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LeAnn Shannon
American wheelchair racer
LeAnn Shannon (born 1982) is a former American Paralympic athlete who competed in wheelchair racing events at international track and field competitions. She was the youngest Paralympic champion from the United States at the 1996 Summer Paralympics where she won three golds and one silver at the age of fourteen including breaking two world records, she had also competed at 1996 Summer Olympics in the 800m wheelchair demonstration event. She was paralysed in a car accident when she was less than one year old.[1][2][3]
Shannon attended Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University, she is studying radiology at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. She was the first person in her family to graduate with a Doctor of Medicine degree.[4]