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Alexa Halko

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Halko started out in parasports at the age of seven after being approached at a farmer's market by a member of the Greater Oklahoma Disabled Sports Association. She had never used a wheelchair prior but uses one to race. Classified as a T34 athlete, she entered her first senior competition in 2015,
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in Rio, where she won a bronze and two silver medals for her country, and followed this with a second bronze five years later at the
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in Rio, where at the age of 16 she was the youngest member of the American track and field team. In her first race, the
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by one hundredth of a second to take the bronze medal. She took her second medal a few days later with a silver in the
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The following year Halko travelled to London to compete in her second
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Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
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Paralympic track and field athletes for the United States
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Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
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sprint and middle-distance events. She competed at the
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Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
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Index

United States
Midwest City, Oklahoma
Disability class
T34
Paralympic finals
2016
para-athletics
United States
Summer Paralympics
2016 Rio
400 m – T34
2016 Rio
800 m – T34
2016 Rio
100 m – T34
2020 Tokyo
800 m T34
IPC World Championships
2015 Doha
100m - T34
2015 Doha
400m - T34
2015 Doha
800m - T34
2017 London
400 m T34
2017 London
800 m T34
2017 London
100 m T34

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