Paola Fantato
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| Born | 14 September 1959 Verona,Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Italy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Archery Paralympic archery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Paola Fantato(13 September 1959) is an Italian formerarcher,who won 8 medals (5 gold) at theSummer Paralympics.
She participated also in the1996 Summer Olympics.[1]
Biography
[edit]At age 8 she contractedpoliomyelitis,and has been awheelchairuser ever since.[2]She competed in archery at five consecutiveSummer Paralympic Gamesfrom 1988 to 2004 and won a total of five gold medals, one silver, and two bronzes. She participated in both the1996 Summer OlympicsandParalympics,taking a bronze medal in women's individual and a gold in women's team at the Paralympic Games. She won gold medals in both the individual and team events forarchery at the 2000 Summer Paralympics,and took gold and silver at the2004 Paralympics.[3]
See also
[edit]- List of athletes who have competed in the Paralympics and Olympics
- Italian multiple medallists at the Summer Paralympics
- Walk of Fame of Italian Sport
References
[edit]- ^"Memoria paralimpica - Paola Fantato".youtube.com(in Italian). 5 September 2016.Retrieved7 September2021.
- ^"Paola Fantato".sports-reference.com.Archived fromthe originalon 18 April 2020.Retrieved30 August2012.
- ^"PAOLA FANTATO NELLA WALK OF FAME CONI".arcosenzabarriere.it(in Italian). 11 May 2015.Retrieved7 September2021.
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Categories:
- 1959 births
- Living people
- Italian female archers
- Olympic archers for Italy
- Paralympic archers for Italy
- Paralympic gold medalists for Italy
- Paralympic silver medalists for Italy
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Italy
- Paralympic medalists in archery
- Archers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Archers at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
- Archers at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Archers at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Archers at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Archers at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- 20th-century Italian women
- Sportspeople from Verona