Jessica Long
America’s Second-Most Decorated Paralympian // Four-Time ESPY Winner
SPORT
Para Swimming
HOMETOWN
Baltimore, Maryland
CURRENT RESIDENCE
Baltimore, Maryland
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HIGHLIGHTS
- America’s second-most decorated Paralympian
- 5x Paralympian (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020)
- 16x Paralympic champion (2020: 100m butterfly, 200m IM, 4x100m medley relay; 2016: 200m IM; 2012: 100m freestyle, 100m breaststroke, 100m butterfly, 200m IM, 400m freestyle; 2008: 100m freestyle, 100m butterfly, 200m IM, 400m freestyle; 2004: 100m freestyle, 400m freestyle, 34 pt. 4x100m freestyle)
- 29x-time Paralympic medalist (16 gold, 8 silver, 5 bronze)
- 52x world championship medalist (thirty five golds, fifteen silvers, two bronzes)
- Adopted from a Russian orphanage
- Born with fibular hemimelia, and at 18 months old her legs were amputated below the knees
- Four-time ESPY winner
- 77th AAU James E. Sullivan Award winner
- Emmy’s Presenter
