Dmitrii Dmitrievich Safronov (russian: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Сафронов; born 12 October 1995) is a Russian

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who specializes in the 100 m and 200 m sprint.

Career

Safronov is a four-time

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, having won gold in the 100m and 200m T35 events in

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and in

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. In

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he won a silver and a bronze in the 200m and 100m, respectively. Safronov represented

Russian Paralympic Committee athletes at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Russian athletes competed in the 2020 Summer Paralympics under the flag of the Russian Paralympic Committee (acronym RPC). On 9 December 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from all international sport for a period of four y ...

and won gold medals in the

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and 200 metres T35 events.

References

1995 births Living people People from Dzerzhinsk, Russia Medalists at the World Para Athletics European Championships Medalists at the World Para Athletics Championships Paralympic athletes for Russia Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) Paralympic gold medalists for the Russian Paralympic Committee athletes Russian male sprinters Sportspeople from Nizhny Novgorod Oblast {{Russia-Paralympic-medalist-stub