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| show-medals = yes }} Rudy Garcia-Tolson (born 1988) is a Paralympic swimmer, runner and triathlete from the USA. He was born with popliteal pterygium syndrome, resulting in a club foot, webbed fingers on both hands, a cleft lip and palate and the inability to straighten his legs. As a 5 year old wheelchair user, after 15 operations, he decided he would rather be a double amputee and walk with prosthetics. He had both legs removed above the knee.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lee Gruenfeld profiles the amazing Rudy Garcia-Tolson )〕 ==Swimming== Garcia-Tolson started swimming at age 6. When he was eight years old, he stated that he would swim in the 2004 Paralympic Games.〔 He was true to his word and won the gold medal in the 200 meter individual medley and broke the world record for his SM7 class.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ATHENS 2004 Paralympic Games-Swimming-Men's 200 m Individual Medley SM7 )〕 In 2008 Beijing Paralympics, when he was 20, he again won the gold medal in the 200 meter Individual Medley event, breaking his own SM7 world record twice in the process.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games - Swimming - Men's 200 m Individual Medley SM7 )〕 He also won bronze medal in 100m breaststroke SB7. At the 2012 Paralympics in London, he broke the SM7 world record in 200 meter Individual Medley heat. In the final, both he and Yevheniy Bohodayko swam faster still. Bohodayko touched the wall first; Garcia-Tolson won silver.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=London 2012 Paralympic Games - Swimming - Men's 200 m Individual Medley SM7 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rudy Garcia-Tolson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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