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Ali Truwit swims to Paralympic silver a year after losing her leg in a shark attack

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Ali Truwit wins bronze

A shark attack just days after her graduation from Yale last May left former Division I swimmer Ali Truwit with an amputated leg and a host of questions.

“I’m a lifelong athlete — 10 days before the attack I’d run a marathon with my mom,” Truwit told The Kelly Clarkson Show earlier this year. “And I was sitting there thinking, ‘Am I ever going to run again? Am I ever going to be able to be an athlete again?' ”

The answer is an Olympic-sized yes.

Three months after the attack, Truwit competed in her first Para swim meet. Within a year, she had qualified for the Paralympic Games in Paris. And this week, she won two silver medals.

On Thursday, the 24-year-old placed second in the women's 400 meter free S10, the longest distance in Paralympic swimming.

Truwit’s time of 4:31.39 didn’t just earn her a medal; it also set a new American record.

TVNL Comment: Way to go, Ali!!!

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