From a shark attack to Paralympic silver: Truwit’s remarkable journey

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Even in the story-laden world of the Paralympics, where things are never monochrome, it is hard to trump getting your leg bitten off by a shark one year, and swimming for medals in Paris the next.

Yet that is the true tale behind the success of Ali Truwit, 24-year-old ex-Yale competitive swimmer, and silver medallist in the La Defense Arena in the S10 400m freestyle on Thursday night, who in 2023 fought off a shark in the waters of Turks and Caicos in the Atlantic Ocean, and saved her own life by racing 70 metres to a boat, her left foot somewhere behind.