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2017 World Para Athletics Championships – Women's Long Jump
The women's long jump at the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships was held at the Olympic Stadium in London from 14–23 July. Medalists Events listed in pink were contested but no medals were awarded. Detailed results T20 T37 T38 T42 T44 T47 See also *List of IPC world records in athletics References {{DEFAULTSORT:2017 IPC Athletics World Championships - Women's long jump long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a ... 2017 in women's athletics Long jump at the World Para Athletics Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a group are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". This event has a history in the ancient Olympic Games and has been a modern Olympic event for men since the first Olympics in 1896 and for women since 1948. Rules At the elite level, competitors run down a runway (usually coated with the same rubberized surface as running tracks, crumb rubber or vulcanized rubber, known generally as an all-weather track) and jump as far as they can from a wooden or synthetic board, 20 centimetres or 8 inches wide, that is built flush with the runway, into a pit filled with soft damp sand. If the competitor starts the leap with any part of the foot past the foul line, the jump is declared a foul and no distance is recorded. A layer of plasticine is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wen Xiaoyan
Wen Xiaoyan (born 12 October 1997) is a Chinese Paralympic athlete. She represented China at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and she won two gold medals and one silver medal. She also won three gold medals at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan. Career Wen won the gold medal in the women's long jump T37 event and the silver medal in the women's 400 metres T37 event. In the women's 4 × 100 metres relay T35-T38 event she won the gold medal together with Jiang Fenfen, Chen Junfei and Li Yingli. At the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships held in London, United Kingdom, Wen won the gold medal in the women's long jump T37 event. Two years later at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates she won three gold medals and one silver medal. She won the gold medal in the women's 100 metres T37, women's 200 metres T37 and women's long jump T37 events. She also won the silver medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay event. Wen won the gol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlene Van Gansewinkel
Marlene van Gansewinkel (born 11 March 1995) is a Dutch Paralympic athlete. In 2021, she won the gold medal in both the women's 100 metres T64 and 200 metres T64 events at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan. She also won the bronze medal in the women's long jump T64 event. In 2016, she won the bronze medal in the women's long jump T44 event at the Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has also won medals in the long jump and in sprinting events at the World Para Athletics Championships and the World Para Athletics European Championships. Early life Van Gansewinkel was born without her lower left leg and lower left arm. Career Early in her career, Van Gansewinkel competed as a T44-classified athlete. In 2014, she competed in the women's 100 metres T44, 200 metres T44 and 400 metres T44 events at the IPC Athletics European Championships held in Swansea, Wales. She missed out on winning a medal as she finished in 4th place in all three events. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stef Reid
Stefanie McLeod Reid (born 26 October 1984) is a track and field paralympian who competes for Great Britain, competing mainly in category T44 long jump and sprint events. A multiple medal winner at European and world level, she won a bronze medal in the 200m at the 2008 Summer Paralympics and silver in the long jump at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Reid was also a semi-finalist on ''Celebrity MasterChef'' in 2018 and was a quarter-finalist on the fourteenth series of ''Dancing on Ice''. Personal history Reid was born in New Zealand to British parents; her father is Scottish and her mother is English. The family moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada when she was aged 4. Reid lost her right foot in a boating accident, aged 16. Her life was saved by a surgeon in Toronto who amputated her right leg below the knee. Reid is married to Canadian wheelchair racer Brent Lakatos, and they now live in England where they both train at Loughborough University. Reid is a Christian. Athletics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
T44 (classification)
T44 is a disability sport classification for disability athletics, applying to "Single below knee amputation or an athlete who can walk with moderately reduced function in one or both legs." It includes ISOD A4 and A9 classes. Definition This classification is for disability athletics. This classification is one of several classifications for athletes with ambulant related disabilities. Similar classifications are T40, T42, T43, T44, T45 and T46. Jane Buckley, writing for the Sporting Wheelies, describes the athletes in this classification as: "Single below knee amputation or an athlete who can walk with moderately reduced function in one or both legs." The Australian Paralympic Committee defines this classification as being for athletes who have the "Single leg below knee amputation. Combined lower plus upper limb amputations. Ambulant with moderately reduced function in one or both lower limbs." The International Paralympic Committee defined this class in 2011 as: "T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scout Bassett
Scout Bassett (born Zhu Fuzhi; August 18, 1988) is an American Paralympic track and field athlete. Bassett spent her first seven years of life in a government-run orphanage in Nanjing, China after she was found abandoned on the side of a street following the tragic loss of her right leg in a chemical fire as a newborn baby. While growing up, she made a makeshift prosthetic leg using leather belts and masking tape and began to walk, aged six, but never went outside of the orphanage in which she was being raised. Bassett was adopted in 1995 by an American couple from Michigan. Early life After being adopted just shy of her eighth birthday, Bassett grew up in Harbor Springs, Michigan. On growing up in Harbor Springs, Bassett recalls "They were so unaccepting of me," she says. "The girls were so noninclusive and mean, and being the only Asian in an all-white school was not fun." Scout buried herself in books, plowing through as many political biographies as her brain could dig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaede Maegawa
