Monaam Elabed is a
Tunisian 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 ...
track and field
Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...
athlete.
He was the first Tunisian to participate in a
Paralympic Games
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 ...
, when in 1988, he won two bronze medals in 400m C6 and 3000m cross country C6 event. He also competed in the 100 and 200m events.
See also
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Tunisia at the Paralympics
Tunisia made its Paralympic Games debut at the 1988 Summer Paralympics in Seoul. It was represented by a single athlete, Monaam Elabed, who won two bronze medals in athletics. The country has competed in every subsequent edition of the Summer Pa ...
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Athletics at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
Athletics at the 1988 Summer Paralympics consisted of 344 events. Because of ties for third place in the men's 800 metre A1–3/A9/L2 and precision throw C1 events, a total of 346 bronze medals were awarded. Because of a tie for first place in t ...
References
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Paralympic athletes for Tunisia
Living people
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic bronze medalists for Tunisia
Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
Tunisian male middle-distance runners
Year of birth missing (living people)
Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
20th-century Tunisian people