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