First Olympic and Paralympic medallist

Only one athlete has won medals at both the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Fencer Pál Szekeres (Hungary) won a bronze medal in the men’s team foil at the Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, in 1988 and, after being injured in a bus accident in 1991, he took up wheelchair fencing and won gold medals in the individual foil in Barcelona, Spain, in 1992 and in the individual foil and individual sabre in Atlanta, USA, in 1996. Szekeres also won three bronze medals as a Paralympian, in the individual foil at Sydney 2000 and Beijing 2008 and in the individual sabre at Athens 2004.

Scottish track cyclist Craig Maclean is to date the only other athlete who can claim medals at both the Summer Olympics and the Paralympics. Maclean won a silver in the Team Sprint representing the UK at the 2000 Olympic Games, before earning a gold medal as a sighted pilot for Anthony Kappes (UK) in the Tandem B Sprint at the 2012 Paralympics