Roman Pavlyk is a Paralympic athlete from Ukraine. He has cerebral palsy and competes in T36 sprint and F36 long jump events.
Beat Bösch is a Paralympic athlete from Switzerland competing mainly in category T52 sprint events.
Che Mian is a Paralympic athlete from China competing mainly in category T36 sprint events.
Artyom Alexandrovich Arefyev is a Paralympian athlete from Russia competing mainly in category T36 sprint events.
Wang Fang is a Paralympian athlete from China competing mainly in category T36 sprint events.
April Holmes is a Paralympic athlete from the USA competing mainly in category T44 sprint events.
Marie-Amélie Le Fur she is a French Paralympic athlete from Vendôme, Centre Region, competing in T44 sprint and F44 long jump events. Her left leg was amputated below the knee following a motor scooter accident in 2004. Before she lost her leg, she was a French junior running champion. As of 2023, Le Fur is the President of the French Paralympic and Sports Committee.
Elena Chistilina is a Paralympic athlete from Russia competing mainly in category T46 sprint events.
Alicja Anna Jeromin is a Paralympic athlete from Poland competing mainly in category T46 sprint events.
Teruyo Tanaka is a Paralympian athlete from Japan competing mainly in category T52 sprint events.
Huang Lisha is a Paralympian athlete from China competing mainly in category T53 wheelchair sprint 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.
Nantenin Keïta is a French athlete who competes mainly in Paralympic category T13 sprint events. She is the daughter of the Malian musician Salif Keita and thus a direct descendant of the founder of the Mali Empire, Sundiata Keita. Like her father, she was born with albinism, and is visually impaired.
Katrin Green is a Paralympian athlete from Germany competing mainly in category T44 sprint events.
Zhou Hongzhuan is a Chinese Paralympic athlete competing mainly in category T53 sprint and mid-distance events.
El Salvador first competed in the Paralympic Games at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia. It has participated in the Summer Paralympic Games every four years since that time. El Salvador has never taken part in the Winter Paralympics, and until Tokyo 2020, no Salvadorian had won a Paralympic medal. In 2021, Herbert Aceituno became the first athlete to win a medal, earning bronze in powerlifting at the 59 kg category.
Katherine Proudfoot is a cerebral palsy athlete from Australia competing mainly in throwing events. She competed in the F36 classification at the 2008, 2012 and the 2016 Summer Paralympics, winning medals at each Game. Following a medical review request in early 2017, she now competes in seated throws in the F32 classification. At the 2017 Australian Athletics Championships she threw 7.04m in the Women's Shot Put Secured event, bettering the Women's F32 shot put world record mark of 6.55m.
William Stedman is a New Zealand para-athlete, competing in sprints, middle-distance running and long jump events.
Rodrigo Parreira da Silva is a Brazilian Paralympic athlete.
Danielle Aitchison is a New Zealand para-athlete. She competes in the 100 metres and 200 metres in international events. She won a gold medal with a new Oceania record in the women’s 200-metre T36 at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships in Paris, France in July 2023.
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