Sydney Barta
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Born | February 16, 2004 | ||||||||||||||
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Country | Paralympic athletics | ||||||||||||||
Disability class | T64 | ||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 100 metres 200 metres | ||||||||||||||
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Sydney Barta (born February 16, 2004) is an American
Career
Barta was born and grew up in
Barta won gold in the 100, 200 and 400 metres at the 2019 World Para Athletics Junior Championships in Switzerland and her performance in this championship landed her a place in the Parapan American Games in Lima, Peru, where she won gold in the 200 metres.[3][5] Barta competed in the World Para Athletics Championships in 2019 where she entered three events finishing 7th in the shot put T64, 4th in the 200 metres T64 and 9th in the discus throw T64.[4] In the 2020 Paralympic Games, Barta qualified for the 200 metres final where she narrowly missed out on a medal, finishing 4th behind Kimberly Alkemade of the Netherlands.[2]
Education
Barta is a high school graduate of The National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C. She now attends Stanford University, and is in her second year concentrating in bioengineering and human biology. In 2023, she completed summer research on gait analysis as a Wu Tsai scholar with a prominent orthopaedic surgeon at Stanford, while training for the 2023 Para Panamerican Games in Santiago, Chile where she won gold in the 200 meters, T64.
References
- ^ a b "2019 U.S. PARALYMPICS TRACK & FIELD HIGH SCHOOL ALL-AMERICANS ANNOUNCED". TEAM USA. October 22, 2019. Retrieved March 20, 2022.
- ^ a b "Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Results". Retrieved March 20, 2022.
- ^ a b c d e Hill, Glynn A. (September 1, 2021). "An accident at the Marine Corps Marathon took her foot. Now she's sprinting at the Paralympics". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 20, 2022.
- ^ a b "SYDNEY BARTA". TEAM USA. 2021. Archived from the original on June 25, 2021. Retrieved March 20, 2022.
- ^ "After a horrific injury as a child, hear how a para runner is earning world recognition". WJLA. October 30, 2019. Retrieved March 20, 2022.