Navy Lieutenant Swims To Gold In London Paralympics, Months After Injury

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Navy Lieutenant Swims To Gold In London Paralympics, Months After Injury

By Good News Network Saturday, September 01, 2012

Recreation - Sports

Less than one year after being blinded by an explosion in Afghanistan, U.S. swimmer Bradley Snyder has won a gold medal in the men's 100m freestyle at the 2012 Paralympics.

He swam even faster during an earlier heat, setting a Paralympic record with a time of 57.18. To put that time in perspective, it would have put Snyder in first place in one of the early men's 100m freestyle heats at the London Olympics.

(READ the story from NPR News)