Meet the Latter-day Saint Paralympians Competing in Tokyo

  
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By Christine Rappleye, Church News

Updated Tuesday, September 7, 2021

With the Paralympic Games opening on August 24 — after a one-year pandemic delay — the competition of 539 events across 22 sports at 21 venues will begin.

The Paralympic Games have roots in the London Olympic Games in 1948 with the first competition for wheelchair athletes — 16 injured servicemen and servicewomen — in archery. The Stoke Mandeville Games became the Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome, Italy, according to paralympic.org. 

A dozen athletes connected to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are among those competing at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. Learn more on Church News.

Church News Meet the Latter-day Saint Paralympians competing in Tokyo

Church News Latter-day Saints in the Paralympics, days 1 & 2: Wins in wheelchair rugby and goalball, plus fencing bouts

Church News Latter-day Saints in the Paralympics, day 3: Wheelchair rugby, sitting volleyball, goalball, archery and fencing

Church News Latter-day Saints in the Paralympics, days 4 & 5: Gold in track, silver in wheelchair rugby and making history in swimming

Church News Latter-day Saints in the Paralympics, days 6 & 7: Gold in swimming, plus updates in goalball, track and shot put

Church News Latter-day Saints in the Paralympics, days 8 & 9: Sitting volleyball and goalball teams to compete for medals, plus updates in swimming, track and discus

Church News Latter-day Saints in the Paralympics, day 10: Sitting volleyball team to compete for bronze, plus updates in goalball, archery and swimming

Church News Latter-day Saints in the Paralympics, day 11: Sitting volleyball and archery

Church News Latter-day Saints in the Paralympics: 3 medals, plus records made in Tokyo

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