US EditionMeet the Select Group of Paralympians Who Compete in Both Summer and Winter Games
Oksana Masters faces year-round training and high costs for custom adaptive gear, with Paralympians often underfunded compared to Olympic athletes, IPC reports about 120 dual-season competitors.
- Entering her eighth Paralympics, Oksana Masters, the most decorated American Winter Paralympian, has won 14 Winter medals and five Summer medals, since competing in both Summer and Winter Games from London 2012.
- Because athletes must master different skills, Masters says transitioning between sports on a two‑year cycle of the Summer and Winter Games is demanding, involving complex conditioning shifts.
- Custom adaptive equipment is costly: hand cycles range from 20,000 to 50,000 euros, and she says she still self-funds much of her career.
- Masters warned that without a true offseason, paralympic athletes face higher overuse-injury risks and struggle to peak in both summer and winter within one year.
- Beyond Masters, athletes such as Kendall Gretsch, Andrea Eskau, Heinz Frei, Reinhild Müller, and Candace Cable illustrate the rare multi‑sport Paralympic tradition, with about 20 athletes competing in both Summer and Winter Games according to the IPC.
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Double duty: Masters and select group of Paralympians compete in both
Oksana Masters, the most decorated American Winter Paralympian, is part of a select group of multi-sport athletes who have been competing both in the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games, having to master different skills to succeed in entirely different disciplines every two years. In the last two decades or so, there have been some 120 athletes participating in both the Summer and Winter Paralympics, according to the International Paralympic Com…
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Double duty: Masters and select group of Paralympians compete in both Summer and Winter Games
Oksana Masters is the most decorated American Winter Paralympian and is part of a select group of multi-sport athletes who have been competing in both the Summer and Winter Paralympic Games, having to master different skills to succeed in entirely different disciplines every two years.
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Meet the select group of Paralympians who compete in both Summer and Winter Games
Oksana Masters is the most decorated American Winter Paralympian and is part of a select group of multi-sport athletes who compete in the Summer and Winter Games.
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