Luís Gonçalves is a Portuguese visually-impaired sprint runner, who competes mainly in category T12 events.
Paulo de Almeida Coelho, ComIH is a Paralympic track and field athlete from Portugal competing mainly in category T11 track running events.
Gabriel Potra is a Paralympian athlete from Portugal. He mainly competes in category T12 sprint events.
Carlos Conceição Lopes, GOIH is a former Portuguese paralympian athlete who competed mainly in category T11 sprint events.
Jose Gameiro is a Paralympic athlete from Portugal competing mainly in category T11 sprint events.
Oleksandr Ivaniukhin is a Paralympian athlete from Ukraine competing mainly in category T11 sprint events.
Matthias Schröder, also spelled Schroeder, is a visually impaired Paralympic athlete from Germany competing in T12 (track) and F12 (field) events.
Francis Thuo Karanja is a Kenyan Paralympian athlete competing mainly in category T11 long-distance events.
Ildar Pomykalov is a Paralympian athlete from Russia competing mainly in category T12 long-distance events.
Hiroki Sasahara is a Paralympian athlete from Japan competing mainly in category T54 long-distance events.
Terezinha Guilhermina is a Paralympic athlete from Brazil competing mainly in category T11 sprint events, T11 being the category for totally blind athletes. She has congenital retinitis pigmentosa, as do five of her twelve brothers.
Sergey Sevostianov,, sometimes Sergei Sevastianov, is a blind Paralympian track and field athlete from Russia competing in pentathlon and jumping events.
Tofiri Kibuuka is an Ugandan-born Norwegian athlete. He has participated in both the Winter Paralympic Games, in cross-country skiing and in the Summer Paralympic Games, in mid- and long-distance running. Active from 1976 to 2000, he won five Paralympic silver medals, and one bronze.
Marathon events have been held at the Summer Paralympic Games, for both men and women, since the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville and New York City. They are held as part of the Paralympic athletics programme.
Andrea Cionna is an Italian athlete from Osimo in the Province of Ancona. He holds the world record for the fastest marathon run by a totally blind man, set in 2:31:59 in Rome in 2007, and has won two bronze medals in blind long-distance running at the Paralympic Games.
The Men's marathon T11 was a marathon event in athletics at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, for totally blind athletes. Defending champion Harumi Yanagawa of Japan took part, as did 1992 gold medallist Carlo Durante of Italy, and 1988 gold medallist Joerund Gaasemyr or Norway, holder of the Paralympic record in 2:45:48. There were thirteen starters, from nine countries; twelve of them reached the finish line. Portugal's Carlos Amaral Ferreira took gold, setting a new world record in 2:38:27, and finishing over nine minutes ahead of silver medallist Robert Matthews.
The Men's marathon T11 was a marathon event in athletics at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, for totally blind athletes. Defending champion and world record holder Carlos Amaral Ferreira of Portugal took part, along with sixteen other athletes, from a total of ten countries. No athlete had ever successfully defended his title in the men's fully blind marathon, and Ferreira failed to become the first; he took silver, finishing half a minute behind Japan's Yuichi Takahashi.
Carlo Durante was an Italian paralympic athlete, who mainly competed in category T11 marathon events.
Nicolás Ledezma is a paralympic athlete from Mexico competing mainly in category T11 long-distance events.
Kenya competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom from August 29 to September 9, 2012, where they were represented by thirteen athletes who won six medals at these games, two gold, two silver and two bronze. All the country's Paralympians competed in athletics. Kenya had originally qualified a larger team, and in more sports like powerlifting and rowing.
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