Wheelchair racing harness gloves worn by Arielle Rausin
name: label: user
content: Rausin, Arielle
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One pair of black leather wheelchair racing harness gloves with a velcro and nylon bands at the wrist for securing to the hands, The gloves have two areas for the fingers and a large leather and plastic bands attached to the top of the glove to wrap around the wheelchair wheel to secure the hand to the wheel. The velcro strap attaches to the thumb area of the glove. There is green duct tape affixed to the top of the glove just above a reinforcing piece of plastic which covers the back of the glove.
label: Description (Brief)
content: In 2003, Rausin, then 10 years old, was in a catastrophic car accident that paralyzed her from the waist down. She began wheelchair racing in 2012 and became a member of the Paralympic wheelchair racing team. As a college student enrolled in a maker class, Rausin, with inspiration and encouragement from coach Adam Bleakney, fulfilled a course assignment by replicating her handmade pair of $350 racing gloves. As a result of her success using this prototype as well as her teammates’ who also benefited in competition from using gloves she had custom fabricated for them, Rausin founded Ingenium Manufacturing in 2016 to produce 3D printed racing gloves for wheelchair athletes.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: wheelchair racing
label: web subject
content: Adaptive Sports
label: web subject
content: Women
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Sports & Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2021.0203.04
label: accession number
content: 2021.0203
label: catalog number
content: 2021.0203.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gloves, wheelchair racing
label: Object Name
content: glove, wheelchair racing
label: Object Name
content: wheelchair racing gloves
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: nylon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: velcro (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 6 in x 2 1/4 in; 22.86 cm x 15.24 cm x 5.715 cm