Tatyana McFadden’s career spans seven Paralympic Games — 2004, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2020, and 2024 — a run documented by both Team USA and NYRR, which together credit her with 22 Paralympic medals, 8 of them gold. Few athletes in any discipline have sustained competitive excellence across two decades of Games the way her record shows.
On the road racing circuit, McFadden has been equally dominant, winning 24 Abbott World Marathon Majors races per her NYRR athlete profile. Reporting from ESPN and NBC Sports, along with her own official awards page, credits her with completing the marathon ‘grand slam’ — winning Boston, Chicago, London, and New York City marathons in the same calendar year — in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016, a feat accomplished multiple times over consecutive seasons.
Her path to that record began far from the racing circuit. Born in Leningrad, Soviet Union, with spina bifida, McFadden later attended the University of Illinois on a wheelchair basketball scholarship before shifting her focus to wheelchair track, per her Girl Scouts profile. She now lists Clarksville, Maryland, as her home, according to both NYRR and Wikipedia.
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