Noelle Lambert

Noelle Lambert, also known as Noelle Lambert-Beirne, is an American Paralympic track and field athlete and motivational speaker, born on 24 January 1997 in Londonderry, New Hampshire. She played Division I lacrosse at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where she studied criminal justice, and lost her left leg in a moped accident on Martha's Vineyard in 2016. She placed sixth in the 100 metres T63 at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo with an American record time of 15.97, then trained in the long jump and finished fourth in the T63 long jump at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. She became the first American T63 woman to jump beyond 5 metres, and at the 2025 World Championships in New Delhi she won her first world medal, a bronze in the long jump. She founded The Born to Run Foundation, which helps young adults and children get prostheses, and finished eighth on Survivor 43.