FACES IN THE CROWD

Tucker Dupree | Raleigh | Swimming

Dupree, 27, set American and Pan American records in the S12 50-meter freestyle at team trials in July (24.03). A three-time medalist in London (silver in the 100 back and bronze in the 100 and 50 free), he is the world-record holder in the 50 backstroke (28.07) and 100 fly (58.29). Dupree lost most of his vision when he was 17.

Shelby Baron | Honolulu | Wheelchair Tennis

Baron, a junior at Alabama, won gold in doubles with partner Marianne Page of Payson, Utah, at the Arizona Open last January and made it to the singles and doubles finals at the Indian Wells (Calif.) Tennis Garden Championship later that month. Born with spina bifida, Baron is No. 4 in the U.S. rankings and No. 52 in the world. This is her Paralympic debut.

Hunter Woodhall | Syracuse, Utah | Track and Field

Hunter, a senior at Syracuse High, ran the 400 meters in 47.63 to win the Class 5A state title against able-bodied runners in May. At the 2015 IPC worlds he took silver in the 400 and bronze in the 200. This is the first Paralympics for Hunter, who was born without fully formed fibulae and had both legs amputated below the knee at 11 months old.

Alexa Halko | Williamsburg, Va. | Track and Field

Alexa, a junior at Jamestown High who has cerebral palsy and races in a wheelchair, became the youngest American to qualify for Rio when she broke her own T34 world record by .91 of a second in the 800 meters at the U.S. trials in July, finishing in 2:01.83. The 16-year-old also won silver in the 100 and 400 at the 2015 IPC worlds.

Ahmed Shafik | Tucson | Powerlifting

Shafik, 42, who contracted polio as an infant and competes in the 80-kg division (176 pounds), won bronze at an IPC World Cup event in Rio with a 178-kg bench press lift (392.4 pounds). He competed for Iraq before fleeing and eventually receiving refugee status in the U.S. in 2000. Shafik served as a translator for the U.S. Army in Iraq from '07 to '10.

April Holmes | Kissimmee, Fla. | Track and Field

Holmes, 43, won the T44 class 200 meters (28.29) and placed second in the 100 (13.60) to qualify for her fourth Paralympics. She earned long jump bronze in Athens, 100 gold in Beijing and 100 bronze in London. A sprinter and jumper at Norfolk (Va.) State from 1992 to '96, she lost her left leg below the knee after a train accident in 2001.

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