Maryland is one of the best-represented states this summer at the Paris Olympics and Paralympics with a combined 25 athletes.

The Olympics ran from July 24 to Aug. 11, and the Paralympics are set for Aug. 28 to Sept. 8.

After 19 days of competition, Maryland Olympians finished with a total of 14 medals and six gold medals. If the state was its own country, it would tie with Hungary for 14th place in the gold medal race and place just ahead of Sweden and Kenya in total medals.

Here’s how will their counterparts in the Paralympics fared.

Basketball

Trevon Jenifer, Huntingtown

Classification: 2.5

Trevon Jenifer started his wheelchair basketball career at just 4 years old in 1992 with team Air Capital in Washington, D.C. As a kid, Jenifer was also a successful track athlete; he holds several U11 and U14 American track and field records. But basketball is where the Huntington native has had the most success. Jenifer helped the wheelchair basketball team win bronze in 2012, its first medal in 12 years. Then, in 2016, he helped Team USA win its first Paralympic gold medal in 28 years.

Jenifer also aided the team in winning gold again in Tokyo and now is on the hunt for a third straight gold medal in Paris.

When to watch:

• USA vs. Spain on Aug. 29 at 10 a.m.
• USA vs. Netherlands on Aug. 31 at 10 a.m.
• USA vs. Australia on Sept. 1 at 4:30 a.m.
• Men’s wheelchair basketball quarterfinals on Sept. 3.
• Men’s wheelchair basketball semifinals on Sept. 6.
• Men’s wheelchair basketball finals on Sept. 7.

Results: Aug. 29: Team USA beat Spain 66-56, with Jenifer contributing 14 points on a 7-for-7 shooting day.

Aug. 31: The U.S. cruised to a 60-34 victory over the Netherlands. Jenifer scored 3 points and went 1-for-6 from the floor.

Sept. 1: Jenifer had a sharper shooting day, going 4-for-5 for eight points, and Team USA handled Australia, 76-60.

Sept. 3: In the quarterfinals, the U.S. demolished host country France 82-47. Jenifer scored 3 points and contributed 5 rebounds.

Sept. 6: Team USA dominated in the semifinal with an 80-43 win. Jenifer played 40 minutes and contributed 8 points and 7 rebounds.

Sept. 7: The U.S. wins gold with a narrow 73-69 win over Great Britain. Once again, Jenifer played 40 minutes, adding 14 points and 7 rebounds.

Fencing

Noah Hanssen, Ellicott City

Event: Sabre

Noah Hanssen grew up playing with toy swords, pretending to be characters from “Star Wars” and “Lord of the Rings” with his cousins. He practiced historical fencing, a different version of the sport, because it was the only one that offered accommodations for his wheelchair. It wasn’t until his junior year of high school that a referee at a tournament helped him connect with an adaptive sport fencing program.

After that, Hanssen began training with the parafencing team and won a national championship in sabre fencing. He went to the University of Maryland, where he served as the club fencing team’s vice president and helped it purchase equipment to make the sport more accessible.

When to watch:

• Competition throughout the day on Sept. 3 from 7 a.m. to 3:40 p.m.

Results: Sept. 3: In the round of 16, Hanssen was defeated by China’s Yanke Feng, the eventual gold medal winner.

Swimming

Jessica Long, Baltimore

Classification: S8, SM8

Events: 100m breaststroke, 400m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 200m individual medley.

A Baltimore swimmer with more medals than Michael Phelps, Jessica Long returns for her sixth Paralympics. Long, whose legs were amputated when she was 18 months old, learned to swim in her grandparents’ pool, where she spent hours pretending to be a mermaid.

Just like the mythical creature, Long is at home in the water. She swam in her first Paralympic Games in 2004 at just 12 years old. She’s won 29 Paralympic medals, including 16 gold medals, and is favored to win even more in Paris.

When to watch:

• Women’s S8 100m backstroke on Aug. 31, preliminary heat at 4:14 a.m. and finals at 2:06 p.m.
• Women’s S8 200m individual medley opening heats on Sept. 1 at 4:09 a.m. and finals at 12:06 p.m.
• Women’s S8 400m freestyle preliminary heats at 4:28 a.m. on Sept. 4 and finals that afternoon at 12:24 p.m.
• Women’s S8 100m butterfly preliminary heat at 4:21 a.m. on Sept. 7

Results: Aug. 31: Long finished second in her heat for the 100m backstroke but did not medal in the final.

