Liu Fuliang (born 16 November 1985) is a

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 ...

athlete from China competing mainly in T46 classification

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events. Liu represented his country at the

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in London, where he competed in three events, the 100 metre relay and his favoured

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a ...

and

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

. He finished on the podium in all three events, taking the gold medal in both the jump events and was part of the Chinese relay team that took the silver medal. As well as Paralympic success, Liu dominated both the long jump and triple jump events in the T46/47 classification at the

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between the Games in London and

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. He took the gold medal in both the events in the 2013 World Championships in Lyon, and repeated this feat at the 2015 Championship in Doha.

Personal history

Liu was born in

Jiangmen Jiangmen (), alternately romanized in Cantonese as Kongmoon, is a prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province in southern China. As of the 2020 census, its three urban districts, plus Heshan City being conurbated, with 2,657,662 inhabitants a ...

, China in 1985. At the age of eleven he lost his left hand whilst playing with firecrackers. After leaving school he was educated at Jiangmen Sports School.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Liu, Fuliang Paralympic athletes for China Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for China Paralympic silver medalists for China Living people 1985 births Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Chinese male sprinters Chinese male long jumpers Chinese male triple jumpers People from Jiangmen Runners from Guangdong Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)