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| Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 September 1994 Dresden, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Paracanoe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | KL3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Tom Kierey (born 4 September 1994) is a German paracanoeist. He silver medalled at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the Men's KL3. [1]
The International Paralympic Committee is an international non-profit organisation and the global governing body for the Paralympic Movement.
The 2016 Summer Paralympics, the 15th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016. The Games marked the first time a Latin American and South American city hosted the event, the second Southern Hemisphere city and nation, the first one being the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, and also the first time a Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) country hosted the event. These Games saw the introduction of two new sports to the Paralympic program: canoeing and the paratriathlon.
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The Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports, commonly known as the Norwegian Sports Confederation is the umbrella organization for sport in Norway. It is the largest volunteering organization in Norway, with more than 2 million members and 12,000 sports clubs in 19 region confederations and 54 national federations. The current president is Zaineb Al-Samarai.
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Events in the year 1992 in Germany.
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