.JessicaLong was just 12 when she won her first gold medal at the Paralympic Games. Paralympics
, making her the second-most decorated Paralympian in US history. Her collection includes 13 gold medals, six silver, and four bronze, across a wide variety of swimming events, strokes, and distances.
Long burst onto the scene in Athens in 2004, where she won three gold medals in the 400m freestyle, 100m freestyle, and the 4×100m freestyle relay. Four years later, in Beijing, she doubled her previous medal haul, taking home six medals overall, including four gold medals in the 400m free, 100m free, 100m butterfly, and 200m individual medley; a silver in the 100m backstroke; and a bronze in the 100m breaststroke.
The 2012 London Paralympics would prove to be Long's most dominant Games yet. There she won five gold medals , two silver , and a bronze . Most recently, Long competed in the 2016 Rio Games, where she won gold in the 200m medley; silver in the 400m free, 100m breaststroke, and 4x100m freestyle relay; and bronze in the 100m fly and 100m backstroke., a swimmer who won an awe-inspiring 67 Paralympic medals between 1980 and 2004, 51 of which were gold.
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