Markku Niinimäki 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 ...

athlete An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track ...

from

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

competing mainly in category F54

shot put The shot put is a track-and-field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical Ball (sports), ball—the ''shot''—as far as possible. For men, the sport has been a part of the Olympic Games, modern Olympics since their 1896 Summer Olym ...

and javelin events.https://www.paralympic.org/markku-niinimaki Markku has competed in two Paralympic Games. In

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

he competed in the javelin and won a bronze medal in the F54 shot put. In

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

he won a silver in the combined F53/54 shot put and a gold in the F53/54 javelin.

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* Paralympic athletes for Finland Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Finland Paralympic silver medalists for Finland Paralympic bronze medalists for Finland Living people Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) Finnish male javelin throwers Finnish male shot putters {{Finland-Paralympic-medalist-stub