Lisa Banta

Lisa Banta (born May 29, 1979 in Peguaneck , New Jersey ) is an American goalball player and athlete .

Career

Banta came into contact with goalball at the urging of the New Jersey's Association of Blind Athletes . Banta was lured into the fact that she could continue throwing a discus. In 2000 she was a member of the United States women's goalball team for the first time in Sydney . In the previous games she had been designated as a substitute woman. In Sydney their team reached sixth place. In addition, Banta won two silver medals as a discus thrower. Four years later, in 2004 in Athens , she won her next silver medal with her team. Before these games, Banta had been among the first disabled athletes to train at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs .

In 2008 in Beijing she won her first Paralympic gold medal together with the women's goalball team.

In addition to the Paralympic Games , she also took part in various other international competitions and national championships. There, too, she did well and won several medals. In the discus throwing discipline, she was able to set a state record in the score B2.

successes

National championships

• 1996 USABA National Goalball Championships: Gold
• 1997 USABA National Track and Field Championships: Gold (discus throw)
• 1998 USABA National Track and Field Championships: Gold (discus throw)

World championships

• 1998 IBSA World Championships: Bronze (Goalball)
• 2002 IBSA World Championships: Gold (Goalball)
• 2006 IBSA World Championships: Bronze (Goalball)

Summer Paralympics

• 2000 Sydney: Silver (B2 discus throw)
• 2000 Sydney: Silver (F12 discus throw)
• 2004 Athens: Silver (Goalball)
• 2008 Beijing: Gold (Goalball)

Other international competitions

• 1999 IBSA Pan American Games: Gold (javelin throw)
• 1999 IBSA Pan American Games: Silver (shot put)
• 1999 IBSA Pan American Games: Silver (discus throw)
• 2001 IBSA Pan American Games: Gold (Goalball)
• 2001 IBSA Pan American Games: Gold (discus throw)
• 2005 Pan American Games: Gold (Goalball)

Web links

• Biography (English) ( Memento from 1 January 2009 at the Internet Archive )