Bart Dodson
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Paralympic athletics | ||
Representing  United States
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| Paralympic Games | ||
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 1984 Stoke Mandeville / New York | Club Throw - 1A |
| | 1984 Stoke Mandeville / New York | High Jump - 1A |
| | 1988 Seoul | 4x100 metre relay - 1A-1C |
| | 1988 Seoul | 4x100 metre relay - 1A-1C |
| | 1992 Barcelona | 100 metres - TW1 |
| | 1992 Barcelona | 200 metres - TW1 |
| | 1992 Barcelona | 400 metres - TW1 |
| | 1992 Barcelona | 800 metres - TW1 |
| | 1992 Barcelona | 1500 metres - TW1 |
| | 1992 Barcelona | 5000 metres - TW1 |
| | 1992 Barcelona | 4x100 metre relay - TW1-2 |
| | 1992 Barcelona | 4x400 metre relay - TW1-2 |
| | 2000 Sydney | 200 metres - T51 |
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 1984 Stoke Mandeville / New York | 200 metres - 1A |
| | 1988 Seoul | 100 metres - 1A |
| | 1996 Atlanta | Marathon - T50 |
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 1988 Seoul | 1500 metres - 1A |
| | 1988 Seoul | Marathon - 1A |
| | 1996 Atlanta | 800 metres - T50 |
| | 2000 Sydney | 400 metres - T51 |
Bart Dodson is a paralympic athlete from the United States competing mainly in category T51 wheelchair racing events.
Biography
Dodson has been part of five summer paralympics, winning twenty medals thirteen of them gold. His first games were in 1984 where despite competing in the 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m, winning a silver in the 200m it was unusually in the field events where he won gold medals in the club throw and pentathlon in what would prove the only time he competed in the field at the paralympics. By the 1988 Summer Paralympics Dodson was competing exclusively on the track competing in every distance from 200m to marathon winning bronze in the 1500m and marathon he was also part of the American gold medal winning relay teams in the 4 × 100 m and 4 × 200 m. 1992 Summer Paralympics would prove to be the apex of Dodson's career as he dominated on the track winning every distance from 100m to 5000m as well as winning two relay golds with the American 4 × 100 m and 4 × 400 m teams. His fourth games in 1996 were not as successful as he only picked up a bronze in 800m and silver in the marathon and missed out on medals entirely in the 1500m and 400m. His last games in 2000 yielded yet another gold medal in the 200m as well as a further bronze in the 400m this time missing out in the 800m and 1500m.[1]