Ari Gesini

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Ari Gesini
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Ari Gesini in 2019
Personal information
NationalityAustralian
Born (2001-12-23) 23 December 2001 (age 21)
Canberra, Australia
Sport
CountryFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
SportPara-Athletics
Event(s)T38 Long jump
ClubACT Para-Athletics Talent Squad
Coached bySebastian Kuzminski and Iryna Dvoskina
Achievements and titles
World finalsWorld Para-Athletics Championships 2019, Dubai
Personal best(s)6.21m

Ari Gesini (born 23 December 2001) is an Australian Paralympic athlete in the T38 class. Ari competes in the long jump and 100m sprint. He made his Paralympic debut at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo. [1]

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Personal

Ari Gesini was born on 23 December 2001. He was diagnosed with left-sided hemiplegic cerebral palsy at age three. He lives in Canberra and attended Telopea Park School (Lycee Franco-Australian de Canberra) from 2007 to 2017. He also attended Narrabundah College from 2018 to 2019. [2] Gesini is currently studying a Bachelor of Science in Psychology at the University of Canberra. [3]

Athletics

Gesini commenced participating in sport to assist his coordination and mobility. He is classified as a T38 athlete. His first athletics coach in Canberra was Chris Timpson. At the age of thirteen, Iryna Dvoskina invited Gesini to join her elite para-athletics squad based at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.

Gesini won the gold medal in the Men's Long Jump T35-38 at the 2017 World Junior Championships in Nottwil, Switzerland. At the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai, he finished fourth with a jump of 6.16 m, an Oceanic record, and 12th in the Men's 100m T38 with a PB of 12.05 seconds. [3]

Australian athlete Ari Gesini with a photo of his dad, Steve, who died in June 2021, a few months before Gesini competed at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Gesini Tokyo MM edit.jpg
Australian athlete Ari Gesini with a photo of his dad, Steve, who died in June 2021, a few months before Gesini competed at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games

In 2022 Ari holds the T38 long jump Oceanic Record of 6.21m, which he jumped at the 2022 Oceania Athletics Championships in Mackay.

At the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, he finished seventh in his heat of the Men's 100m T38 and 11th in the Men's Long Jump T38. [4]

In 2022, he is coached by Iryna Dvoskina and Sebastian Kuzminski at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra. [5]

Recognition

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