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Warrior Games: Back in Action

June 7, 2023 |DOD News

Challenge Accepted! 

More than 200 wounded, ill and injured service members and veteran athletes are competing in the 2023 Warrior Games Challenge, a Paralympic-style competitive event.

The competition features adaptive sports used by wounded warriors as part of their recovery process. Each service provides newly enrolled wounded warriors with access to adaptive sports, allowing them to find new ways of enhancing their recovery journey.

A race participant cheers while seated in a recumbent bicycle.
A race participant cheers while seated in a recumbent bicycle.
Finish Line
Army Sgt. 1st Class Joshua Keefer wins the men’s recumbent cycling event during the 2023 DOD Warrior Games at Naval Base Coronado in San Diego, June 4, 2023.
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VIRIN: 230604-D-DB155-007Y

This year, the event  is taking place at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego. The event includes 11 adaptive sports including archery, track, field, swimming, rowing, shooting, powerlifting, cycling, wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball and wheelchair rugby.

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A Coast Guardsman backstrokes in a pool.
Seated volleyball players faceoff at the net.
A sailor aims an air pistol among other competitors.
A service member runs with a flag as others move through a basketball court in wheelchairs.
An archer fires an arrow during a competition.
A Marine pulls a rowing machine as blurred spectators cheer in the background.
A dog gets their head scratched while lying next to a person’s leg.
An airman throws a shot put.
Multiple players compete in a rugby wheelchair match.
Four service members ride bikes in formation as spectators observe from behind a barrier.
A sailor pushes up a barbell on a workout bench.
A sailor and an airman battle for a ball while in wheelchairs.
An airman raises her hands while wearing five medals around her neck.
An airman in a wheelchair.
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