Luís Gonçalves is a Portuguese visually-impaired sprint runner, who competes mainly in category T12 events.
José Rodolfo Alves is a Paralympic athlete from Portugal. He mainly competes in category T13 sprint 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.
Thomas Ulbricht is a Paralympian athlete from Germany competing mainly in category P12 pentathlon and T12 sprint events.
Supachai Koysub is an athlete and Paralympian from Thailand competing mainly in category T54 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.
Odair Santos is a visually impaired Paralympian athlete from Brazil competing mainly in T11 classification middle and long-distance events. A veteran of four Paralympics, Santos has won nine Paralympic medals, including five silver medals. Santos is also a four time IPC World champion at the 1,500 metres event, being unbeaten from 2006 to 2015.
Ignacio Ávila Rodríguez is a Paralympian athlete and cyclist from Spain competing mainly in category T12 middle-distance events in athletics, and in track time trial, track pursuit, road time trial and road race.
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.
Ihar Fartunau is a visually impaired Paralympic athlete from Belarus.
Rayk Haucke is a Paralympian athlete from Germany competing mainly in category P11 pentathlon events.
Olga Semenova is a Paralympian athlete from Russia competing mainly in category P13 sprint events. She formerly competed in P11 pentathlon events.
André Andrade is a Paralympic athlete from Brazil competing mainly in category T13 sprints events.
César Carlavilla Cubillo is a paralympic athlete from Spain competing mainly in category T12 middle-distance events.
José Antonio Sánchez is a paralympic athlete from Spain competing mainly in category T11 800m events.
The 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships was the biggest track and field competition for athletes with a disability since the 2012 Summer Paralympics. It was held in Lyon, France, and lasted from 20 to 28 July. Around 1,100 athletes competed, from 94 different countries. The event was held in the Stade du Rhône located at the Parc de Parilly in Vénissieux, in Lyon Metropolis.
Johannes Nambala is a Paralympian athlete from Namibia competing mainly in category T13 sprint events. In 2013 he became the first Namibian to win a gold medal at an IPC Athletics World Championships, when he won the 400m sprint in Lyon. As well as World Championship success Nambala has also won two silver Paralympic medals, both silver, and both won at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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