Jessica-Jane Applegate, a teen age woman from the UK won a gold medal swimming in the S14 200m freestyle at the 2012 Paralympics in London and set a new Paralympic record in the process. Applegate, who has Asperger syndrome, qualified under the Intellectually Disabled classification. Read more about it at telegraph.co.uk here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/paralympic-sport/9516077/Jessica-Jane-Applegate-become-first-intellectually-disabled-Brit-to-win-gold-at-2012-Paralympic-Games.html
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