Gino De Keersmaeker is an athlete and Paralympian from Belgium competing mainly in category F42 discus throw and shot put events. He competed in all 6 Paralympic Games between 1992 and 2012, winning a gold medal in 1996 and silver medals in 2000 and 2004.
Namibia made its Paralympic Games début at the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona. These were the first Summer Paralympics to be held since the country's accession to independence from South Africa in 1990, and thus the first Games in which Namibia was able to take part. For its inaugural participation, the country sent just two athletes, both women, who both competed in discus, javelin and shot put. They did not win any medals.
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.
Eucharia Njideka Iyiazi is a Paralympian athlete from Nigeria competing mainly in category F57/58 shot put and discus throw events. She has competed at four paralympics taking two gold, a silver and two bronze medals.
Mi Na is a Chinese Paralympic athlete who competes in throwing events for F37 classification cerebral palsy athletes.
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.
Marianne Buggenhagen is a Paralympian athlete from Germany competing mainly in throwing events.
Tamara Sivakova is a Paralympian athlete from Belarus competing mainly in the throwing events.
Eva Berná, also known as Eva Datinská, is a Paralympian athlete from the Czech Republic competing mainly in category F37 shot put events.
Renata Chilewska is a Paralympian athlete from Poland competing mainly in the throwing events.
Jacques Martin was a paralympic athlete from Canada competing mainly in category F55 throwing events.
Rolandas Urbonas is a paralympic athlete from Lithuania competing mainly in category F12 shot and discus events.
Anderson Lopes Santos is a Paralympic athlete from Brazil competing mainly in category F37 throwing events.
Janusz Rokicki is a paralympic athlete from Poland competing mainly in category F57 shot put and discus events.
Sun Hai Tao is a paralympic athlete from China competing mainly in category F12 throws events.
Suely Guimarães is a paralympic athlete from Brazil competing mainly in category F56 throwing events.
Claudiney Batista dos Santos is a Brazilian Paralympian athlete competing in category F57/T57 throwing events. He won a silver medal in the javelin throw at the 2012 Paralympics and a gold medal in the discus throw at the 2016 Rio Games.
Jonathan de Souza Santos is a Paralympian athlete from Brazil competing mainly in F41 classification throwing events.
Diāna Krumina née Dadzīte is a Latvian Paralympic track and field athlete competing in shot put, discus and javelin throw, and is twice Paralympic javelin champion.
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.
