Oksana Masters of the United States, who participated in the Paralympics for the fifth time in summer and winter, won the first gold medal in the summer tournament with the ninth medal in the hand cycle class of the women's individual road time trial of bicycles. I got it.
According to the official website of Masters, Masters was born in Ukraine in 1989 after the accident at the former Soviet Chernobyl nuclear power plant and moved to the United States at the age of seven as the adopted daughter of an American woman.
Since I was born, I had a disability with different leg lengths and couldn't support the weight I gained as I grew up, so I had surgery to amputate one leg at the age of 9 and 14.
He started boating at the age of 13 and made his first appearance at the Paralympics at the London 2012 Summer Games, which he reached at the age of 23, and won the bronze medal.
After that, he also worked on skiing and won silver and bronze medals in cross-country skiing at the 2014 winter Sochi competition, which he participated in more than a year after starting the competition, and became a medalist in both summer and winter competitions.
In addition to the two gold medals in cross-country skiing, he also won a medal in Biathlon at the 2018 Winter Pyeongchang Tournament.
This bike will be his first gold medal in the summer tournament, following the 2016 summer Rio de Janeiro tournament.
The Masters won a total of nine medals, three each for gold, silver and bronze in summer and winter.