Australian Paralympic gold medalist Paige Greco died at the age of 28 on Sunday, after experiencing what authorities in South Australia state described as a “sudden medical episode” in her Adelaide home.

Greco, who was born with cerebral palsy, won Australia’s first gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, setting the world record in the women’s C1–3 3,000-meter individual pursuit along with bronze medals in the women’s C1–3 road race and time trial.

“Paige meant everything to us,” Greco’s mother Natalie said in a statement via AusCycling and Paralympics Australia.

Paige Greco during the 2020 Paralympics in Japan. Getty Images

“Her kindness, her determination and her warmth touched our family every single day. She brought so much joy and pride into our lives, and the pain of her

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