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| Full name | Jerome Singleton Jr. | |||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Fastest amputee on the planet (2011) | |||||||||||||||
| Born | July 7, 1986 Irmo, South Carolina |
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| Residence | Greenwood, South Carolina | |||||||||||||||
| Website | profile on paralympic.org | |||||||||||||||
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| Country | USA | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and field | |||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 100m, 200m, 4x10m | |||||||||||||||
| Club | Paralympic Track & Field Resident Team (Olympic Training Center) | |||||||||||||||
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Jerome Singleton (born July 7, 1986) is a Paralympic athlete from the United States competing mainly in category T44 (single below knee amputation) sprint events.
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Born without a fibula in his right leg due to fibular hemimelia, doctors amputated his leg below the knee when he was 18 months old. He graduated from Dutch Fork High School (Irmo, S.C.) in 2004 where he was a member of varsity football and track teams and played junior varsity basketball for two years and was ranked one of the top 100 Senior Football Prospects in South Carolina by the High School Sports Report.[1]
Singleton attended Morehouse College, where he double majored in Mathematics and Applied Physics. He has participated in track and field for three years at the college level. He now attends the University of Michigan to complete his dual degree with Morehouse, adding an industrial engineering degree to his studies. Singleton also has focused a large portion of his time in research in the U.S. and abroad.
Singleton’s first internship in 2005 was at NASA Gleen Research Center, where he worked on the Oil-Free Turbomachinery project that would be implemented in aiding the Mars Landing, as well as was given the opportunity to help update a SIV (Stereo Imaging Vescroscopy) System that was being used for the early detection of cataracts.
One of Singleton’s most memorable summers came in 2007 where Singleton pushed his limits. During this summer Singleton did research at CERN/ European Organization for Nuclear Physics in Geneva, Switzerland on High Energy Particle Physics through Yale University. He returned to the US just 2 days prior to the Paralympic National Championship in Atlanta, GA where he earned a position on the Paralympic National Team. He would be competing in Rio de Janiero, Brazil in the Parapan Am Games.
Before the games Singleton left for his 2nd research experience at the IAS/ Park City Math Institute in Park City, Utah. Here he took courses in discrete probability and mathematical physics; as well as delved into the applications of Brownian Motion. Finishing this research project he was off to Rio de Janiero to compete in the Parapan Am Games. He won a Silver Medal in the 200m and a Bronze Medal in the 100m.[2]
In 2007, Singleton broke onto the Paralympic track & field scene by winning the bronze medal in the 100m (T44), and the silver medal in the 200m (T44) at the Parapan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Then, at the 2008 Paralympic Games, Singleton turned in an impressive performance, winning a silver medal in the 100m T44 and helping the U.S. to a gold medal in the 4x100m relay.[3]
He competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. There he won a gold medal in the men's 4 x 100 metre relay - T42-46 event and a silver medal in the men's 100 metres - T44 event.
In 2011, Jerome Singleton was given the nickname of Fastest amputee on the planet. Which is the new title Jerome Singleton secured when he knocked off reigning champion Oscar Pistorius (South Africa) to win gold in the men's 100m (T44) at the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand.[3]
Currently, Singleton training for the 2012 Paralympic Games in London where he hopes to win more medals.
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