Anastasia Pagonis (2024)

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How did Pagonis lose her sight? ›

At 11, she began to gradually lose her sight to Stargardt disease, an inherited form of macular degeneration causing central vision loss. Pagonis was also diagnosed with Autoimmune Retinopathy, which comprises a spectrum of retinal degenerative disorders.

Pagonis' diagnosis is autoimmune retinopathy which caused her sight to deteriorate rapidly at the age of 11, and she lost her vision by the age of 14. She has a guide dog named Radar, which she says changed her life and helped her with the depression she had due to her vision loss.

Born in 2004 in the state of New York, USA, Anastasia switched from soccer to swimming when she began to lose her sight at the age of 11. Suffering from autoimmune retinopathy, she went completely blind at the age of 14 and had to learn how to swim in the dark.

Greek American swimmer Anastasia Pagonis, who is blind, won the US' first gold in the Tokyo Paralympic Games on Thursday.

Anastasia Pagonis is a world championship and Paralympic gold medal-winning swimmer. Anastasia has a medical condition called autoimmune retinopathy. This disease affects her retinas—the part of the eye that changes light into signals.

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Pagonis lost her vision at age 14 to Stargardt's disease, a genetic disorder that causes macular degeneration. At 16, she was the first recipient of the Islanders Puppy with a Purpose program, where a guide dog, trained by the Guide Dog Foundation, was paired with her to adjust to her new circ*mstances.

With help from a servant boy, eight-year-old Anastasia escapes across a frozen pond with her grandmother, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, while Rasputin seemingly drowns in pursuit of them. However, she is separated from Marie at a train station and knocked unconscious, losing her memory.

Is Anastasia Russian or Ukrainian? ›

Anastasia was the most popular name for girls for many years in Russia until 2008, when it was surpassed by the name Sophia. It remains one of the top ten names for Russian girls, as well as for girls in Belarus, Moldova, Serbia, Georgia, and Montenegro.

"Anastasia" is a Greek name (Αναστασία), meaning "of the resurrection", a fact often alluded to later in stories about her rumored survival. Anastasia's title is most precisely translated as "Grand Princess". "Grand duch*ess" became the most widely used translation of the title into English from Russian.

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