Manuela Schär

Manuela Schär (born December 5, 1984) is a paralympic athlete from Switzerland, competing mainly in category T54 sprint events. She has used a wheelchair since the age of 8, when a playground accident paralyzed her from the waist down. ^[1]

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Schär competed in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece. There she won a silver medal in the women's 200 meters (T54 event), bronze in the women's 100 meters (T54 event), and finished sixth in the women's 400 meters (T54 event). At the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China, she won bronze in the women's 200 meters (T54) event, finishing fourth in the 100 meters and sixth again in the women's 400 meters. She competed again in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where her best results were two fifth places.

In 2017, she won the women's wheelchair category of the 121st Boston Marathon and the 37th London Marathon. In 2018, she won the women's wheelchair category of the 2018 Chicago Marathon and the 2018 TCS New York City Marathon. In 2019, she won all six World Marathon Majors (Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York^[2]).

In 2021, she won the women's wheelchair race at the 2021 Berlin Marathon, the 2021 London Marathon, and the 2021 Boston Marathon.

In 2022, she won the women's wheelchair race at the 2022 Boston Marathon.

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