Australian Paralympic gold medallist Paige Greco has died at the age of 28, leaving her family with a pain to "carry forever".

Greco, who had cerebral palsy, passed away after what authorities said was a "sudden medical episode" at her Adelaide home on Sunday.

The champion cyclist won Australia's first gold medal at the Paralympic Games in 2021, when she set a world record in the women's C1–3 3000m individual pursuit.

Greco also collected two bronze medals at the Tokyo Paralympics and multiple world championship titles and world cup medals.

"Paige meant everything to us," her mother Natalie Greco said on Monday in a statement issued by AusCycling and Paralympics Australia.

"Her kindness, her determination and her warmth touched our family every single day.

"She brought so much joy an

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