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Joe Gaetani

American Paralympic athlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ18686240 ↗
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Joe Gaetani is a paralympic athlete from the United States competing mainly in category TS1 sprint events.

Joe competed in the 1992 Summer Paralympics where he broke the world record in the 100m and 200m to win both gold medals and was part of the American 4 × 100 m team that finished 0.02 seconds behind the world record setting Australian team.

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This entry incorporates text from “Joe Gaetani” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.