When you’re an Olympian AND a Paralympian! Swipe for gallery of athletes who have appeared at both Games. 📸 Italian Para archer Paola Fantato competed at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 1996. Para swimmer Natalie du Toit competed at the 2008 Olympic Games. She won five gold medals at the 2008 Paralympic Games. Marla Runyan collected five Paralympic gold medals in her races at Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996. In 2000 she went on to compete at the Olympics in Sydney, becoming the first legally blind athlete to compete at an Olympic Games. Ilke Wyludda, a three-time Olympian, won gold in the women’s discus throw at Atlanta 1996 and became a Paralympian in 2012. Pepo Puch represented Croatia at the 2004 Olympic Games and switched to Para sport after an accident left him with incomplete paraplegia. Puch made his Paralympic debut at London 2012 where he won a gold and bronze for his birth country Austria. Zahra Nemati also embraced flagbearing duties when she was selected for ...