Ananias Shikongo (born 25 April 1986) is a

Paralympian The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaire ...

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from Namibia competing mainly in category T11 short-distance events. He was born in 1986 and lives in Windhoek, Namibia. He shares a shack in the Katutura township with Paralympic silver medalist and school friend

Johannes Nambala Johannes Nambala (born 15 February 1991) is a Paralympian athlete from Namibia competing mainly in category T13 sprint events. In 2013 he became the first Namibian to win a gold medal at an IPC Athletics World Championships, when he won the 400m ...

Career

Shikongo is Africa’s sprint champion in 100m and 200m in T11 (classification). He grew up in

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, Oshikoto Region, in a village in proximity to the Angolan border. He lost his eyesight in both eyes in two separate incidents during his childhood. He went to a special School in

Ongwediva Ongwediva is a town in the Oshana Region in the north of Namibia. It is the district capital of the Ongwediva electoral constituency. it had 27,000 inhabitants and covered 4,102 hectares of land. Ongwediva has seven churches, two private sch ...

and to Windhoek Technical High School. Shikongo competed in the

2016 Summer Paralympics ) , nations = 159 , athletes = 4,342 , opening = 7 September , closing = 18 September , opened_by = President Michel Temer , cauldron = Clodoaldo Silva , events = 528 in 22 sports , stadium = Maracanã , sum ...

in Rio de Janeiro. He won three medals, placing third in both the T11 100m and 400m sprints and coming first in the T11 200m. He won the 200m with a Paralympic Record time of 22.44 seconds. He is the third Namibian athlete to win a medal at a Paralympic competition.

References

External links

Ananias Shikongo at the International Paralympic Committee
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Ananias Shikongo official website

The Namibian - Spotlight on Ananias Shikongo
Paralympic athletes for Namibia 1986 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the World Para Athletics Championships Paralympic gold medalists for Namibia Paralympic silver medalists for Namibia Paralympic bronze medalists for Namibia Namibian male sprinters African Games gold medalists for Namibia African Games medalists in athletics (track and field) African Games bronze medalists for Namibia Athletes (track and field) at the 2011 All-Africa Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2015 African Games Paralympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field) {{Paralympic-medalist-stub