Medal record | ||
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Paralympic athletics | ||
Representing Mexico | ||
Paralympic Games | ||
1996 Atlanta | 10000 metres - T10 | |
1996 Atlanta | 5000 metres - T10 |
Alejandro Guerrero is a paralympic athlete from Mexico competing mainly in category T11 distance running events.
Alejandro was part of the Mexican team who travelled to Atlanta for the 1996 Summer Paralympics, there he competed in the 5000m where he won the silver medal and also in the 10000m where he won the gold medal. He also competed in the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney in the same two events but without any medal success. [1]
Salvador Hernández Mondragón is an athlete and Paralympian from Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico competing mainly in category T51/T52 wheelchair racing events.
Fanie van der Merwe is a Paralympic athlete from South Africa competing mainly in category T37 sprint events.
Beat Bösch is a Paralympic athlete from Switzerland competing mainly in category T52 sprint events.
Leo-Pekka Tähti is an athlete and Paralympian from Finland competing mainly in category T54 sprint events.
Richard Andrew Colman is an Australian Paralympic athlete, competing mainly in category T53 sprint events. He was born with spina bifida. He represented Australia at the four Paralympics - 2004 to 2016.
Thomas Geierspichler is a Paralympic wheelchair racer from Austria. He competes in the T52 classification.
Ignacio Ávila Rodríguez is a Paralympian athlete and cyclist from Spain competing mainly in category T12 middle-distance events in athletics, and in track time trial, track pursuit, road time trial and road race.
Sergey Sevostianov,, sometimes Sergei Sevastianov, is a blind Paralympian track and field athlete from Russia competing in pentathlon and jumping events
Mexico made its Paralympic Games début at the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg, with a delegation of seven athletes competing in track and field, swimming, weightlifting and wheelchair fencing. It has competed in every edition of the Summer Paralympics since then, and made its Winter Paralympics début in 2006.
Myanmar has been a sporadic participant in the Paralympic Games. It first competed, as Burma, at the 1976 Summer Paralympics in Toronto, with a delegation in track and field and shooting. These athletes were fairly successful, Tin Ngwe becoming Burma's first Paralympic champion by winning the men's 100m sprint in the C1 category. Aung Than won silver in the same event, while Tin Win took bronze in the men's 100m in category C. Burma was absent from the 1980 Games, returning in 1984 to take part in volleyball and track and field. Tin Ngwe, in category A3, won gold in the men's high jump, and silver in the long jump, while Aung Gyi won silver and bronze, respectively, in those same two events. In both Burma's appearances in the Paralympics, it fielded all-male delegations.
Algeria competed at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia. It was the country's third participation in the Summer Paralympic Games. Its delegation consisted in six track and field athletes and two competitors in powerlifting. Sprinter Mohamed Allek, who has cerebral palsy, won all of Algeria's medals at these Games - three gold.
Edgar Cesáreo Navarro Sánchez is a Paralympic athlete from Mexico competing mainly in category T51 wheelchair racing events.
Araceli Castro is a paralympic athlete from Mexico competing mainly in category F41 throwing events.
Phelipe Andrews Melo Rodrigues is a paralympic swimmer from Brazil competing mainly in category S10 events. He was born with a club foot and had two surgeries when he was just four weeks old. After his second surgery when his foot was in the right position he had an infection which made under his knee and specially his tendon stop to grown disabling his right foot movements so as weakness from his knee below. He started swimming when he was 8 months as physiotherapy. He also tried many different sports but his passion since a child was swimming.
Juana Soto is a paralympic athlete from Mexico competing mainly in category TW4 sprint events.
Paul Nitz is a paralympic athlete from the United States competing mainly in category T52 sprint events.
Gustavo Sánchez Martínez is a Mexican competitive swimmer, born without left hand and both legs, who won four medals for Mexico at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. He competed in five events, 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 200m freestyle, 150m medley, 50m backstroke. Gustavo became well known at World Championships in Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2010, where he won three bronze medals. His biggest rivals in the pools are David Smetanine from France and Richard Oribe from Spain.
Ursula Sarahí González Zárate is a Mexican sabre fencer. She won a silver medal, as a member of the host nation's fencing team, in the same weapon at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Mozambique made its Paralympic Games début at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, sending two visually impaired athletes to compete in track events.
Akeem Stewart is a Trinidad and Tobago Paralympic athlete competing in F43/F44-classification discus throw, javelin throw and shot put events.