Candace Cable

Candace Cable competed at the 1984, 1988, and 1992 Olympics in the women’s 800 metre wheelchair demonstration event. Cable competed nine times at the Paralympics, winning 12 medals, including 8 gold medals. She also competed at five Paralympic Winter Games. She won the Boston Marathon in 1981-82 and 1985-88, and won the first four Los Angeles Marathons in the wheelchair division. In all she won 84 marathons during her racing career.

Cable was injured in a car accident when she was 21-years-old and lost the use of her legs. She became addicted to heroin during the recovery, but went through drug rehab a few years later and went back to school at Long Beach State University. While there she discovered wheelchair racing, which she continued competing in until 2006.

In 2016 Cable was named to the board of LA 2028, the organizing committee for the 2028 Olympics and Paralympics. Cable has worked with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She has also been involved with the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, an organization working to improve the quality of life for persons with paralysis.