Randy Snow was the first Paralympian to be inducted into the US Olympic Hall of Fame and the first paralympian to win medals in three different sports: track, basketball and tennis.
10 Facts About Randy Snow
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Thomas Randall Snow was the oldest of four children of Alison Lee McElhone, a kindergarten teacher, and Thomas Snow, a real estate attorney.
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Randy Snow was born in Austin, Texas and later his family moved to Terrell, Texas.
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Randy Snow went into heavy training, relocating to Houston, Texas, to train on the same track as Carl Lewis.
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Randy Snow received a silver medal, and the crowd gave the athletes a standing ovation at the end of the exhibition.
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Randy Snow went on to win gold medals in the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona for singles and doubles tennis, and at the 1996 Atlanta Games was a member of the bronze medal-winning wheelchair basketball team.
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Randy Snow competed in men's wheelchair tennis singles at the 2000 Summer Paralympics but lost in the third round to eventual gold medalist David Hall of Australia.
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Randy Snow was inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame on July 1,2004.
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Randy Snow died in El Salvador on November 19,2009, while volunteering at a wheelchair tennis camp.
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Randy Snow was posthumously inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, on July 14,2012.