A Winston-Salem man was on the U.S. team that won the silver medal today in a rowing event in the Paralympics in Beijing.
Jamie Dean, who is in a combined law/MBA program at Wake Forest University, was a member of the team that won the 1,000-meter race in the mixed-coxed-four division. The Italian team won the gold, and the team from Great Britain took the bronze.
Dean, 26, has retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited eye disease that gradually destroys the retina and optic nerve. He can still perceive light to some degree but cannot make out objects.
Dean has an undergraduate degree from Wake Forest and is in the final year of a four-year program that will give him both a law degree and an MBA.
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