- Christina Næss
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Medal record Competitor for Faroe Islands Swimming Paralympic Games Gold 1988 Seoul 100m backstroke C3 Silver 1988 Seoul 400m freestyle C3-4 Christina Naess is a Faroese swimmer. She is the only person ever to have won a gold medal for the Faroe Islands at the Paralympic Games.[1]
Naess represented the Faroe Islands at the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul, competing in two swimming events. She medalled in both, taking gold in the 100 metre backstroke (C3 disability category), and silver in the 400 metre freestyle (C3-4).
She did not compete again at the Paralympic Games.
References
- ^ Faroe Islands at the Paralympics on paralympic.org
External links
- Christina Naess's profile on paralympic.org
Categories:- Paralympic swimmers of the Faroe Islands
- Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for the Faroe Islands
- Paralympic silver medalists for the Faroe Islands
- Faroese swimmers
- Living people
- European sportspeople stubs
- Faroese people stubs
- Faroese sport stubs
- European swimming biography stubs
- Paralympic medalist stubs
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