AJ Digby
Sport: Para Track and Field
Gold: 0 Silver: 0 Bronze: 0
Quick Facts
Birthday: September 30, 1997
Height: 6'1"
Age: 27
Hometown: Tontogany, OH
Education: Otsego High School (Tontogany, Ohio) ‘16 University of Mount Union (Alliance, Ohio) ‘20
Biography
Quick Facts
- Son of Gordon and Robin Digby
- Has a younger brother Keegan and a younger sister Ashlynn
- Born with bilateral fibular hemimelia, a rare condition in which the fibulas in his legs were never formed
- Had both his legs amputated below the knee when he was 10 months old and was fitted for prostheses just after his first birthday
- Member of the national championship-winning 4x400m relay team at the 2017 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships
- Former member of the U.S. national development sled hockey team
- Played quarterback and linebacker for his Otsego High School junior varsity football team and special teams on the varsity squad
- Enjoys football, sled hockey, auto racing and choir
- First learned about Paralympic track and field after watching the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games online
- Considers U.S. teammate Jerome Singleton, the first Paralympian he ever met, a mentor after being taken under his wing
- Favorite film franchise is Star Wars
- Aspires to be a college football coach.
Paralympic Experience
- One-time Paralympian (2016)
- Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, 4th (400m), 5th (200m), 6th (4x100m relay)
World Championship Experience
- Most recent: 2017 – bronze (400m), 4th (200m)
- Years of Participation: 2015, 2017
- Medals: 1 (1 bronze)
- Bronze – 2017 (400m)
