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GOLD
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5'0"
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Downers Grove, IL
Washington University St. Louis
Classification: PTWC
Kendall Gretsch was born in Downers Grove, Illinois, with spina bifida. She played multiple sports as a child, including swimming, rock climbing, softball and basketball.
Gretsch became involved in triathlon after her sophomore year of college and won three consecutive world championships from 2014 to 2016. After her triathlon classification was not selected for Paralympic Games Rio 2016, Gretsch considered picking up a winter sport and settled on Para Nordic skiing.
Gretsch made her Paralympic debut as a winter-sport athlete, winning two gold medals in Nordic skiing at the Paralympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018. Three years later, at the postponed Paralympics Tokyo 2020, she won gold in the women’s Paratriathlon, becoming just the fifth American to ever win gold at both the summer and winter Paralympic Games.
PARIS – The Seine River proved inviting to Hailey Danz and seven American teammates, all of whom medaled across 11 paratriathlon events on a gorgeous Monday at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.Delivering a dominant performance in the 20-kilometer bike d...
U.S. women (and one mixed team) shined in 2023 with world titles, record-breaking performances and some notable firsts.
Kendall Gretsch discusses her beginnings in Para nordic skiing.
Kendall Gretsch competes in the women's 12.5-kilometer biathlon sitting event at the Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. Video supplied by International Paralympic Committee.
Kendall Gretsch competes and wins the gold medal during the women's 6-kilometer biathlon sitting event during the Par...
Jake Adicoff was a high school senior when he attended his first Paralympic Winter Games in 2014. In the mountains above Sochi, Russia, he came close to winning medals, finishing sixth in the men’s 20-kilometer freestyle race in the visually impaired c...
On any given day, you might find Sydney Peterson gliding across a snowy mountain trail before the sun comes up — and then peering under a microscope by midmorning. Equal parts endurance athlete and budding neuroscientist, she somehow balances elite-lev...
Paratriathlete Hailey Danz reflects on her gold-medal moment from Paris 2024.
PARIS – The Seine River proved inviting to Hailey Danz and seven American teammates, all of whom medaled across 11 paratriathlon events on a gorgeous Monday at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.Delivering a dominant performance in the 20-kilometer bike d...
The paratriathlon gold medalist heads into the Paralympic year with a No. 1 ranking and loads of confidence.
