Blake Leeper

Patrick "Blake" Leeper, eight-time Paralympic Track and Field international medalist, world record holder and three-time...

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Currently, Blake Leeper is 35 years, 2 months and 22 days old. Blake Leeper will celebrate 36rd birthday on a Sunday 31st of August 2025. Below we countdown to Blake Leeper upcoming birthday.

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Age 35 years old
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Born August 31, 1989 ()
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🌙 Zodiac

Blake Leeper’s zodiac sign is Virgo. According to astrologers, Virgos are always paying attention to the smallest details and their deep sense of humanity makes them one of the most careful signs of the zodiac. Their methodical approach to life ensures that nothing is left to chance, and although they are often tender, their heart might be closed for the outer world. This is a sign often misunderstood, not because they lack the ability to express, but because they won’t accept their feelings as valid, true, or even relevant when opposed to reason. The symbolism behind the name speaks well of their nature, born with a feeling they are experiencing everything for the first time.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Blake Leeper was born in the Year of the Snake. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Snake are seductive, gregarious, introverted, generous, charming, good with money, analytical, insecure, jealous, slightly dangerous, smart, they rely on gut feelings, are hard-working and intelligent. Compatible with Rooster or Ox.

Patrick "Blake" Leeper, eight-time Paralympic Track and Field international medalist, world record holder and three-time American record holder started his medal run in 2011 at the Parapan American Games where he took his first silver in the 100-meter dash.

He went on to compete in the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, where he picked up two more medals, a bronze in the 200-meter dash and silver in the 400-meter dash, losing to South African Oscar Pistorius, whose world record of 45.

39 seconds is Leeper is chasing. In 2013, Leeper also took four medals at the Paralympic World Championships in Lyon, France, where he ran as part of the world record-setting 4x100-meter relay gold medal team.

At the same event he took the silver medal in the 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash and 400-meter dash.Patrick "Blake" Leeper was just chosen by the US Paralympics to represent Team USA in Rio 2016. At the Paralympic trials, he set a new American record in the 200m with a time of 21.

5 and a new America's record in the 400m at 46.1. He took silver in the 100m despite loosing a prosthetic leg crossing the finish line live on NBC.Leeper's medal collection includes one gold, six silver and one bronze.

Over his career, he hopes to win more medals than any Paralympic athlete in track and field. He is also striving to be the first American track and field Paralympian who qualifies for the able bodied Olympic trials.

In addition to the medals he has already won, Leeper holds one 2013 Paralympic world record in the 4x100m relay and three American records in the 100-meter dash (10.91). On June 21st the day after a one-year suspension for the use of a non-performance drug discovered after participating in an event on June 20th 2015.

Leeper broke his own American record in the 200-meter dash (21.49) and smashed the 400-meter dash record with a time of (46.54). Leeper's world record for his part in the 4x100-meter relay still stands today.

The 26-year-old Leeper, who was born without legs from a congenital birth defect, did not start racing until 2010. It was at his first ever race in Edmond, Oklahoma that he caught the attention of the Associate Director of High Performance for U.

S. Paralympics Track and Field, who convinced his parents to let their son move into the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California, where he started his habit of winning. That's when Leeper left the University of Tennessee to embark on a journey that no one could envision for a kid from Tennessee born without legs.

Blake Leeper Movies

  • Leeper (2019) as Self
  • KCAL 9 News Weekend Report (2015) as Self - Guest
  • U.S. Olympic Trials (2016) as Self
  • Spirit of Evolution as Self

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