Trischa Zorn - Paralympics legend
Full name
Trischa Zorn
Date of Birth
01/06/1964
Country:
USA
Disciplines
  • 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 400m freestyle, 100m backstroke, 200m backstroke, 100m butterfly, 200m IM, 400m IM (S12, SB12, SM12)
Paralympic Games
2004 Athens
  • Bronze 100m backstroke
2000 Sydney
  • Silver 100m backstroke
  • Silver 100m breaststroke
  • Silver 100m butterfly
  • Silver 200m individual medley
  • Bronze 50m breaststroke
1996 Atlanta
  • Gold 100m backstroke
  • Gold 100m 200m individual medley
  • Silver 50m freestyle
  • Silver 400m freestyle
  • Silver 4x100 medley relay
  • Bronze 100m breaststroke
  • Bronze 100m freestyle
1992 Barcelona
  • Gold 50m freestyle
  • Gold 100m freestyle
  • Gold 100m backstroke
  • Gold 200m backstroke
  • Gold 100m breaststroke
  • Gold 200m breaststroke
  • Gold 200m individual medley
  • Gold 400m individual medley
  • Gold 4x100m freestyle relay
  • Gold 4x100m medley relay
  • Silver 100m butterfly
  • Silver 400m freestyle
1988 Seoul
  • Gold 50m freestyle
  • Gold 100m freestyle
  • Gold 400m freestyle
  • Gold 100m backstroke
  • Gold 50m breaststroke
  • Gold 100m breaststroke
  • Gold 200m breaststroke
  • Gold 100m butterfly
  • Gold 200m individual medley
  • Gold 400m individual medley
  • Gold 4x100m freestyle relay
  • Gold 4x100m medley relay
1984 New York
  • Gold 100m freestyle
  • Gold 100m backstroke
  • Gold 100m butterfly
  • Gold 200m individual medley
  • Gold 400m individual medley
  • Gold 4x100m medley relay
1980 Arnhem
  • Gold 100m freestyle
  • Gold 100m backstroke
  • Gold 100m butterfly
  • Gold 200m individual medley
  • Gold 400m individual medley
  • Gold 4x100m freestyle relay
  • Gold 4x100m medley relay
Biography

Trischa Zorn is the most decorated Paralympian of all time, collecting 46 medals – 32 of which were gold – across seven Paralympic Games.

Blind from birth, Zorn burst onto the scene as a 16-year-old at the 1980 Paralympic Games in Arnhem, excelling in multiple swimming disciplines on her way to five gold medals.

The American only got better and better as she won ten golds in New York in 1984 and a mammoth haul of twelve in Seoul four years later. A further 25 medals followed between 1992 and 2000 before, as a 40-year-old, Zorn came out of retirement for one last Games in Athens where she picked up a bronze.