Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...

competed at the

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from August 29 to September 9, 2012. Technically, it was Haiti's second participation in the Paralaympics. In 2008, however, the country's sole representative, powerlifter Nephtalie Jean Louis, was a non-starter in her event due to unspecified "problems with her weight". For the London Games, Haiti was represented by three athletes: wheelchair athlete Nephtalie Jean-Louis, this time in the women's javelin and the shot put;

Josué Cajuste Josué Cajuste (born 16 May 1984) is a Paralympic athlete of Haiti. His disability is congenital. He began playing football, but on a 2011 tour of the US he "discovered" shot-put and javelin A javelin is a light spear designed primarily to be ...

(who has "one leg much shorter than the other"), in the men's shot put and javelin; and Gaysli Leon, who "was paralysed in the 2010 earthquake", in road cycling in a

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."Faster, higher, stronger: The top 50 moments from the London 2012 Paralympics"
''The Independent'', 9 September 2012

Athletics

;Men’s Field Events ;Women’s Field Events

Cycling

Road

;Men

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{{NPCin2012SummerParalympics Nations at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

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2012 in Haitian sport

Athletics

Cycling

Road

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