Ryan Medrano
| File:Ryan Medrano 2024 Paralympic Games.jpg Medrano at the 2024 Paralympic Games | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | File:Flag of the United States.svg United States |
| Born | August 26, 1997 Savannah, Georgia, U.S. |
| Height | 6'0 |
| Weight | 195 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Para-athletics |
| Disability class | T38 |
Event(s) | 100 metres 400 metres Long jump |
Medal record | |
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Ryan Medrano (born August 26, 1997) is an American Paralympian track and field athlete. He represented the United States at the 2024 Summer Paralympics where he won two silver medals. Additionally he is a Parapan American Games gold medalist and a World Para Athletics Championships silver medalist. He competed on the 43rd season of Survivor.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Medrano was born three months early, which resulted in fluid in the cerebellum of his brain. Additionally he was born with cerebral palsy.[1]
Survivor
[edit | edit source]In fall of 2022 Medrano appeared on the 43rd season of Survivor. He was voted off on day 17 and was the third member of the jury.[2] While competing on the show he met 2020 Paralympic athlete Noelle Lambert, who informed him that cerebral palsy was a recognized disability sport classification and he could compete internationally as a para-athlete.[3][4]
Para athletic career
[edit | edit source]Medrano began para athletic training in December of 2022.[4] In July of 2023 Medrano competed at his first World Championships, finishing fifth in the 400 metres and seventh in the long jump.[5] In November he competed at the 2023 Parapan American Games. While there he won gold in the 100 metres and 400 metres.[6]
Medrano competed at the 2024 World Para Athletics Championships in Kobe, Japan, where he won silver in the 400 metres behind fellow American Jaydin Blackwell.[7] He qualified to compete at the 2024 Paralympic Games.[8] He ended up winning silver in 100 metres and 400 metres, once again behind Blackwell in both.[9]
At the 2025 World Championships held in New Delhi, Medrano won silver in the 100 metres, once again behind Blackwell, placed fourth in the 400 metres, and fifth in the long jump.[10]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Ryan Medrano at World AthleticsLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- Ryan Medrano at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympics (alternate link, alternate link 2)
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- 1997 births
- Living people
- Track and field athletes from Georgia (U.S. state)
- Track and field athletes from Texas
- Paralympic track and field athletes for the United States
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic silver medalists for the United States
- Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- 21st-century American sportsmen
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 Parapan American Games
- Medalists at the 2023 Parapan American Games
- Parapan American Games gold medalists for the United States
- Parapan American Games bronze medalists for the United States
- Parapan American Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Sportspeople from Savannah, Georgia