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Paralympic athletics | ||
Representing Jordan | ||
Paralympic Games | ||
1996 Atlanta | Discus Throw - F52 |
Imad Gharbawi is a paralympic athlete from Jordan competing mainly in category F52 discus events.
Imad competed in the F52 discus finishing second behind Abdolreza Jokar who broke the world record. [1]
Aigars Apinis is a Latvian athlete. He participates in F52 class which means he has limited finger movement and no trunk or leg function.
Latvia, following its independence from the Soviet Union, made its Paralympic Games début at the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, with a delegation of two athletes in track and field. It then sent Supulnieks as its sole representative to the 1994 Winter Paralympics, for its Winter Games début. Latvia has taken part in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, but missed the 1998 and 2002 Winter Games, appearing with a one-man delegation in 2006, before being absent again in 2010.
The 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships was held in Christchurch, New Zealand from January 21 to 30, 2011. Athletes with a disability competed, and the Championships was a qualifying event for the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Wu Qing is a Paralympic athlete from China competing in throwing events in the F36 cerebral palsy classification. As of April 2014, Wu holds F36 World Records for shot put, discus and javelin.
Birgit Pohl was a German Paralympian athlete competing mainly in throwing events.
Tetyana Yakybchuk, ,(born 21 November 1968) is a Paralympian track and field athlete from Ukraine competing mainly in throwing events.
Frances Herrmann is a Paralympian athlete from Germany competing mainly in category F34 throwing events.
Yousra Ben Jemaa is a Paralympian athlete from Tunisia competing mainly in category F32-34/51-53 throwing events.
Kyle Pettey is a Paralympian athlete from Canada competing mainly in category F35 shot put events.
Abdolreza Jokar is a Paralympian athlete from Iran competing mainly in category F53 javelin events.
Oleksandr Iasynovyi is a visually impaired Paralympic athlete from Ukraine. He competes in throwing events, specialising in discus.
Javad Hardani is a Paralympic athlete from Iran. He competes in throwing events, and is classified F38, a class for athletes with cerebral palsy.
Roman Musil is a Paralympian athlete from the Czech Republic competing mainly in category F33 throwing events.
Peter Raymon Martin is a Paralympian athlete from New Zealand competing in seated throwing events. He is a farmer, and became quadriplegic after sustaining a spinal injury in a farm bike accident. He competes in the F52 classification.
T52 is disability sport classification for disability athletics. People in this class have good shoulder and upper body control, but lack fine motor skills in their arms and hands. They have no to limited trunk and leg function. The class includes people with a number of different types of disabilities including spinal cord injuries. Similar classifications are T51, T53 and T54.
Cristeen Smith is a paralympic athlete from New Zealand competing mainly in category T52 track events and F53 Field events.
Sergei Vladimirovich Khodakov was a paralympic athlete from Russia competing mainly in category F12 throwing events.
Alphanso Cunningham is a Paralympian athlete from Jamaica competing mainly in category F53 throwing events.
Fatema Nedham is a Paralympic athlete from Bahrain. She is the first female Paralympic athlete to win a medal at the Summer Paralympics for Bahrain. She represented the country at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and she won the gold medal in the women's shot put F53 event with a throw of 4.76 metres. She was also the flag bearer for her country during the opening ceremony of the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
Piotr Kosewicz is a Polish Paralympic athlete. He is also a photographer.