by: martí soler gerard pérez biel soriano. oscar pistorius was born in pretoria, 22 nd november....
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By:Martí Soler
Gerard PérezBiel Soriano
Oscar Pistorius was born in Pretoria, 22nd
November. He is a paralympic runner because
his legs were amputated below the knee when
he was 11 months old. He began in sports
world practising ruby, tennis and water polo
but he suffered an important injury and he was
introduced to running in January 2004. He was
too good at paralympics; he won six gold
medals, one silver medal and a bronze medal
in three different Paralympic Games. He was
the first paralympic athlete who ran an
Olympic Race in the world.
Enhamed Enhamed was born in Gran Canaria
but his parents live in Sahara. When he was
nine years old, he became blind because he
suffered from a glaucoma. This illness made his
life impossible, but one day he started swimming
and he discovered a new world that allowed him
to forget his illness.
He has won ten bronze medals, twelve silver medals and fifteen gold medals and
he has four records; European and world records.
In his free time he works to help other people with problems.
Teresa Perales was born in Saragossa, on the 29th December 1975. She is a
paralympic athlete. She is one of the people that has won more medals in
Paralympic Games. She became paraplegic when she was nineteen years old.
Then, she didn’t know how to swim. But after she became paraplegic, she learnt to
swim and one year later, she started competing.
She has won six gold medals, six silver medals and ten bronze medals in four
different Paralympic Games. She has won twenty-three more medals in European
championships and in different championships.
Chris Waddell was born in 1968 in America. He was a promise as a skier but in 1988,
he suffered an accident and he became paralytic, but it wasn’t a problem for him
because he won thirteen medals in the Paralympic games, In 2009 he climbed to the
top of the Kilimanjaro without help and it occurred the same day that he lost his legs.
On the 5th May 2010 he was named the 2010
Shining Star of Perseverance by the Will Return
Council of Assurant Employee Benefits.
Im Dong-Hyun was born on 12th May 1986 in South Korea. He
is a paralympic athlete who is blind because he had a severe
myopia, that can be considered blindness. He hold a record in
archery and he won two gold medals and one bronze medal in
the Olympic games, and he also won four gold medals and two
silver medals in world championships.
She was born in Terrassa, on the 16th November,1992. She was born without one
hand and the forearm. She started training in Club Natació Terrassa. Her first
championship was the Paralympics of Beijing, where she won a silver medal. She
also participated in the European Swimming Championship in Reykjavik, where she
won a bronze medal. When she was 17 years old, she took part in the 2010 Adapted
Swimming World Championship in the Netherlands where she won two silver medals
and three bronze medals. She won a gold medal in 2011 European Championships
too. In the Paralympic Games of London in 2012 she won a silver medal and a
bronze medal