A Paralympic Gold Medalist
Champions come and go, but little do we remember the glorious winners of the past. Ping Yali is one among them.
Ping not only was the reason for the Chinese national flag to be hoisted for the first time at a Paralympics field but she was the first ever Chinese citizen to win the Paralympic Gold, even before Xu Haifeng, who won it almost a month later at the Olympics.
Marla Runyan
Athlete
Visual impairment : Blind since nine years
Heinrich Wagner
An adventurer and
a motivational speaker
Visual impairment : Blind since birth
“It is better to be blind and have vision, than to be able to see and have none”, says Hein Wagner.
An athlete and also an artist, author, and motivational speaker.
Visual impairment: Due to damaged nerves of the retina.
Born: 1955.
This is the story of a man who challenged his fate to become a distinguished painter, an Olympic participant, an inspirational speaker, a published writer, and most importantly, a man who is not defined by his limitations but his achievements. He is George Mendoza from USA.
Erik Weihenmayer
Erik was born on 1968, with retinoscheses, and was completely blind by the age of 13 due to glaucoma.
He speaks movingly of the role his family played in breaking through the barriers of blindness: his mother, who prayed for the miracle that would restore his son’s sight and his father, who encouraged him to strive for that unreachable peak. Erik recalls his struggles to push past the limits placed before him, by seeing the world as much as by his blindness.
Having studied only till the 19th grade from the National Open School, Preeti’s edu
David Blunkett (born June 6 , 1947 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Home Secretary since 2001. He has been blind since birth.
Enrique Oliu
Baseball Commentator
Visual impairment : Blind since birth
Enrique Oliu, excels at a job that most people would assume is impossible for a blind man. He describes a game he cannot see. Enrique is blind.
He grew up listening to baseball on the radio in his native country of Nicaragua in South America. Baseball is Nicaragua’s national sport and Enrique’s father was an avid fan.
Avraham (Rami) Rabby has been serving, since October 2002, as the Assistant Informa
Sacha Van Loo
Blind Detective
This is the story of a Belgian detective; he is a detective with a difference. And the difference is - he is blind. Now you are sure to wonder as to how a blind person can be a detective.
A small statured man who has been blind since birth, Sacha van Loo, born in 1971, is one of the six blind police officers of the pioneering unit specialising in transcribing and analysing wiretap recordings during criminal investigations. These blind detectives are popularly referred to as counter terrorism weapons.
A former Certified Public Accountant and Financial Analyst, currently an artist and English teacher, Lisa Fittipal
Being visually impaired himself, 15-year-old Satveer has successfully developed a program which enables a blind pe
Parmeet has just cleared his class 12th exams with 78% marks.
Road Builder
John Metcalf, or Blind Jack of Knaresborough, as he was commonly known as, was one of the first of his kind of professional road builders to emerge during the Industrial Revolution. Despite being blind, he became famous as the builder of roads and bridges using techniques that in the 18th century were revolutionary.
John was born in a poor family on August 15, 1717, in Knaresborough, Yorkshire. An infection of smallpox at the age of six, took away his eyesight and John became blind.
Yang Jia
Professor of English
Visual impairment : Macular degeneration
Born : April 1963
Rajani Gopal is India’s first visually impaired woman to become a Chartered Accountant.
Elizabeth Jackson
A Business Woman
Visual impairment : Retinitis Pigmentosa since childhood
Born: May 11 1973
Elizabeth Jackson was born on the Isle of Sheppey, in Southern England. As a child, she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a severe eye disorder. Doctors told her family that she would be blind by the age of five.
Peter White
Radio broadcaster and journalist
Visual impairment : Born blind
Born: 1947
Peter White is an exceptional person. Blind since birth, he is a successful journalist with B.B.C. and a radio presenter with BBC Radio Solent. His determination earned him his job with BBC radio when the station was launched in 1971. He was then just 24 and had no prior experience.
Tim Cordes
Medical Doctor
Visual impairment: Blind
"Things are only impossible until they are done." Tim Cordes is a living proof to this statement.
Tim Cordes is blind. However, this did not stop him from mastering Jujitsu (a genre of Martial Art) and water skiing. Besides composing wonderful music, Tim shows a keen interest in the subject of Bio Chemistry as well. Any one of these accomplishments would be impressive, but together they are dazzling.
American Pop Singer
Visual impairment : Blind since birth
Born Steveland Hardaway Judkins, Wonder now prefers to be known as Steveland Morris after his mother's married name. Placed in an incubator immediately after his birth, baby Steveland was given too much oxygen, causing him to suffer permanent blindness. Despite this handicap, Wonder began to learn the piano at the age of seven, and had also mastered drums and harmonica by the age of nine.
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