Helena Kannus (née Silm; married name Thalson; born 16 March 1963) is an
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
n para athletics competitor.
She was born in
Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...
. In 1988 she graduated from the special school Tartu Emajõgi School.
She started her sporting exercising in 1980. Until 1988 he exercised swimming under the guidance of
Rein Põldme. Since 1992 she started to exercise athletics. She is competed at paralympic games from 1992 to 2004.
At the
1996 Summer Paralympics
The 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, were held from August 16 to 25. It was the first Paralympic Games, Paralympics to get mass media sponsorship, and had a budget of USD $81 million.
It was the first Paralympic Games ...
in Atlanta, she won a bronze medal in the Women's pentathlon P10-12 (see
Athletics at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
Athletics at the 1996 Summer Paralympics consisted of 210 events, 155 for men and 55 for women.
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In 1998 she won athletics championships for athletes with bad eyesight; she won at two disciplines: pentathlon and long jump. 1992–2004 she was a member of Estonian national para athletics team.
References
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Living people
1963 births
Paralympic athletes for Estonia
Athletes from Tallinn
Estonian female long jumpers
Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic bronze medalists for Estonia
Visually impaired long jumpers
Estonian disabled sportspeople