Paola Fantato
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Born | (1959-09-14) 14 September 1959 (age 65) Verona, Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Archery Paralympic archery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paola Fantato (13 September 1959) is an Italian former archer, who won 8 medals (5 gold) at the Summer Paralympics.
She participated also in the 1996 Summer Olympics.[1]
Biography
At age 8 she contracted poliomyelitis, and has been a wheelchair user ever since.[2] She competed in archery at five consecutive Summer Paralympic Games from 1988 to 2004 and won a total of five gold medals, one silver, and two bronzes. She participated in both the 1996 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, taking a bronze medal in women's individual and a gold in women's team at the Paralympic Games. She won gold medals in both the individual and team events for archery at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, and took gold and silver at the 2004 Paralympics.[3]
See also
- List of athletes who have competed in the Paralympics and Olympics
- Italian multiple medallists at the Summer Paralympics
- Walk of Fame of Italian Sport
References
- ^ "Memoria paralimpica - Paola Fantato". youtube.com (in Italian). 5 September 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
- ^ "Paola Fantato". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
- ^ "PAOLA FANTATO NELLA WALK OF FAME CONI". arcosenzabarriere.it (in Italian). 11 May 2015. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
External links
- Paola Fantato at World Archery
- Paola Fantato at Olympics.com
- Paola Fantato at Paralympic.org
- Paola Fantato at Olympedia
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