Josué Cajuste (born 16 May 1984) is a

Paralympic 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 ...

athlete of

Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...

. His disability is

congenital A birth defect is an abnormal condition that is present at childbirth, birth, regardless of its cause. Birth defects may result in disability, disabilities that may be physical disability, physical, intellectual disability, intellectual, or dev ...

. 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 thrown, historically as a ranged weapon. Today, the javelin is predominantly used for sporting purposes such as the javelin throw. The javelin is nearly always thrown by hand, unlike the sling ...

. He stated that competing for Haiti at the 2012 Summer Paralympics was going to be "one of the proudest moments of my life." The earthquake in Haiti impacted his life, and so to train for the London Paralympics he had to train "amongst the rubble; wherever we can."

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Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics 1984 births Paralympic athletes for Haiti Living people Haitian shot putters {{Haiti-athletics-bio-stub