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The 2016 Summer Paralympics, the 15th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016. The Games marked the first time a Latin American and South American city hosted the event, the second Southern Hemisphere city and nation, the first one being the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, and also the first time a Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) country hosted the event. These Games saw the introduction of two new sports to the Paralympic program: canoeing and the paratriathlon.
Franziska Weber is a German sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s.
Alejandra Valencia Trujillo is a Mexican archer.
Jan-Philip Glania is a German swimmer who specialises in the backstroke.
Bastian Steger is a German table tennis player. He competed for Germany at the 2012 Summer Olympics where he won a bronze medal in the team event. He also won the bronze medal in the men's team event during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Berit Lisa Matilda Ericson, known as Lisa Ericson, is a Swedish sports sailor. She competed in the Women's 470 class at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 49er FX event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Annika Zeyen is a former 1.5-point wheelchair basketball player, who has played for ASV Bonn, RSV Lahn-Dill and BG Baskets Hamburg in the German wheelchair basketball league, and for the University of Alabama in the United States. She has represented her country a total of 382 times in which she won six European titles, was the runner-up at 2010 and 2014 World Championships, won silver medals at the 2008 Summer Paralympic Games in Beijing and 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, and won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, for which President Joachim Gauck awarded the team Germany's highest sporting honour, the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt . Following the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, Zeyen retired from wheelchair basketball to pursue alternative sporting challenges as an individual athlete.
Canada competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016.
Algeria competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016.
Huang Lizhu is a Chinese competitive sailor. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in the women's 470 class.
Linda Fahrni is a Swiss competitive sailor. She competed for Switzerland at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in the women's 470 class, and at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, also in the women's 470 class.
Maja Siegenthaler is a Swiss competitive sailor. She and Linda Fahrni competed for Switzerland at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's 470 class, and at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the women's 470 class.
Afrodite Zegers as Afrodite Kyranakou) is a Greek born Dutch competitive sailor. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the women's 470 class, and at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in the women's 470 class.
Marlene Steinherr is a German sailor specializing in the 470 (dinghy) class. She represented Germany, along with partner Annika Bochmann, in the women's 470 class at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. They finished in 18th place.
Anika Lorenz is a German sailor. She represented Germany, along with partner Victoria Jurczok, in the women's 49er FX class at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. They finished in 9th place.
Kim Chang-ju is a South Korean sailor. He and Kim Ji-hoon placed 19th in the men's 470 event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Kim Ji-hoon is a South Korean sailor. He and Kim Chang-ju placed 19th in the men's 470 event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Elena Berta is an Italian sailor. She and Alice Sinno placed 19th in the women's 470 event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. and placed 13th in 470 at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Amanda Ng Ling Kai is a Singaporean sailor. She and Jovina Choo placed 20th in the women's 470 event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She also placed 26th in the women's RS:X event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, placed 4th in the women's RS:X event at the 2018 Asian Games, and won a bronze medal in the women's Mistral One Design event at the 2011 Southeast Asian Games.
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- ↑ "BOCHMANN Annika". Rio2016.com. Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
- ↑ "470 Women". Rio2016.com. Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 18 September 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
