Medal record | ||
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Paralympic athletics | ||
Representing Egypt | ||
Paralympic Games | ||
2004 Athens | Discus Throw - F53 |
Mohamed Hassani is a paralympic athlete from Egypt competing mainly in category F53 discus events.
Mohamed competed in the 1996 Summer Paralympics in the F53 discus. Having missed the 2000 games he returned in 2004 to win the bronze medal in the F53 discus. [1]
Bahrain made its Paralympic Games début the same year as its Olympic début, at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in Stoke Mandeville and New York City, sending a delegation to compete in athletics. The country has participated in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, but has never taken part in the Winter Paralympics.
Mauro Máximo de Jesús is a Paralympian athlete from Mexico who has competed mainly in category F53 throwing events.
Abdolreza Jokar is a Paralympian athlete from Iran competing mainly in category F53 javelin events.
Draženko Mitrović is a Paralympian athlete from Serbia competing mainly in category F53/54 discus events.
Tanto Campbell is a Paralympian athlete from Jamaica competing mainly in category F56 discus events.
Toshie Oi is a Paralympian athlete from Japan competing mainly in category F53 discus events.
Christos Angourakis was a Greek Paralympic athlete who competed mainly in category F53 throwing events.
Fan Liang is a Paralympian athlete from China competing mainly in category F54 discus events.
Bruce Wallrodt, was an Australian Paralympic athlete. He competed at five Paralympic Games and won nine medals, four of them gold.
T53 is disability sport classification for disability athletics. The class includes people with a number of different types of disabilities including spinal cord injuries. People in this class have full use of their arms but have no or limited trunk function. Similar classifications are T51, T52, and T54. People in this class have a functional upper limbs, but limited trunk usage and limited lower limb functionality. During classification, they both undergo a bench test of muscle strength and demonstrate their skills in athletics. People in this class include Tanni Grey-Thompson (GBR), Samantha Kinghorn (GBR), Angie Ballard (AUS) and Richard Colman (AUS).
Mokhtar Nourafshan was an Iranian paralympic athlete competing mainly in category F53 throwing events.
Leon Labuschagne is a paralympic athlete from South Africa competing mainly in category F53 shot and discus events.
Cristeen Smith is a paralympic athlete from New Zealand competing mainly in category T52 track events and F53 Field events.
Men's discus throw events for wheelchair athletes were held at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in the Athens Olympic Stadium. Events were held in eight disability classes, F51 being held jointly with F32 cerebral palsy athletes.
Alphanso Cunningham is a Paralympian athlete from Jamaica competing mainly in category F53 throwing events.
Robert Jachimowicz is a Paralympian athlete from Poland competing in category F53 throwing events. He has competed at one Summer Paralympics, in Sydney 2000 and at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha he won the silver medal in the discus throw.
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.
Elizabeth Rodrigues Gomes is a Brazilian paralympic athlete, who competes in the F52 class. She won the gold medal in the women's discus throw F53 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Iana Lebiedieva is a Ukrainian Paralympic athlete competing in F53-classification events. She won the silver medal in the women's discus throw F53 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan.
Aleš Kisý is a Czech Paralympic athlete. He has represented Czech Republic at the Paralympics on five occasions in 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020.