Women Athletes to Watch at the Beijing Winter Paralympics
11 Women Athletes to Watch at the 2022 Paralympics
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Sport: wheelchair curling
Country: USA
Oyuna Uranchimeg, who is originally from Mongolia, made her world-championship debut in 2021. She will be Team USA's lead on the wheelchair-curling team (note: the lead delivers the first two stones). She began curling in 2016 and will compete in her very first Paralympics in Beijing. She told a journalism student at the University of St. Thomas, where she is employed, that she cried upon finding out she made the Paralympic wheelchair-curling team.