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Heinz Frei (born 28 January 1958) is a
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wheelchair athlete. Frei has had a long career of racing, winning the
London Marathon The London Marathon is an annual marathon held in London, United Kingdom, and is the 2nd largest annual road race in the UK, after the Great North Run in Newcastle. Founded by athletes Chris Brasher and John Disley in 1981, it is typically he ...
wheelchair race three times, and earning five medals at the 2003 European games at the age of 45. He has earned 15 gold medals at the summer and winter
Paralympics 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 impaired ...
and is a current world record holder in the marathon wheelchair race. He competed in athletics at every Summer Paralympic Games from 1984 to 2008, and at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics he competed in cycling, using a
handcycle A handcycle is a type of human-powered land vehicle powered by the arms rather than the legs, as on a bicycle. Most handcycles are tricycle in form, with two coasting rear wheels and one steerable powered front wheel. Despite usually having ...
. At the Winter Paralympics, he competed in cross-country sit-skiing between 1984 and 2006 and in the
biathlon The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not time ...
in 1994. Frei planned to retire from track competition at an event on 28 August 2009, though he will continue competing in road races.


See also

* Athletes with most gold medals in one event at the Paralympic Games


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* 1958 births Living people Swiss male wheelchair racers Swiss male cross-country skiers Paralympic athletes of Switzerland Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Paralympics 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 Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Paralympic cross-country skiers of Switzerland Cross-country skiers at the 1984 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 1988 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 1992 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 1994 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 1998 Winter Paralympics Cross-country skiers at the 2006 Winter Paralympics Paralympic biathletes of Switzerland Biathletes at the 1994 Winter Paralympics Paralympic cyclists of Switzerland Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Switzerland Paralympic silver medalists for Switzerland Paralympic bronze medalists for Switzerland World record holders in Paralympic athletics Place of birth missing (living people) Wheelchair racers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Paralympic wheelchair racers Medalists at the 1984 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 1988 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 1992 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 1998 Winter Paralympics Medalists at the 1984 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Swiss male biathletes Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) Paralympic medalists in cycling Paralympic medalists in cross-country skiing {{Switzerland-crosscountry-skiing-bio-stub