("maple") may refer to: *Kaede (protein), a photoactivated fluorescent protein *, several ships People *, Japanese dancer, fashion model and actress *, murder victim of Kaoru Kobayashi *, Japanese voice actress *, Japanese musician, member of Morning Musume *, Japanese basketball player *, Japanese women's footballer *, Japanese professional footballer *, Japanese athlete Fictional characters *Kaede, a Patriot from Marie Lu's ''Legend'' Trilogy *Lady Kaede, the villain from Akira Kurosawa's ''Ran'' *Kaede, a Blade Brandier from the '' .hack//G.U. series'' * Kaede (InuYasha), supporting character of ''InuYasha'' and '' InuYasha: The Final Act'' in which she is the elderly younger sister to the deceased Priestess Kikyo, who is eventually resurrected * Kaede (Last Blade), the main character in ''The Last Blade'' series of games *Kaede Sakura, a character from the Japanese novel series ''Kämpfer'' *Kaede, the female protagonist of '' Elfen Lied'', more commonly known as Lucy *K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martina Caironi
Martina Caironi (born 13 September 1989) is an Italian Paralympic athlete. She competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and 2016 Summer Paralympics. She won a gold medal in the 100 m sprint in 2012 and a silver in the long jump in 2016. She qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics. Biography As a result of a motorcycle accident in 2007, Caironi had to undergo high- femoral amputation on her left leg. Disqualification On 17 October 2019, she was disqualified for having been found positive for a steroid contained in a healing ointment, prescribed by her doctor, to treat a severe inflammation of the amputated leg. However, the ''Italian national anti-doping court'', recognizing the good faith of the athlete, reduced the disqualification by one year, therefore the disqualification expired on 9 March 2020. World records * 100 m – T42: 15.87 (London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
T42 (classification)
T42 is a disabled sport, disability sport classification for Paralympic athletics, disability athletics (track and jump events only), applying to athletes with single above the knee amputations or a disability that is comparable. This class includes Amputee sports classification, ISOD classified A2 and A9 competitors. Definition This classification is for Paralympic athletics, disability athletics competing in track and jump events. This classification is one of several classifications for athletes with ambulant related disabilities. Similar classifications are T43 (classification), T43, T44 (classification), T44, T45 (classification), T45 and T46 (classification), T46. The International Paralympic Committee defined this class in 2011 as: "Single above knee amputees and athletes with other impairments that are comparable to a single above knee amputation. This includes athletes with loss of muscle power in the lower limbs consistent with Class F57 or F58 class." The International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Trener-Wierciak
Anna Trener-Wierciak (born 31 March 1991) is a Polish Paralympic athlete with multiple sclerosis. She represented Poland at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and she won the bronze medal in the women's long jump T38 event. She also competed in the women's 100 metres T38 where she did not qualify to compete in the final. Career At the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships held in London, United Kingdom, she won the bronze medal in the women's long jump T38 event. In 2017, at the World Para Athletics Grand Prix in Tunis, Tunisia, she won the gold medal in the women's women’s long jump T12/20/37/38 event and in the women's 100 metres T36/37/38 event. At the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships The 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was a track and field competition for athletes with a disability open to International Paralympic Committee (IPC) affiliated countries within Europe, plus Azerbaijan and Israel. It was held in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erin Cleaver
Erin Cleaver (born 6 February 2000) is an Australian Paralympic athlete with cerebral palsy. She represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics in athletics. Personal Cleaver was born on 6 February 2000 in Tamworth, New South Wales. She was born with cerebral palsy right-sided hemiplegia, which affects the movement in her right arm and leg. Her family moved to Newcastle, New South Wales. She attended Hunter Sports High School. Athletics Cleaver took up athletics while at primary school in Barraba, New South Wales. In 2010, she took up athletics with a disability and was classified as a T38 athlete. At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Cleaver competed in three events. She finished fifth in women's 100 metres T38, 4th in the women's long jump T38, and competed in the women's 4 x 100 metre relay (T35-38) where her team was disqualified for a baton change outside the takeover zone. In 2015, she was awarded the Outstanding Individual Performance by an Ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Breen
Olivia "Livvy" Breen (born 26 July 1996) is a Welsh Paralympian athlete, who competes for Wales and Great Britain mainly in T38 sprint and F38 long jump events. She qualified for the 2012 Summer Paralympics and was selected for the T38 100m and 200m sprint and was also part of the T35-38 women's relay team. She has also represented Wales at the 2014, 2018 and 2022 Commonwealth Games winning gold in the F38 Long Jump in 2018 and gold in the T37/38 100m in 2022 . Early life Breen was born in England to a Welsh mother and Irish father. Breen, who has cerebral palsy, began racing while still at primary school. Career Breen was given her T38 classification in January 2012, allowing her to be brought into contention for Paralympic selection. In June 2012 she competed in the IPC Athletics European Championships in Stadskanaal in the Netherlands, winning the bronze in both the 100m and 200m sprints. She recorded a personal best in the 100m at the European championships, and followed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
