Dan Greaves (discus thrower)
Daniel Greaves (born 4 October 1982) is a British athlete who specialises in the discus throw.
Career
[edit]Greaves was born in Anstey, Leicestershire in 1982.[1]
Greaves won the gold medal in the F44/46 category discus throw at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, establishing a new world record with a throw of 55.12m.[2] He had previously won silver at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney.[3]
Despite being born with a deformity of the feet, Greaves was selected to join the British able-bodied team in a competition against the United States in 2001.[3]
Greaves competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing,[4] winning a bronze medal in the F44 discus throw.
He broke the world record again at the pre-IPC World Athletics Championships in New Zealand in January 2011, throwing 59.98m on his fourth throw.[5][6]
He won Bronze at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo. In doing so he became the first British track and field athlete to win medals at six consecutive Paralympic Games.
References
[edit]- ^ "British team for Athens 2004 Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine", paralympics.org.uk, retrieved 2011-03-05
- ^ "Greaves takes discus crown", BBC, 20 September 2004
- ^ a b "Unique double for Daniel Greaves", uksport.gov.uk, 17 August 2008
- ^ "ParalympicsGB receive athletics nominations for the Beijing 2008 Paralympics" Archived June 9, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, British Paralympics Association, June 2008
- ^ "'Discus' Dan is a World Record Man", Anstey Clarion, February 2011, p. 1
- ^ "IPC WORLDS: Greaves justifies his pre-event billing to take discus gold in New Zealand Archived 2011-01-28 at the Wayback Machine", morethangames.co.uk, 26 January 2011, retrieved 2011-03-05
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