Leading Off

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Photograph by Bob Martin

Olympian Effort

At the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens, Ervin Kovacs of Hungary leaves his prostheses on the pool deck and dives in for a 200-meter freestyle heat for swimmers in the S5 category (full use of arms and hands but no trunk or leg muscles). Kovacs would finish fourth in the final.

Photograph by Bob Martin

The Jaws of Victory

Jeffrey Fabry of Tulare, Calif., a Paralympic W1 (tetraplegic) archer, draws the arrow back with a mouth tab while tuning up for the preliminaries of the individual competition, in which he set a world record. Fabry won bronze medals in both the individual and team events.

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It's Not About the Bike

Víctor Màrquez of Venezuela, an LC3 cyclist (disabled in one lower limb), speeds around the Athens velodrome on his single-pedal bike in the final of the Paralympic one-kilometer time trial for categories LC14. He finished 10th.