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USA's Roderick Townsend wins 3rd high jump gold medal at Paralympics — sporting the hairstyle of a "showman"

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Team USA's Roderick Townsend wins the T47 high jump at the Paralympics in Paris .

The 32-year-old American has a shoulder impairment after sustaining nerve damage at birth.

The high jump is for competitors who have either lost part of an arm, or have low to moderate movement problems in one arm.

Team USA posts a " Three-Peat " image of Townsend with the message captioned "THE HIGH JUMP T47 KING".

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semi-formal

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English

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38

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