Elizabeth Marks

Elizabeth Marks
Marks in 2016
Personal information
Nickname(s) Ellie
Born (1990-08-07) August 7, 1990
Prescott Valley, Arizona, U.S.
Height 5’5”
Weight 115
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
Medal record
Representing the  United States
Paralympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m breaststroke SB7
2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m medley 34pts

Elizabeth Marks (born August 7, 1990) is an American Paralympic breaststroke swimmer who specializes in the 100 m distance. She won a gold medal at the 2015 Military World Games and four gold medals at the 2016 Invictus Games, and donated one of her Invictus gold medals to the Games founder Prince Harry. She qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics by clocking a time of with 1:28.54 at the U.S. trials, which was only 0.01 seconds short of the world record.[1] She won an individual gold and a relay bronze medal at the Paralympics.[2]

Marks joined the U.S. Army in July 2008 and earned military occupational specialty 68W, Health Care Specialist. While deployed in Iraq in 2010 she suffered bilateral hip injuries that left her disabled; she has a tattoo over most of her right leg. Later in 2014, during the 2014 Invictus Games, she contracted a severe respiratory infection, which forced doctors at Papworth Hospital to place her in a medically induced coma for one month.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Elizabeth Marks. armymwr.com
  2. ↑ Elizabeth Marks Archived 23 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine.. rio2016.com
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