Lipscomb University track and field athlete Lisa Corso won her second Paralympic medal over the weekend, winning bronze in the 1,500-meter T13 race.
Corso finished at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris on Saturday in an astounding time of 4 minutes 23.45 seconds, less than a minute ahead of Ethiopia’s gold medallist Tigistu Mengistu.
Corso, a college senior, won a silver medal in the same event at the Tokyo Paralympics in 2020. In both races, Corso was the only American athlete among the competitors.
Corso is classified as a T13 athlete, meaning he has a moderate visual impairment. Athletes with visual impairments are classified in the T11-T13 range.
At Lipscomb, Corso earned three all-conference honors in cross country and track and field, qualified for the NCAA Championship Meet in both sports and was named a 2023 Academic All-American in cross country.
Corso wasn’t the only local athlete to win a Paralympic medal over the holidays: Fellow Nashville native Joe Delagrave led the U.S. Wheelchair Rugby Team to a silver medal on Monday.
This article was first published in our sister publication, The News.
