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Action shot of Australian track athlete Lisa Llorens during her silver medal winning run in the 100 m T20 at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Australian track athletes Katrina Webb (left) and Alison Quinn (right) celebrate with their Australian fans in the crowd over their medal wins in the 100 m T38 at the 2000 Sydney Paralympic Games, Day 07 ...
The Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games were marred by a scandal which saw a Intelectual Disability athletes removed from the next two Summer Paralympics. [ 56 ] [ 57 ] Fernando Vicente Martin, former head of the Spanish Federation for Mentally Handicapped Sports, allowed neurotypical athletes to compete at the Games in order to win the biggest ...
Hyginus Anugo, 22, of Nigeria, a 4 × 400 metres relay reserve, was killed after being struck by a car while crossing a street in Sydney eight days before the Games opened. [33] He did not have Olympic accreditation and was not staying at the Olympic athletes' village.
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[2] [5] He was awarded silver medals in the men's 800m 1C and men's 1500m 1C events, before winning gold in the 1C men’s marathon [6] He also competed in the marathon at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, but finished outside the medal positions. [2] Brewer died in February 2022 of a cardiac arrest at his home, at the age of 71. [3]
Two East Timor athletes took part in the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, but they competed officially as Individual Paralympic Athletes, rather than as representatives of an NPC. [ 1 ] There were two "individual Paralympians" from East Timor: Alcino Pereira in the men's 5,000m race (T38 category) in track and field ; and Mateus Lukas in ...
In 2000, she won an Australian Sports Medal. [6] That year, she competed in her home country in the 2000 Sydney Paralympics where she won a gold medal in the F12 shot put and a bronze in the discus throw. [4] At the 2004 Athens Games, she won a bronze medal in the Women's Shot Put F12 event and competed in the Women's Discus F13 – event. [4]
Emi Perry struggled to accept her new identity as a para athlete, but resilience kept her in the sport until she reached Paralympic status. This athlete lost the use of her legs 7 years ago. How ...