| Bonnie Brawner | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Bonnie Brawner | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||
| Born | January 19, 1988 (age 36) | ||||||||||||||
| Hometown | Carrollton, Texas | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) | ||||||||||||||
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Bonnie Brawner is an American Paralympic volleyball player, and teacher.
She won a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Paralympics which were held in Athens, Greece. [1] [2]
The 2004 Summer Paralympics, the 12th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Athens, Greece from 17 to 28 September 2004. 3,808 athletes from 136 countries participated. During these games 304 World Records were broken with 448 Paralympic Games Records being broken across 19 different sports. 8,863 volunteers worked along the Organizing Committee.
Brazil competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004. This was the nation's nineteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics, excluding the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. The Brazilian Olympic Committee sent the nation's largest ever delegation in history to the Games. A total of 243 athletes, 124 men and 119 women, competed in 24 sports.
Volleyball at the 2004 Summer Paralympics was staged at the Helliniko Fencing Hall from 21 to 27 September. Two sitting volleyball team events were held, one for men and one for women. The sport is performed sitting down, on a smaller court with a lower net.
Sitting volleyball is a form of volleyball for athletes with a disability organized by World ParaVolley. As opposed to standing volleyball, sitting volleyball players must sit on the floor to play.
The United States sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. A total of 213 U.S. competitors took part in 18 sports; the only 2 sports Americans did not compete in were soccer 5-a-side and 7-a-side. The American delegation included 16 former members of the U.S. military, including 3 veterans of the Iraq War. Among them were shot putter Scott Winkler, who was paralyzed in an accident in Iraq, and swimmer Melissa Stockwell, a former United States Army officer who lost her left leg to a roadside bomb in the war.
Volleyball at the Summer Paralympics was first held in 1976, when the traditional form of standing volleyball for men was contested and sitting volleyball for men was a demonstration sport. From 1980 through 2000, men's standing and sitting events were contested. The women's sitting volleyball event was introduced in 2004.
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Pichet Krungget is a Paralympian athlete from Thailand competing mainly in category T53 sprint events.
Brazil competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom, from 29 August to 9 September 2012. Brazil was the next host of the Summer Paralympics, holding the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. A Brazilian segment was performed in Closing Ceremony.
Lora Jessica Webster is an American Paralympic volleyballist. She won a 2018 Theresa Award.
Allison Elizabeth Aldrich is an American Paralympic volleyballist.
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The Bosnia and Herzegovina men's national sitting volleyball team represents Bosnia and Herzegovina in international sitting volleyball competitions and friendly matches. Bosnia is one of the dominant forces in sitting volleyball worldwide, alongside Iran. The team won a bronze medal, during ECVD European Championships in 1997 in Tallinn. It took nearly two decades later for the nation to win a medal outside the sport of sitting volleyball when Amel Tuka won bronze during 2015 World Championships in Athletics.
Jolanda Slenter is a Dutch female Paralympic sitting volleyball player. She is part of the Netherlands women's national sitting volleyball team.
Brenda Maymon-Jensen is an American Paralympic sitting volleyball player. She is part of the United States women's national sitting volleyball team.
Chen Yu Ping is a Chinese Paralympic sitting volleyball player. She is part of the China women's national sitting volleyball team.
Allison Ahlfeldt is an American Paralympic volleyball player. She studied at University of California-Irvine.
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