David Prince - USA Paralympic Sprinter

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Episode 451

David Prince is a two-time United States Paralympian sprinter. Raised by missionary parents, David traveled frequently across the country and to Oaxaca, Mexico. In 2002, at the age of 18, he crashed his motorcycle which resulted in having his leg amputated below the knee as well as a traumatic head injury.

After seeing his life come crumbling down, David was able to turn that setback into a comeback and began training to become a sprinter. In 2010, Prince won a gold medal at the U.S. Paralympic National Championship in the 400m event, a silver medal in the long jump and a bronze medal in the 200m event.

In 2011, Prince won a gold medal at the 2011 Parapan American Games in the 200m and 400m events. In 2011 at the IPC World Championship, he won a silver medal in the 4 × 100 meter relay and a bronze medal in the 400m event. Later that year at the Paralympic National Championship, he won a gold medal in the 200m and 400m events and a silver medal in the 100m race.

Prince narrowly missed qualifying for the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, China but four years later, he achieved his goal of qualifying for the 2012 Paralympic Games where he won an individual bronze medal in the 400 m T43/44 event, in a new world record time for his own T44 classification.

In 2016, he was back at the Paralympic Games in Rio where he finished 6th in the 200 m event. In November of 2019, Prince, at the age of 36, won a bronze medal in Dubai at the 2019 World Championships in the 200 m race.

On this episode of the podcast, we hear the inspirational story of David Prince as he shares how the accident the almost ruined his life, brought him closer to God and how recent trials in his life has helped him re-shape his focus to living for Christ in the midst of continuing his quest to compete in the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation.
0:17.5	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:20.2	Welcome to Sports Spectrum, everybody.
0:22.2	I am Jason Romano, and it is great to have you joining us here on the show today.
0:27.2	Before we get to our interview with David Prince, two-time Paralympian sprinter, I want to tell you about Compassion International, the most trusted child development ministry in the world. For $38
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1:04.4	Pray about it. Look at the list of children that are waiting to be released from poverty.
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1:18.6	today. Joining us on the podcast is David Prince, two-time Paralympian sprinter.
1:34.6	He lost his right leg in a motorcycle accident in 2002 at the age of 18, raised by missionary parents.
1:35.4	David rebelled and got caught up in a life of drug addiction and alcohol addiction,
1:42.1	high school dropout, and then the motorcycle accident that changes his
1:47.1	life forever in 2002, losing his right leg. David persevered and through a lot of ups and downs,
1:54.7	which he details here in the podcast, he becomes a para-olympian. In 2012, he's the bronze medal winner at the Paralympian
2:04.3	Games as a sprinter in 2016 at the Rio Paralympic Games. He finished sixth in the 200 meter.
2:10.5	And just recently, in November of 2019, he won a bronze medal in Dubai at the 2019 World Championships in the 200-meter race.
2:21.5	David's been through a lot, especially in these last six months to a couple years,
2:26.8	thought maybe racing was over, thought maybe running was over,
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