By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
One of the most-decorated Paralympic swimmers in history Mayumi Narita died on Friday. She was 55 years old.
The cause of death was intraheptic bile duct cancer, a rare cancer of the bile ducts in the liver.
Narita, who is Japanese, won 15 gold medals, 3 silver medals, and 2 bronze medals between 1996 and 2004 at the Paralympic Games. That included 6 gold medals at the 2000 Games and 7 at the 2004 Games in the S4, SM4, and SB3 categories.
Narita had used a wheelchair since the age of 13 because of myelitis, an inflammation of the spinal cord that disrupts the brain’s communication with the body. She joined a swim team at age 23 when invited by friends, but on the way back from her first meet in 1994, she was involved in a traffic crash. That event left her hospitalized for 5 months and quadriplegic.
“Sports have helped me to grow. People often tell me that seeing me swim encourages them, and I gain strength when I see them cheer,” Narita said in a 2016 interview. “Sports have an amazing power that cannot be expressed in words.”
Narita retired from swimming after the Beijing Paralympic Games at 38 years old. She then became involved in the Paralympic movement on the administrative side. She was an executive board member of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games bid committee that won the right to host the 2020 Games (postponed to 2021 by the COVID-19 pandemic).
Narita was named the 2005 Best Female Athlete award by the International Paralympic Committee. A year earlier in Athens, she set 6 World Records and 7 Paralympic Records en route to a 7 gold, 1 bronze medal performance.
Her 15 gold medals tie her as the 12th most in Paralympic Games history.
List of Most Decorated Paralympic Athletes in History
No. Athlete Nation Sport Years Games Sex Total 1 Trischa Zorn United States Swimming 1980–2004 Summer F 41 9 5 55 2 Ragnhild Myklebust Norway Biathlon, Cross-country skiing, Ice sledge racing 1988–2002 Winter F 22 3 2 27 15 Ihar Boki Belarus Swimming 2012–2024 Summer M 21 1 1 17 3 Béatrice Hess France Swimming 1984–2004 Summer F 20 5 0 25 4 Reinhild Moeller Germany Alpine skiing, Athletics 1980–2006 Winter, Summer F 19 3 1 23 5 Sarah Storey Great Britain Swimming, Cycling 1992–2020 Summer F 19 8 3 30 6 Michael Edgson[2] Canada Swimming 1984–1992 Summer M 18 3 0 21 7 Jonas Jacobsson Sweden Shooting 1980–2020 Summer M 17 4 9 30 8 Jessica Long United States Swimming 2004–2020 Summer F 17 8 5 30 9 Roberto Marson Italy Athletics, Fencing,Swimming 1964–1976 Summer M 16 7 3 26 10 Gerd Schoenfelder Germany Alpine skiing 1992–2010 Winter M 16 4 2 22 11 Mike Kenny Great Britain Swimming 1976–1988 Summer M 16 2 0 18 12 Zipora Rubin-Rosenbaum[3] Israel Athletics, Swimming, Wheelchair basketball, Table tennis 1964–1992 Summer F 15 9 7 31 13 Heinz Frei Switzerland Athletics, Cycling, Cross-country skiing 1984–2020 Summer, Winter M 15 8 12 35 14 Mayumi Narita Japan Swimming 1996–2004 Summer F 15 3 2 20Read the full story on SwimSwam: 15-Time Paralympic Gold Medalist Mayumi Narita Dies, Aged 55
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