Lindsey Vonn, Michael Phelps amongst these heading to U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Corridor of Fame

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Lindsey Vonn, Michelle Kwan, Mia Hamm, Billie Jean King and the late Pat Summitt are among the many 9 particular person girls who will probably be inducted into the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Corridor of Fame this summer time, together with Michael Phelps and hurdling nice Roger Kingdom.

Others voted onto the 2022 class on a crowded poll had been Natalie Coughlin (swimming), Muffy Davis (Para Alpine snowboarding and biking), David Kiley (Para Alpine snowboarding, observe and subject and wheelchair basketball), Trischa Zorn-Hudson (Para swimming) and Gretchen Fraser (snowboarding).

The 1976 girls’s 4×100 freestyle relay swimming workforce, anchored by Shirley Babashoff in its gorgeous upset over the East Germans, and the 2002 males’s Paralympic sled hockey workforce additionally had been voted into the corridor by a mixture of Olympic and Paralympic athletes, media and directors and followers.

The induction ceremony is ready for June 24 on the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum.

That is the primary corridor class since 2019; earlier than that, there hadn’t been a category since 2012. The gaps have led to a big checklist of worthy candidates. Amongst those that didn’t make the lower this yr are Bode Miller, Julia Mancuso, Daybreak Staley and two-time Olympic gold-medal wrestler John Smith.

Led by a record-setting 28 medals and 23 golds gained by Phelps, this yr’s class has captured a complete of 129 medals, together with 86 gold medals.