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UPDATE: Anjali Forber-Pratt Makes U.S. Paralympic Track & Field Team …Sets Sights on Gold Medals at London 2012 Paralympic Games
Wheelchair sprinter Anjali Forber-Pratt heads for London as a member the 2012 U. S. Paralympic team after winning her spot at the trials in Indianapolis this weekend. As a former world record holder and a bronze medalist from the Beijing Paralympic Games, Forber-Pratt is in contention for multiple medals at the London 2012 Paralympic Games. She will compete in the 100m, 200m and 400m.
The Paralympic Games are, for Forber-Pratt, the top competition on the world stage with the best of the best competing for medals. Having won bronze medals in the women’s 400m T53 and in the women’s 4x100m T53/54 relay at the Beijing Games, Forber-Pratt has trained hard with her teammates at the University of Illinois. Since the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, she has spent countless hours lifting weights early in the morning at Illinois’ Urbana-Champaign campus, endured two-a-day sessions in the summer, and sweated through six-training-day regimens almost every week. Her hard work and dedication to excellence has made Forber-Pratt one of the best wheelchair racers in the world.
“I’m thrilled for this tremendous honor to again represent my country. I am grateful especially to my coach Adam Bleakney for believing in me and guiding me along the way, and to my other fans, friends, supporters and sponsors. I could not do it without you all, thank you!” Forber-Pratt said.
THE LATEST VIDEOS on Anjali Forber-Pratt -
ABC - Chicago - Anjali Makes Team USA and is London Bound for The 2012 Paralympic Games - http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news%2Fdisability_issues&id=8719268
CBS/NBC Denver on Anjali with Brad Humphrey (injured in Sugarland stage collapse 2011 in Indianapolis)
http://denver.cbslocal.com/video/?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=652261
NBC 5 News - Chicago: Feature Interview with Anjali Forber-Pratt: http://youtu.be/INrmOTzhly4
(Denver, CO – December 4, 2011)The 23rd annual The Hartford Ski Spectacular, an event of Disabled Sports USA (DSUSA), takes place December 4 – 11, 2011 at the Breckenridge Ski Resort and the Beaver Run Lodge. The five-day event, sponsored by The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., the founding partner of U.S. Paralympics, is the nation’s largest winter sports festival for those with physical disabilities, planning to bring more than 800 participants ranging in ability from first-time skiers to members of the U.S. Adaptive Ski Team (USAST). This is also a signature event for wounded warriors who want to pursue skiing and competitive skiing. Paralympic Champion Anjali Forber-Pratt joins the hundreds of skiers and riders from around the country enjoying a week of skiing and riding, as well as ongoing clinics and races. Although she is a former World Record Holder in the 200m in Wheelchair Racing, Forber-Pratt’s role at Breckenridge is to mentor athletes in her winter sport – downhill skiing.
Born in Calcutta, India, Forber-Pratt was adopted moving to Natick, Massachusetts. However, two months after arriving in the United States, she contracted transverse myelitis, a neurological disorder that affects the spinal cord and left her paralyzed from the waist down. What some people might view as a tragedy, Forber-Pratt would come to view as a positive life altering event.
“I was exposed to a variety of sports at an early age, but took a strong liking to track, and by time I turned nine was competing at the national level in track and field. Following a crash in a road race where I broke both wrists, I endured a forced hiatus from wheelchair racing. But, I refused to give up competitive sports. I switched to downhill skiing, which was less intensive on my wrists.”
One of the athletes Forber-Pratt is to mentor is Brad Humphrey who was injured in the stage collapse at the Sugarland concert in Indianapolis earlier this year. A competitive tennis player prior to his accident, this will be the first time attending the annual Hartford Ski Spectacular. Forber-Pratt hopes to show him changing from one sport, able bodied or not, to another is possible.
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