Evgenii Torsunov (Russian: Евгений Торсунов, born 30 August 1990) is a Russian

para-athlete Para-athletics is the sport of athletics practised by people with a disability as a parasport. The athletics events within the parasport are mostly the same as those available to able-bodied people, with two major exceptions in wheelchair rac ...

Career

He 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 a gold medal in the long jump T36 event. He represented Neutral Paralympic Athletes at the

2024 World Para Athletics Championships The 2024 World Para Athletics Championships is an upcoming Paralympic track and field meet organized by the World Para Athletics subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee. It will be the 11th edition of the event and it is scheduled ...

and won a gold medal in the long jump T36 event.

References

1990 births Living people Paralympic athletes for Russia Medalists at the World Para Athletics European Championships Medalists at the World Para Athletics Championships World Para Athletics Championships winners Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) Sportspeople from Perm, Russia Paralympic gold medalists for the Russian Paralympic Committee athletes Russian male sprinters Russian male long jumpers 21st-century Russian people {{Russia-Paralympic-medalist-stub