Hereditary Spastic Paralympians 2024

 As we are coming up to the Paris 2024 Paralympics, I have had a quick look to see if I can find athletes who have HSP.

I started by looking at my post from the Tokyo Paralympics, and pleased to find that all but one of the athletes from there are also appearing in Paris. I have also done a search and found other athletes with HSP who are appearing.

I am busy preparing for the UK HSP Support Group AGM, which is on Saturday. So, this post is a quick list of the people I have found. Most of these athletes seem to have active instagram pages, so that has been my social media link of choice to put here.

Evan Austin (USA) https://www.instagram.com/e_a_swim/ 

Rebecca Hart (USA) https://www.instagram.com/rebeccahart136/ 

Katie Morrow (GB) https://x.com/katiemorrow56 

Jade Atkin (GB) https://www.instagram.com/jadeatkin10/

Roman Polianskyi (Ukraine) https://www.instagram.com/roman_alexandrovi/

Toni Ponce (Spain) https://www.instagram.com/toni_ponce/ 

Laila Suzigan (Brazil) https://www.instagram.com/lailasuzigan/ 

Austin Smeenk (Canada) https://www.instagram.com/austinsmeenk/ 

Dayna Crees (Australia) https://www.instagram.com/daynacrees__/ 

Arianna Talamona (Italy) https://www.instagram.com/talamona94  

Milena Surreau (France) https://www.instagram.com/milena_surreau/ 

Lisa Bergenthal (Germany) https://www.instagram.com/lisa.bthal

Michael Volter (Germany) https://www.instagram.com/michvolt10/

If anyone knows other athletes with HSP in the Paralympics, please let me know!!!

(25th August - Merci to friends in France saying about Milena.)

(30th August - Thanks to friends in UK for saying about Jade, and Danke to friends in Germany for saying about Lisa and Michael)

(1st September - review of schedules shows that Hallie Smith isnt competing this year)