Background
Marianna was born in Sun Valley, Idaho on December 1, 1972.
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Marianna Davis
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She continued to compete and also graduated from Stanford University in 1995.
Career
She was a keen skier and an accident when she was sixteen years old left her paralysed from the chest down. Davis has travelled widely and competed in a number of disciplines. In 2002 she was in a team of four disabled climbers who reached the summit of the 14,179 feet (4,322 m) Mount Shasta in California.
Davis was the first female paraplegic to climb a peak over 14,000 feet.
The journey was possible by using a Snowpod which is a hand cranked tracked snowmobile devised by Pete Rieke. In 2010 she added three more silver medals to her collection for participation at Paracycling World.
On September 7, 2012 she was awarded three gold medals at 2012 Summer Paralympics for individual H1-3 road race, H1-4 team relay, and H1-2 individual time trial.
Achievements
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She won one bronze medal for handcycling in 1998 in Nagano, Japan. In 2000 she was the World Champion at Giant Slalom in Anzere, Switzerland. Davis won three silver medals competing in the 2002 Winter Paralympics in Salt Lake City, Utah for the same sport. Besides medals she was also awarded Endurance Sports Disabled Athlete of the Year in 2002 and International Olympic Committee Presidents Disable Athlete Award in 2004. In August 2013, Davis won two more Gold medals for hand-cycling at the Para-Cycling World Championships in Baie-Comeau.
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