Sandy Dukat

Sandy Dukat

  • Class Year:
    1994
  • Induction Year:
    2023

From Hall of Honor press release dated July 28, 2023:

Born with an underdeveloped limb, Sandy Dukat underwent a leg amputation above the knee at age 4, but that didn’t stop Dukat from joining the U.S. Disabled Ski Team and winning her first Paralympic gold medal in 2005 after earning a pair of bronze medals at the 2002 Paralympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. At the 2004 World Championships in Austria, Dukat skied her way to three bronze medals, in addition to a gold medal at the North American World Cup in 2005 and a bronze in the slalom at the 2006 Paralympic Games in Torino, Italy.

Dukat also was a member of the U.S. Disabled Swim Team, setting an American record in the 800-meter freestyle at the 1998 Disabled Swimming World Championships. After retiring from competition in July 2007, Dukat teamed with four other women with disabilities to climb Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro. In 2008, Dukat won both the World Triathlon Championships in Vancouver, Canada, for the female above the knee amputee category as well as the U.S. Disabled National Triathlon Championships. In 2009, she ran her first marathon and set the record for women competing in her category, and in 2010, Dukat won her fourth straight U.S. Paratriathlon Nationals for the female above the knee amputee category.