Medal record | ||
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Paralympic athletics | ||
Representing Canada | ||
Paralympic Games | ||
1996 Atlanta | 1500 metres - T12 | |
2000 Sydney | 800 metres - T13 | |
2004 Athens | 800 metres - T13 |
Stuart McGregor is a Paralympian athlete from Canada competing mainly in category T13 400m to 1500m events.
McGregor has competed at three Paralympics, always in the 400 metres and one other event. He has never won a medal in the 400m but has always medalled in the other event, firstly the T12 1500m in 1996 winning a silver, then in 2000 a bronze in the 800m a result that he repaested in 2004. [1]
Richard Andrew Colman is an Australian Paralympic athlete, competing mainly in category T53 sprint events. He was born with spina bifida. He represented Australia at the four Paralympics - 2004 to 2016.
Thomas Geierspichler is a Paralympic wheelchair racer from Austria. He competes in the T52 classification.
Panama made its Paralympic Games début at the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, with a delegation of two competitors in athletics. It has participated in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, but never in the Winter Paralympics. Panamanian delegations have always been small, never consisting in more than two competitors.
Julien Casoli is a Paralympian athlete, from Vesoul, France competing mainly in category T54 sprint events.
Rima Akberdinovna Batalova is a Russian politician. She was formerly a Paralympian athlete competing mainly in category T12 middle-distance events.
Marcel Eric Hug is a Paralympian athlete from Switzerland competing in category T54 wheelchair racing events. Hug, nicknamed 'The Silver Bullet', has competed in four Summer Paralympic Games for Switzerland, winning two bronze medals in his first Games in Athens in 2004. In 2010 he set four world records in four days, and at the 2011 World Championships he won a gold in the 10,000 metres and four silver medals, losing the gold in three events to long term rival David Weir. This rivalry continued into the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where Hug won two silvers, in the 800m and the marathon. In the 2013 World Championships Hug dominated the field, winning five golds and a silver. During the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, Hug was one of the most consistent competitors in the T54 class, winning two golds, in the 800 m and marathon, and two silvers medals, in the 1500m and 5000m.
Richard Reelie is a paralympic athlete from Canada competing mainly in category T52 wheelchair racing events.
Philippe Couprie is a paralympic track and field athlete from France competing mainly in category T54 wheelchair racing events.
Alvise De Vidi is a former paralympic athlete from Italy competing mainly in category T51 wheelchair racing events.
Leticia Torres is a paralympic athlete from Mexico competing mainly in category T52 sprint events.
Tim Johansson is a Paralympic athlete from Sweden competing mainly in category T51 wheel chair racing events.
Pedro Delgado is a paralympic athlete from Spain competing mainly in category T11 400m to 1500m events.
Bart Dodson is an American paralympic athlete. He is from the United States competing mainly in category T51 wheelchair racing events.
José Antonio Sánchez is a paralympic athlete from Spain competing mainly in category T11 800m events.
Jade Jones-Hall, known previously as Jade Jones, is an English wheelchair racer, competing in T54 events, and a paratriathlete competing in handbike-to-wheelchair classifications. Jones competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the 400m, 800m and 1500m. In 2018, she won the gold medal in Paratriathlon at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Andrzej Wróbel is a paralympic athlete from Poland competing mainly in category T37 distance events.
Giuseppe Forni is a paralympic athlete from Switzerland competing mainly in category T51 racing events.
Per Vesterlund is a paralympic athlete from Sweden competing mainly in category T52 track events.
Uganda sent a delegation to compete at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016. This was the eighth appearance of the country in the Summer Paralympic Games after it debuted forty-four years prior at the 1972 Heidelberg Paralympics. Athletics track runner David Emong was the sole athlete representing Uganda in Rio de Janeiro. He took part in the men's 400 metres T45–47 competition on 8 September and did not qualify for the finals because he was fifteenth overall. Emong participated in the men's 1500 metres T45–46 event later that day and he took Uganda's first medal in Paralympic competition by coming second in the final.
The United States Virgin Islands (USVI) sent a delegation to compete at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7–18 September 2016. This was the Virgin Islands' second time competing at a Summer Paralympic Games. They were represented by one athlete, Ivan Espinosa, who contested one event, the men's 1500 meters T37. In that event, he came in 8th place.