NEW YORK — Two days after winning her sixth and final medal of the Rio Paralympics, Tatyana McFadden was teaching kids at a wheelchair racing clinic, hoping to inspire a new generation of champions.
McFadden, 27, who trains in Champaign, Ill., returned to the United States after capping her Paralympic Games with a silver medal in the marathon Sunday, crossing the line in a photo finish second to China’s Lihong Zou. The two finished in 1 hour, 38 minutes, 44 seconds, setting a Paralympic record.
The American won a medal in each of her six individual races, which started at 100 meters and went up to the marathon.