Paralympic gold medalist Paige Greco dead at 28 after 'experiencing a sudden medical episode'

Paige Greco, an Australian Paralympian who won a golden medal astatine the Tokyo Games successful a cycling event, has died, officials said Sunday. She was 28.

The Australian Paralympic Committee and Cycling Australia said that Greco "passed distant successful her Adelaide location aft experiencing a abrupt aesculapian episode."

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Paige Greco of Australia holds her golden medal aft winning the Cycling Track Women's C1-3 3000m Individual Pursuit astatine the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021, successful Izu, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File)

"Paige meant everything to us," her parent Natalie Greco said." Her kindness, her determination and her warmth touched our household each azygous day. She brought truthful overmuch joyousness and pridefulness into our lives, and the symptom of her passing is thing we volition transportation forever.

"While we are devastated by her loss, we are incredibly arrogant of the idiosyncratic she was and the mode she represented Australia."

Greco was calved with cerebral palsy. She competed for Australia successful the Tokyo Paralympics that took spot successful 2021. She won a golden medal successful the women’s C1-3 3,000-meter idiosyncratic pursuit, breaking her ain satellite record.

Paige Greco of Australia competes connected her mode to winning the golden medal for the Cycling Track Women's C1-3 3000m Individual Pursuit astatine the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021, successful Izu, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, File)

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She besides picked up bronze medals successful the roadworthy contention and clip trial.

"The sadness being felt crossed Paralympics Australia contiguous is simply a reflection of the tremendous respect successful which she was held," Cameron Murray, the Chief Executive Officer of Paralympics Australia, added successful a statement. "Paige was an bonzer athlete, but much importantly, a singular person.

"Her achievements connected the planetary signifier were exceptional, but it was her kindness, her quiescent determination and the mode she uplifted radical astir her that volition enactment with america all. She had a uncommon quality to marque radical consciousness included and supported, and her power volition nary uncertainty permission a lasting content connected truthful many."

Bronze medalist Paige Greco of Australia celebrates connected the podium astatine the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. (REUTERS/Lisi Niesner)

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Greco had golden medals successful the way satellite championships and the roadworthy satellite championships. She raced and won a bronze medal successful the 2025 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships successful Ronse, Belgium, which took spot successful August.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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