Terezinha Silva is the fastest blind female runner in the world . She won two gold medals at 2012 Summer Paralympics but fell in 400 m . A world record in the 100m for her category came in 2007 and she won a full set of medals at the Beijing Paralympics the following year . The 34-year - old will retire after the 2016 Paralympics in her native Brazil . Guilhermina : ` ` I had nothing , now I have everything ''
Terezinha Silva is the fastest blind female runner in the world . She won two gold medals at 2012 Summer Paralympics but fell in 400 m . The 34-year - old will retire after the 2016 Paralympics in her native Brazil . Guilhermina : ` ` I had nothing , now I have everything ''