David Howe (athlete)

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David Howe
Medal record
Paralympic athletics
Representing Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Paralympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1992 Barcelona 5000 metres - C5-8
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1988 Seoul 5000 metres Cross Country - C7xxx

David Howe is a paralympic athlete from Canada competing mainly in category T38 middle-distance events.

Howe competed in four Paralympics, winning two medals. In 1988 he competed in the javelin, 800m, 1500m and won a bronze medal in the 5000m Cross Country race for C7 athletes. In the 1992 Summer Paralympics he won a silver in the 5000m as well as competing in the 1500m. 1996 saw him in the 1500m and 5000m again but with no medals, and 2000 saw the same result from the 5000m. [1]

After his athletic career, Howe worked as a journalist for the magazine Run, Jump, Throw. Based on his experiences working as a journalist at the 2004 Paralympics in Athens, he wrote an academic article about media coverage of competitive sports for disabled people. [2]

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References

  1. profile on paralympic.org
  2. Howe, P. David (2008). "From Inside the Newsroom". International Review for the Sociology of Sport. 43 (2): 135–150. doi:10.1177/1012690208095376. S2CID   146777777.