Sept. 2: Long finished second in her heat for the SM8 200 individual medley with a time of 2:45.97. She missed the medal stand in the final, finishing 5.33 seconds behind gold medalist Brock Whiston of Great Britain.

Sept. 4: Long blew away the competition in the preliminary heats in the S8 400m freestyle with a time of 4:53.43. The next fastest time was 5:02.27. She followed it up with a similarly dominant time in the final, winning gold with a time of 4:48.74, nearly four seconds ahead of Great Britain’s Alice Tai. It’s Long’s 30th Paralympic medal and 17th gold.

Sept. 7: In the S8 100m butterfly, Long finished with the fastest time in the two heat at 1:11.36. She improved her time in the final to 1:10.59, good enough to capture her second gold of the Games.

Lawrence Sapp, Waldorf

Classification: S14

Events: 100m butterfly.

Lawrence Sapp began swimming at age 5 and started competing with USA Swimming as a preteen. As a freshman in high school, he broke five school records. When Sapp joined the team for the 2020 Tokyo Games, he became the first Black man with autism to compete for USA Paralympic swimming.

In Tokyo, Sapp placed fifth in the men’s S14 100-meter butterfly. Sapp also has two medals from the world championships, gold in the 100-meter backstroke in 2017 and silver in the 100-meter butterfly in 2019.

Sapp and his mother, Dee Sapp, helped advocate for changes in the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration’s written test to make it more accessible.

When to watch:

• Men’s S14 100m butterfly preliminary round on Aug. 29 at 4:41 a.m. and finals at 12:35 p.m..

Results: Aug. 29: Sapp finished sixth in his heat for the 100 butterfly, with a time of 1:00.28, and did not advance.

Zachary Shattuck, Mount Airy

Classification: SB6, S6

Events: 100m breaststroke, 50m butterfly, 100m freestyle, 200m individual medley.

Despite not beginning competitive swimming until he was in college, Zachary Shattuck is on his way to being a two-time Paralympian. Shattuck played soccer and basketball and wrestled growing up, before discovering swimming and competing for Frostburg State University for four years.

Shattuck swam in three races in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but did not medal. Most recently, in the 2023 Parapan American Games, he won a silver medal in the 100-meter breaststroke and a bronze in the 50-meter butterfly.

When to watch:

• Men’s SM6 200m individual medley on Aug. 30, preliminary round at 3:56 a.m. and finals at 11:52 a.m.
• Men’s SB6 100m breaststroke preliminary heats at 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 1 and finals at 11:30 a.m.
• Men’s S6 50m butterfly opening round at 4:06 a.m. on Sept. 3 and finals at noon.

Results: Aug. 30: With a time of 2:51.92, Shattuck finished third in his heat in the men’s SM6 200 individual medley but did not have one of the eight fastest times in the preliminary round needed to advance to the final.

Sept. 1: Shattuck finished fourth in his heat for the men’s SB6 100m breaststroke and advanced to the final, where he finished sixth with a time of 1:25.11.

Sept. 3: Shattuck finished fourth in his heat for the S6 50m butterfly and did not advance to the final.

Track and field

Tatyana McFadden, Baltimore

Classification: T54

Events: Marathon, 4x100m mixed relay, 100m, 400m, 800m, 1500m

Wheelchair racer Tatyana McFadden is back for her sixth Paralympics. McFadden has 20 Paralympic medals and 24 major marathon wins. She’s broken five track and field world records.

McFadden was born in Russia and was adopted by Deborah McFadden, who served as the commissioner of disabilities for the Department of Health and Human Services. In Baltimore, McFadden’s parents enrolled her in the Bennett Blazers, the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s adaptive sports program, to help her build strength. She quickly took to wheelchair racing.

Off the track, McFadden was a huge advocate for the 2008 Maryland Fitness and Athletics Equity for Students with Disabilities Act, which later became known as Tatyana’s Law. The act helped ensure equal opportunities in athletics for disabled students.

