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Zivan Smith
Zivan Smith (born 31 October 1991 in Pretoria, South Africa) is a South African Paralympic athlete. Smith has the use of only one arm, and completes in the T46 class. He attends Tshwane University of Technology in South Africa. At the 2012 Paralympic Games The 2012 Summer Paralympics, branded as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport parasports event held from 29 August to 9 September 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. They were the 14th Summer Paralympic Gam ..., Smith won a gold medal as part of the South African 4 × 100 m relay team in a world record time of 41.78 seconds. References 1991 births Living people Paralympic athletes for South Africa Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for South Africa Athletes from Pretoria South African amputees World record holders in para-athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Tshwane University of Technology alumni P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Summer Paralympics
The 2012 Summer Paralympics, branded as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport parasports event held from 29 August to 9 September 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. They were the 14th Summer Paralympic Games as organised by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). They were the first Summer Paralympics to be hosted by London, and the first hosted solely by Great Britain; the English village of Stoke Mandeville co-hosted the 1984 Games with Long Island, New York after its original host, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, withdrew due to financial issues. In 1948, the village hosted the Stoke Mandeville Games—the first organised sporting event for athletes with disabilities, and a precursor to the modern Paralympic Games—to coincide with the opening of the 1948 Olympics in London. Organisers expected the Games to be the first Paralympics to achieve mass-market appeal, fuelled by continued enthusiasm over Great B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
