Ezra Frech

Ezra Frech is an American track and field athlete who competes in high jump, long jump and sprinting events. He is a two-time Paralympian, having competed at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Paralympics, and was a double silver medalist at the Parapan American Games. Frech is a motivational speaker and disability rights advocate. In February 2024, he became the first above-the-knee amputee to commit to an NCAA Division I track and field team at the University of Southern California.

Frech was born in Los Angeles, California, to mother Bahar Soomekh, a Persian Jewish actress born in Iran and raised in Los Angeles, and father Clayton Frech, an American of German descent who converted to Judaism after marrying Soomekh in 2001. Like his parents, Frech is Jewish. He has two younger brothers, Gabriel and Elijah.

Frech was born without most of his left leg (missing a knee and fibula) and missing fingers on his left hand. He received his first prosthetic leg when he was 11 months old. When he was 2 years old, Frech had surgery to remove his lower left leg and transplanted a toe from his amputated foot onto his left hand at Boston Children's Hospital. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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