{"id":192736,"date":"2026-03-15T20:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T20:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192736\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T20:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T20:37:07","slug":"tampas-declan-farmer-wins-fourth-gold-medal-as-u-s-para-hockey-team-beats-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192736\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa’s Declan Farmer wins fourth gold medal as U.S. Para hockey team beats Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was no hat trick for Tampa\u2019s Declan Farmer on Sunday, only his fourth straight gold medal in Paralympics sled hockey.<\/p>\n

Instead, the three-goal game was left to teammate Jack Wallace, who led Team USA to a 6-2 victory over Canada at the Mila- Cortina Winter Games.<\/p>\n

Wallace\u2019s first hat trick of the Games helped give the Americans their fifth consecutive gold medal and sixth overall since the sport joined the Winter Games lineup in 1994.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis team is so special,\u201d Wallace said. \u201cWe love each other. This team grinded it out, a gritty game. It was unbelievable. I love these guys so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

The victory gave U.S. Hockey a three-gold sweep in Italy over its northern neighbors, with the Para hockey team joining the men\u2019s and women\u2019s Olympics squads back in February.<\/p>\n

Rookie Kayden Beasley added the fourth U.S. goal before Farmer put in his Games-leading 15th and Brody Roybal, another four-time Paralympian, supplied an empty-netter.<\/p>\n

Farmer, the 28-year-old Berkeley Prep graduate, who tallied a hat trick in all four previous games as Team USA breezed to the finale, was tightly marked by the Canadians. But his 200-foot game was a big part of the American\u2019s defensive approach.<\/p>\n

ALSO READ: Tampa’s Declan Farmer pilots U.S. to Paralympics sled hockey gold-medal game<\/a><\/p>\n

Before his assist on Wallace\u2019s second goal, Farmer\u2019s only appearance on the scoresheet were two minor penalties. The latter, a tripping call 3:31 into the second period, led to Liam Hickey\u2019s power play goal that tied the game at 1-all.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really easy to play defense when these guys are grinding below the goal lines,\u201d Wallace said. \u201cSo, I mean, I feel like I got pretty lucky. I mean, it just means the world for this team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beasley and Wallace followed with goals that allowed the U.S. to pull away.<\/p>\n

Farmer leaves Italy with a tournament-best 15 goals and 25 assists, who ice his spot in the career record book. He holds the all-time assists record with 65 in 18 games.<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s tops in international goals (255), assists (191) and points (445), and the leader in Paralympics goals (36).<\/p>\n

The other Floridian at the Paralympics, 19-year-old Brett Bolton, of Rockledge, finished with four goals and an assist in his first appearance in a Winter Games. The sophomore at the University of Colorado regularly trains with Farmer.<\/p>\n

U.S. captain Josh Pauls earned his fifth straight gold medal. <\/p>\n

It was Canada\u2019s third straight loss to the U.S. in the gold-medal game. The Canadians only gold came in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was no hat trick for Tampa\u2019s Declan Farmer on Sunday, only his fourth straight gold medal in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-192736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}