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Cheri Madsen

Madsen at the 2015 Parapan American Games
Personal information
Born	(1976-09-27) September 27, 1976 (age 48) Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Height	155 cm (5 ft 1 in)
Weight	52 kg (115 lb)
Sport
Sport	Paralympic athletics
Disability class	T54
Event	100–800 m
Medal record Representing the  United States Paralympic Games 2000 Sydney 100 m T54 2000 Sydney 400 m T54 1996 Atlanta 100 m T53 1996 Atlanta 200 m T53 2000 Sydney 200 m T54 2016 Rio 400 m T54 2020 Tokyo 400 m T54 1996 Atlanta 400 m T53 1996 Atlanta 800 m T53 2020 Tokyo 100 m T54 IPC Athletics World Championships 2017 London 200m - T54 2013 Lyon 200 m T54 2013 Lyon 400 m T54 Parapan American Games 2015 Toronto 400 m T54 2015 Toronto 800 m T54

Cheri Madsen (née Becerra; born September 27, 1976) is an American Paralympic wheelchair racing athlete.

Madsen is a Native American from the Omaha tribe. She grew up in Nebraska, graduating from Nebraska City High School in 1995. Aged three she lost the use of her legs due to an unknown viral infection in her spine. She took up wheelchair racing in 1994 and two years later qualified for the 1996 Paralympics. There, she competed in four events in classification T53, medaling in each. She participated in the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney in the same four events, this time in T54, winning two gold and one silver medal. After that, she semi-retired from competitions to build a family – she married Eric Madsen on June 2, 2001, and later gave birth to daughters Reese and Malayna. In 2007 her younger brother, Mario Becerra III, and father, Mario Becerra Sr., were killed in a car-train crash. Madsen returned to competitions in 2013 to honor her brother. She qualified for the 2013 IPC World Championships, 2015 Parapan American Games and 2016 Rio Paralympics, medaling on all occasions.

References

1. ^ Cheri Madsen Archived October 23, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. teamusa.org
2. ^ "Becerra, Cheri". paralympic.org. Archived from the original on October 25, 2016. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
3. Lisa J. Ellwood (June 16, 2016) Omaha Paralympian Cheri Becerra-Madsen Needs Your Help To Get To Rio Archived November 14, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com
4. Cheri Madsen Archived October 23, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. rio2016.com
5. Cheri Madsen. toronto2015.org

External links

• Cheri Madsen at Team USA (archived)
• Cheri Madsen at the International Paralympic Committee
• Cheri Madsen at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)

• Paralympic track and field athletes for the United States
• Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
• Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
• Paralympic bronze medalists for the United States
• Paralympic silver medalists for the United States
• Paralympic gold medalists for the United States
• Living people
• 1976 births
• Wheelchair racers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Wheelchair racers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
• American female wheelchair racers
• Paralympic wheelchair racers
• People with paraplegia
• Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
• Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
• Sportspeople from Omaha, Nebraska
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• Omaha Tribe of Nebraska people
• Native American sportspeople
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• Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
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• 21st-century Native Americans
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