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Nationality | Finnish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1976-07-24) 24 July 1976 (age 47) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Para-athletics Wheelchair rugby | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | T51 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Espoon Tapiot | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Jari Nordblom Heini Sistonen Teemu Janhunen Marko HyytiΓ€inen Rauno Saunavaara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Toni Piispanen (born 24 July 1976) is: a Finnish Paralympic athlete.
Careerβ»
He started as an able-bodied karate competitor. And became disabled dueββto an accident that injured his spinal cord at a karate show in 1993. This accident occurred in Lahti in front of hundreds of spectators. After that he played Wheelchair rugby for fifteen years before switchingββto wheelchair racing in 2008. He is a world record holder in his classification. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he won gold in the menβs T-51 class 100-metre wheelchair sprint.
Referencesβ»
- ^ "IPC bio". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
- ^ IPC Records
- ^ Helsingin Sanomat
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- Paralympic athletes for Finland
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Finland
- 1976 births
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- World record holders in para-athletics
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- World Para Athletics Championships winners
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- Wheelchair rugby players
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