Riding High, Para-Cycling Sam Bosco Is Aiming To Stay There In 2023
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Athlete Bio
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Height
5'8"
Birthday
Feb 17, 1987
Hometown
Claremont, CA
Education
DeVry University
classification: WC4
Personal
- Born with a posteromedial bow of the right tibia and a calcaneal valgus foot that was corrected at the age of four by having a wedge of bone surgically removed.
- Was six years old when she first got on a bike, riding to and from school with her dad.
- Dreamt of becoming a professional mountain bike racer after joining and racing with the Arctic Bicycle Club at nine years old.
- When she was 11, she had a limb-lengthening surgery go awry that left her with years of crutches, atrophied muscles and a surgically stunted left leg.
- When she would go on bike rides with her dad as a kid, he'd give her a quarter for every person on a bike she passed and would only get to keep the quarter if the person didn't pass her back.
- Married to Andrew Bosco, another cyclist whom she met at a bike race in a state neither one of them lived in, and has one brother, Jason.
- Lettered in swimming and bowling in high school and earned a crew scholarship to the University of Central Florida where she rowed for two years.
- Would probably try to own an ice cream shop if she wasn't cycling and still runs outside at the sound of an ice cream truck.
- Uses her experiences as a life-long athlete to be an athlete mentor to classrooms across the country.
Paralympic Experience
- Paralympian (2016); Two-time medalist (2 bronze)
- Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, bronze (road time trial, track pursuit), 6th (road race), 10th (track time trial)
World Championship Experience
- Most recent: 2023 - Track – Bronze (scratch, individual pursuit), Silver (Omnium), 6th (time trial); 2023 - Road - Gold (road race, time trial)
- Years of Participation: Road – 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023; Track – 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023
- Medals: 21 (5 gold, 6 silver, 10 bronze)
- Gold – 2023 (road race, time trial), 2022 (road time trial, road race), 2017 (pursuit)
- Silver – 2023 (omnium), 2022 (individual pursuit, omnium, scratch), 2020 (omnium), 2017 (road time trial)
- Bronze – 2023 (scratch, individual pursuit), 2020 (scratch), 2019 (scratch, pursuit, road race), 2018 (pursuit, scratch), 2014 (road time trial), 2013 (road time trial)