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Sirly Tiik (born 4 September 1974 in Tallinn) [1] is an Estonian Paralympic athlete with an intellectual disability. At the 2000 Sydney Paralympics, she won a gold medal in the Women's Javelin F20 event and two bronze medals in the Women's High Jump F20 and Women's Shot Put F20 events. [2] She received a letter from Estonian President Lennart Meri for her achievement. [3]
Estonia have competed at the Paralympic Games since the 1992 Summer events. Estonian Paralympic Committee was founded on April, 1991. Best athlete Marge Kõrkjas has performed in four Paralympics and won always at least one medal, total of 7. The two other gold medalists are Annely Ojastu and Sirly Tiik.
Estonia participated in the XI. Summer Paralympic Games in Sydney, Australia. Estonian team representatives were president of Estonian Paralympic Committee Toomas Vilosius, Estonian Minister of Social Affairs Eiki Nestor, secretary member Are Eller and coaches Õnne Pollisinski and Rein Põldme.
Ecuador made its Paralympic Games début at the 1976 Summer Paralympics in Toronto, with a small delegation of three competitors in track and field and swimming. The country has participated in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, except 1980 and 1988, but has never entered the Winter Paralympics. Ecuador's delegations have always been small.
Norma Koplick is an Australian Paralympic athlete with an intellectual disability. She won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Games in the women's javelin throw F20 event.
Anton James Flavel, OAM is an Australian athlete with an intellectual disability. He was born in the Western Australian town of Narrogin. In his disability class he held a world record for the javelin and an Australian record in the shot put and high jump.
Marge Kõrkjas is an Estonian Paralympic swimmer with a vision impairment, who has won seven medals at four Paralympics.
Annely Ojastu is an Estonian Paralympic athlete. At the 1992 Barcelona Games, she won a silver medal in the Women's 100 m TS4 event. At the 1996 Atlanta Games, she won a gold medal in the Women's 100 m T42–46 event and two silver medals in the Women's 200 m T42–46 and Women's Long Jump F42–46 events.
Todd Hodgetts, is an Australian athlete on the autism spectrum who won a gold medal at the 2012 London Paralympics and a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, and also competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Stephanie Schweitzer is an Australian athletics competitor. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in athletics but did not medal.
Macau sent a delegation to participate in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom, from 29 August to 9 September 2012. This was the seventh appearance at a Summer Paralympic Games for the territory since its debut at the 1988 Summer Paralympics. A high jumper and a wheelchair fencer were chosen to represent Macau in London after the nation qualified one athlete by merit and the other by invitation. Wheelchair fencer In I Lao was nominated to be the territory's flag bearer for the opening ceremony. At the Paralympics, Lao came ninth in the group rounds of both the women's individual foil A and the women's individual épée A tournaments while high jumper Hio Sam Tong also finished in ninth in the men's long jump F20 event.
Ardo Arusaar is an Estonian Greco-Roman wrestler. He competed in the Greco-Roman 96 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics; after defeating Erwin Caraballo in the qualifications, he was eliminated by Tsimafei Dzeinichenka in the 1/8 finals. At the 2016 Olympics, he competed in the Greco-Roman 98 kg event. He lost to Islam Magomedov in the last 16.
Karolina Kucharczyk is a Polish Paralympic athlete who began in her sport at age twelve.
Ingrid Puusta is an Estonian Olympic windsurfer, who specializes in the Neil Pryde RS:X class. She represented Estonia at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics, and trains at Noblessner Yacht Club in Tallinn under her personal coach Matthew Rickard. As of March 2017, Puusta is ranked no. 10 in the world for the RS:X class by the World Sailing.
Sabrina Fortune is a British Paralympic track and field athlete from Wales competing in category F20 throwing events. Fortune won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the shot put and a gold medal at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships, also in shot put.
Emilija Manninen is an Estonian female hurdler. She has represented Estonia at the Deaflympics in 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009 and 2013.
Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics were held in the National Stadium in Tokyo. There was 167 medal events: 93 for men, 73 for women and one mixed event. It was the largest contest of the Games programme regarding athlete numbers and medal events to be scheduled.
Ecuador competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021.
Poleth Isamar Méndes Sánchez, also simply known as Poleth Méndes, is an Ecuadorian Paralympic athlete. She along with her younger sister Anaís Méndez claimed the first medals for Ecuador in the history of the Paralympics. Both have the unique distinction of being the only siblings combination to be the first two Paralympic medalists for a country.
Anaís Méndez is an Ecuadorian Paralympic athlete. She along with her elder sister Poleth Isamar Mendes Sanchez claimed the first medals for Ecuador in the history of the Paralympics. Both have the unique distinction of being the only siblings combination to be the first two Paralympic medalists for a country.
Efstratios Nikolaidis is a Greek Paralympic athlete who specializes in shot put. He represented Greece at the Paralympic Games.
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