Medal record | ||
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Track and field (athletics) | ||
Representing China | ||
Paralympic Games | ||
2000 Sydney | High Jump - F42 | |
2004 Athens | High Jump - F42 |
Guo Wei Zhong is a paralympic athlete from China competing mainly in category F42 high and long jump events.
Guo Wei Zhong has competed in both the 2000 and 2004 Summer Paralympics, on both occasion he competed in the long jump and won silver in the high jump. [1]
China was the host of the 2008 Summer Paralympics, held in Beijing. China's delegation included 547 people, of whom 332 were competitors. The athletes, 197 men and 135 women, ranged in age from 15 to 51 and competed in all twenty sports. 226 of the competitors participated in the Paralympic Games for the first time. The delegation was the largest in Chinese history and at the 2008 Games. China topped the medal count at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens. China dominated the medal count winning the most gold, silver, bronze, and total medals by a wide margin in Beijing.
Jeff Skiba is a police officer and a Paralympic athlete from the United States competing mainly in category P44 pentathlon events.
Ihar Fartunau is a visually impaired Paralympic athlete from Belarus.
Myanmar has been a sporadic participant in the Paralympic Games. It first competed, as Burma, at the 1976 Summer Paralympics in Toronto, with a delegation in track and field and shooting. These athletes were fairly successful, Tin Ngwe becoming Burma's first Paralympic champion by winning the men's 100m sprint in the C1 category. Aung Than won silver in the same event, while Tin Win took bronze in the men's 100m in category C. Burma was absent from the 1980 Games, returning in 1984 to take part in volleyball and track and field. Tin Ngwe, in category A3, won gold in the men's high jump, and silver in the long jump, while Aung Gyi won silver and bronze, respectively, in those same two events. In both Burma's appearances in the Paralympics, it fielded all-male delegations.
Guo Wei is a Chinese Paralympic athlete competing mainly in category F35 field events.
Angola competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, United States. It was the country's first ever participation at the Paralympic Games, as the lengthy Angolan Civil War continued. It was represented by two athletes, who both competed in men's track and field events, without winning a medal.
David Roos is a South African Paralympian athlete who competes mainly in category F46 sprints, long and high jump events.
Reinhold Bötzel is a paralympic athlete from Germany competing mainly in category F46 high jump and long jump events.
Wu Yancong is a paralympic athlete from China competing mainly in category F46 high jump events.
Wang Qiu Hong is a paralympic athlete from China competing mainly in category F44 long and high jump events.
José Manuel Rodríguez Ibáñez is a paralympic athlete from Spain competing mainly in category F11 long and triple jump events.
Alejo José Vélez Cucalón is a paralympic athlete from Spain competing mainly in category F11 jumping events.
The Men's long jump F36-38 events for athletes with cerebral palsy was held at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in the Athens Olympic Stadium. It was won by Guo Wei, representing China.
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The China men's national volleyball team represents China in international volleyball competitions and friendly matches, governed by Chinese Volleyball Association. The team now ranks 26th in the FIVB World Rankings and the current head coach is Vital Heynen.
Datuk Abdul Latif bin Romly is a Malaysian Paralympic athlete who broke T20 long jump world record 3 times on the same day and won Malaysia's third gold medal on 11 September at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. He also won the gold medal in the men's long jump T20 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan. He is Malaysia's most decorated Paralympian.
Zhong Huanghao is a Chinese Paralympic athlete with cerebral palsy. He won the silver medal in the men's long jump T38 event at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
Roni Fradkin competed for Israel in men's standing volleyball at the 1976 Summer Paralympics, 1980 Summer Paralympics, 1984 Summer Paralympics and 1988 Summer Paralympics. As a member of the Israeli team, he won gold medals in 1976, 1980, and 1984 and a silver medal in 1988.
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