André Luiz Oliveira is a

Paralympian The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Kore ...

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from

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https://www.paralympic.org/andre-oliveira competing mainly in category F44 long jump and T44 sprint events. Andre Luiz competed at the

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. He won a silver medal in theT42-46 4 × 100 m as part of the Brazilian team, after failing to medal in either the T44 100m or F42/44 long jump.

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profile on paralympic.org

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