Shawn Morelli won the United States’ first medal of the Tokyo Paralympics Wednesday afternoon in track cycling.
In her Paralympic debut five years ago, Morelli also medaled on the first day of competition, though that time long jumper Lex Gillette’s silver had come earlier in the day; still, Morelli’s was the first U.S. gold that year.
Morelli won gold in two of her three events – track pursuit and road time trial – at the Rio 2016 Games and starts out a similar campaign in Tokyo by taking the silver medal in the individual pursuit C4.