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“Just two years after making her debut on the para swimming circuit, UNI senior Olivia Chambers ascended to the top of the Paralympic world on Saturday as she captured gold in the women's S13 400-meter freestyle in front of a raucous crowd at La Defense Arena.
Chambers, a Little Rock, Arkansas native who is legally blind due to multiple mitochondrial gene deletion syndrome, becomes UNI's first-ever Paralympic medalist and also joins elite company as the first UNI athlete to earn an Olympic or Paralympic medal since Bill Smith's 1952 Olympic gold medal performance in wrestling at the summer games in Helsinki, Finland.”
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Chambers, a Little Rock, Arkansas native who is legally blind due to multiple mitochondrial gene deletion syndrome, becomes UNI's first-ever Paralympic medalist and also joins elite company as the first UNI athlete to earn an Olympic or Paralympic medal since Bill Smith's 1952 Olympic gold medal performance in wrestling at the summer games in Helsinki, Finland.”
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