She's the fourth U.S. woman to accomplish this feat.
is a sport class for physical impairment.) The win marks nine total Paralympic medals for the multi-sport athlete: The 32-year-old has medaled in rowing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, and now road cycling.
Then when she was 13, she tried rowing and found it gave her “a new sense of freedom and control,” as she explained on her website. She went on to win a bronze medal at the 2012 London Paralympic Games with her rowing partner Rob Jones; the pair earned the first-ever U.S. medal in trunk and arms mixed double sculls, according toNext, she picked up skiing, and brought home two medals in Nordic skiing from the 2014 Sochi Paralympic Games.
"The day after I crossed the finish line in Rio 2016 in fifth place...I knew exactly what I wish I did. I knew what I did wrong and I wanted to fix it,” Masters said after her win in Tokyo, according to. "To know that I fixed my wrongs from Rio and that I’m growing as a cyclist. This is unbelievable."
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