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View from above of wheelchair racing competition at the 2000 Summer Paralympics. The distances involved in wheelchair racing include sprint distances of 100 m (109.4 yards), 200 m (218.7 yards) and 400 m (437.4 yards), middle distances of 800 m (874.9 yards) and 1500 m (1640.4 yards), long distances of 5000 m (3.1 miles) and 10,000 m (6.2 miles) and relay races of 4 × 100 m (109.4 yards) and ...
Kurt Harry Fearnley, AO PLY [1] [2] (born 23 March 1981) is an Australian wheelchair racer, who has won gold medals at the Paralympic Games and crawled the Kokoda Track without a wheelchair. He has a congenital disorder called sacral agenesis which prevented fetal development of certain parts of his lower spine and all of his sacrum .
100 m 18.06 gold medal at the 2012 Paralympic Games Cockroft winning the 100 m T34 qualifying heat at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Hannah Lucy Cockroft [3] (born 30 July 1992) is a British wheelchair racer specialising in sprint distances in the T34 classification and TV presenter.
From 1993 to 2001, Sauvage won every IAAF wheelchair demonstration event at IAAF World Athletics Championships. [22] In that same period, she also won the demonstration events for wheelchair racing in the 800 metre race at the Olympic games. [23] The 800 metre event does not require that athletes stay in their lanes after the first turn.
Weir was born in Wallington, part of the London Borough of Sutton. [2] He cannot use his legs due to a congenital spinal cord transection. [1] As a child he was a talented wheelchair athlete, representing Sutton in wheelchair athletics at the London Youth Games, and won the junior event at the London marathon (the mini wheelchair race) seven times.
Marcel Eric Hug (German: [maʁˈsɛl ˈhuːɡ]; born 16 January 1986) is a Paralympic 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.
Daniel Romanchuk (born August 3, 1998) is an American Paralympic athlete who competes primarily in wheelchair racing events. He won the Chicago Marathon on October 7, 2018. . Less than a month later, he made history as the first American to win the men's wheelchair race at the New York City Marathon, becoming the youngest winner in the event's histor
Sammi is the fastest ever female British wheelchair racer regardless of classification over 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m. Samantha Kinghorn at the 2016 Summer Paralympic Games, T53 100 metres sprint, where she finished fifth. Kinghorn's first race was the 2012 London Mini Marathon, where she came second. [4]