David Roos (born 29 May 1982 in Queenstown) 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 South Africa competing mainly in category F46 sprints, long and high jump events. Roos has competed in three Paralympic Games. In the

2000 Summer Paralympics The 2000 Summer Paralympic Games or the XI Summer Paralympics were held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, between 18 and 29 October. The Sydney Paralympics was last time that the Summer Paralympics which were organized by two different ...

he competed in the T46 100 metres and F46 long jump as well as winning a bronze medal in the F46 high jump. Four years later in Athens in

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

he went home without a medal after competing in the T46 200m, F46 long jump and F44/46 high jump. He had better luck in the

2008 Summer Paralympics The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summer Paralympic Games, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao. It was ...

winning a silver in the F46 long jump and competed in the T46 100 and 200 metres and the F44/46 high jump. In 2011 he won a gold medal at the IPC World Championships as part of the South African team for the Men's 4 x 100 metres relay.

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* Paralympic athletes for South Africa Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Paralympic silver medalists for South Africa Paralympic bronze medalists for South Africa Living people 1982 births Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Commonwealth Games silver medallists for South Africa Athletes (track and field) at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) South African male sprinters South African male high jumpers South African male long jumpers Sportspeople from Queenstown, South Africa 20th-century South African people 21st-century South African people Sprinters with limb difference High jumpers with limb difference Long jumpers with limb difference Paralympic sprinters Paralympic high jumpers Paralympic long jumpers Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games {{SouthAfrica-Paralympic-medalist-stub