 Ribeiro de Carvalho in 2017 | ||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Brazil | |||||||||||||
| Sport | Paracanoe | |||||||||||||
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Caio Ribeiro de Carvalho is a Brazilian paracanoeist. [1] [2] [3] He participated at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the paracanoeing competition, being awarded the bronze medal in the men's KL3 event. [4]
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Henry Manni is a Finnish athlete and paracanoeist who has competed and medaled in both fields at World Championship level. In Paracanoeing he won a bronze medal in the K-1 200 m TA event at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań. Manni later switched to athletics as a wheelchair sprinter in the T34 classification. In 2013 he won a bronze in the World Championships in the 200m event, following this with four golds in the 2014 European Championships and three further World championship medals in 2015.
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Events in the year 1948 in Brazil.
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Jeanette Clare Chippington, is a British Paralympic swimmer and paracanoeist. Chippington has represented Great Britain at seven Paralympics, five in swimming Summer Paralympics, 1988 Seoul, 1992 Barcelona, 1996 Atlanta, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004. Competing as a S6 classification swimmer she favoured mainly 50 m and 100m freestyle competitions. After retiring from swimming Chippington returned to disability sport, becoming a world class paracanoeist, winning gold at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and bronze at 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.
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