What is the closest a disabled person has come to winning a medal in any able-bodied olympics?

Question

What is the closest a disabled person has come to winning a medal in any able-bodied olympics?

Answer 1

re-read your question and you should answer yourself.

Answer 2

There is a man, at present, who is a double amputee - both legs.  He is suspected of being fast enough to beat able-bodied Olympians in sprints (200m, 400m, 800m I forget which).

His prostheses look really strange; a springy very curved ski looking shape.  People are concerned that these give him too much advantage!