Elizabeth Marks

Elizabeth Marks

Marks in 2016
Personal information
Born	(1990-08-07) August 7, 1990 Prescott Valley, Arizona, U.S.
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Breaststroke
Medal record Representing the  United States Paralympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m breaststroke SB7 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×100 m medley 34pts

Elizabeth Marks (born August 7, 1990) is an American Paralympic breaststroke swimmer who specializes in the 100 m distance. She won a gold medal at the 2015 Military World Games and four gold medals at the 2016 Invictus Games, and donated one of her Invictus gold medals to the Games founder Prince Harry. She qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics by clocking a time of with 1:28.54 at the U.S. trials, which was only 0.01 seconds short of the world record.^[1] She won an individual gold and a relay bronze medal at the Paralympics.^[2]

Marks graduated from the American Military University as a combat medic and joined the U.S. Army in July 2008. While deployed in Iraq in 2010 she suffered bilateral hip injuries that left her disabled; she has a tattoo over most of her right leg to cover the scars. Later in 2014 she contracted a severe respiratory infection, which forced doctors to place her in a medically induced coma for one month.^[1]

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