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Utahn on podium in Italy for snowshoeing at Special Olympics World Winter Games

Michele Roepke

Michele Roepke
Mar 14, 2025

Hyrum Palmer, right, stands on the third-place podium in Italy for snowshoeing at the Winter Games.

Hyrum Palmer, right, stands on the third-place podium in Italy for snowshoeing at the Winter Games. Photo: Special Olympics of Utah.

TORINO, Italy—Hyrum Palmer of the Special Olympics of Utah (SOUT) won the bronze medal in the 800-meter snowshoeing division at the Special Olympics World Winter Games in Torino, Italy, on Thursday. 

Hyrum Palmer in Italy.
Hyrum Palmer in Italy. Photo courtesy of Special Olympics of Utah.

“Way to go, Hyrum! It’s an incredible achievement on the world stage,” wrote SOUT coaches in Italy, on social media.

“Representing Team USA with determination, heart, hard work, and sportsmanship, Hyrum is making us all proud,” they added.

Palmer competes in the 4×100 relay and 400m over the weekend.

If you’d like to learn how you can donate to SOUT which supports the athletic endeavors of the Park City Mountaineers Team and the Heber City Howlers Team, you can click here. 

Check out the fast feet in this global sport video.

Michele Roepke
By: Michele Roepke

I've lived in Park City for 30 years but right off the starting line, my journalism professors expressed plaudits after class for writing more so about the small-town sports in the surrounding mountains than the urban updates they assigned. Therefore, I’m on par punning and penning Parkites' pastimes. Turning high and early through my career, I’ve worked communications for The Olympics, the Paralympics and the Special Olympics. Additionally, there's been National Geographic, Patagonia, NCAA, USA Nordic and the United States Library of Congress, so I guess you could say this ain't my first rodeo.

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