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Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 31 January 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Paracanoe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | VL3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Bath | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Colin Radmore | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Stuart Wood (born 31 January 1994) is a British paracanoeist. He represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Stuart is a graduate from the University of Bath, where he studied maths, physics and computer science, and he now works in software development in Nottingham. Stuart has been a keen paddler for a number of years and having originally started in the KL3; he has very much found his form in the VL3.
In June 2021 it was announced that Stuart had been selected as part of the paracanoe team for his debut Paralympic Games.
Wood represented Great Britain at the 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in the men's VL3 event and won a bronze medal. He was subsequently named to the Paralympic team for Great Britain. [1]
Wood represented Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in the men's VL3 event and won a bronze medal. [2]
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The United States of America (USA), represented by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place in the summer of 2020, the Games were postponed to July 23 to August 8, 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, with the exception of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, which the U.S. boycotted in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The opening ceremony flag-bearers for the United States were baseball player Eddy Alvarez and basketball player Sue Bird. Javelin thrower Kara Winger was the flag-bearer for the closing ceremony. For the third consecutive time in the Summer Olympics, the United States was represented by more female than male athletes (285 men and 330 women).
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