When to watch:

• Women’s T54 800m first round on Sept. 1 at 5:25 a.m. with the final later that day at 1:17 p.m.
• Women’s T54 100m first round on Sept. 4 at 6:45 a.m. and the final that afternoon at 2:43 p.m.
• Women’s T54 400m first round on Sept. 5 at 7:12 a.m. with the final later that day at 1:33 p.m.
• 4x100 universal mixed relay round one at 6:54 a.m. on Sept. 6 and the final that afternoon at 3 p.m.
• Women’s T54 marathon on Sept. 8

Results: Sept. 1: McFadden won her heat in the T54 800m, but it was the fifth best time overall. She had her season best time in the final at 1:43.58, just missing the medal stand in fourth place.

Sept. 4: McFadden set a Paralympic record with her time of 15.55 in the preliminary heats for the T54 100m race. Her record was then broken in the final by Belgium’s Léa Bayekula, who won the gold. McFadden got the silver with a time of 15.67.

Sept. 5: In the first heat of the 400m, McFadden qualified for the final with a time of 54.01, fourth best. She was disqualified in the final for a lane infringement.

Sept. 6: Team USA recorded the third-best time in the preliminary heats of the 4x100 universal mixed relay. In the four-team final, the U.S. secured the bronze with a time of 47.32.

Sept. 8: McFadden placed seventh in the T54 marathon, 12:02 behind Switzerland’s Catherine Debrunner.

Daniel Romanchuk, Mount Airy

Classification: T54

Events: Marathon, 100m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 5000m

Another athlete with ties to the Bennett Blazers, Daniel Romanchuk serves as a coach for the program when he’s not racing in marathons and other events. Paris will be his third time competing in the Paralympic Games after he won the 400-meter T54 race and placed third in the T54 marathon in Tokyo. In 2024, Romanchuk placed second in the Boston and London marathons on back-to-back weekends.

Romanchuk has also helped create a nonprofit, Wheels for Change, to help provide wheelchair racing equipment and coaching nationally and internationally.

When to watch:

• Men’s T54 5,000m first round on Aug. 30 at 2:51 p.m. and the 5,000m finals on Aug. 31 at 2:25 p.m.
• Men’s T54 400m first round on Sept. 1 and finals that afternoon at 2:20 p.m.
• Men’s T54 1,500m first round on Sept. 2 at 3:15 p.m. and finals on Sept. 3 at 2:54 p.m.
• Men’s T54 800m first round on Sept. 5 at 6:20 a.m. and finals in the afternoon at 2:21 p.m.
• Men’s T54 marathon on Sept. 8.

Results: Aug. 30: Romanchuk finished third in his heat of the men’s T54 5,000-meter race with a time of 11:18.41, good enough to advance to the final. Switzerland’s Marcel Hug had the best time in the two heats at 10:35.08.

Sept. 1: Romanchuk posted the best time in the preliminary heats of men’s T54 400m at 45.18. He was slightly better in the final and won the bronze.

Sept. 2: Romanchuk won his heat in the men’s T54 1,500m with a time of 3:05.10. But even with a season best time of 2:54.31 in the final, Romanchuk finished ninth.

Sept. 5: Romanchuk recorded the second-best time in the preliminary heats for the T54 800m, finishing just behind China’s Jin Hua, who set a Paralympic record with a time of 1:31.50. Hua went on to win the gold, while Romanchuk finished fifth in the final.

Sept. 8: In the marathon, Romanchuk just missed the medal stand 1:32:23. The bronze medal winner, Japan’s Tomoki Suzuki, was one minute faster.

Samantha Heyison, Adamstown

Classification: F64

Event: Women’s discus throw

Samantha Heyison was named the U.S. Paralympics track and field high school Athlete of the Year twice for her success in the discus throw and shot put. Heyison won three state championships before moving on to the collegiate level and competing for Wake Forest. The 19-year-old, who was born with constricted band syndrome, attended her first Paralympic track and field camp in 2021. In the 2023 World Paralympic Championships, she won bronze in the discus and shot put. She will compete in both events in Paris.

Heyison comes from a family of Maryland athletes. Her mother played volleyball for UMBC, and her father played baseball for George Washington University before being drafted by the Orioles in 1983.

When to watch:

• Women’s T64 discus throw final on Sept. 1 at 4:47 a.m.

Results: Sept. 1: Heyison placed fifth, with her best throw reaching 38.78 meters.

Correction: This story has been updated to correct the spelling of Trevon Jenifer's hometown and to revise Jessica Long's schedule of events and results.