Hannah Dederick

Hannah Xue Jia Dederick (née Xua Jia; born November 20, 2002) is an American Paralympic athlete of Chinese descent who competes in sprinting events in international level events.

Early life

Dederick was abandoned at a city hospital's steps in Suzhou as a baby before being adopted to an orphanage. She was adopted by a volunteer at the orphanage who took her to Oxford, Alabama in 2006. After living there for almost 4 years, she then moved with her family to Spokane, Washington in 2012 . When she was brought to the United States for the first time, her adopted family and the orphanage's volunteers were able to raise funds to enable Dederick to have corrective surgery to fix her spina bifida.