Dan Greaves (discus thrower)

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Dan Greaves

Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Great Britain
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Discus throw F44/46
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney Discus throw F44/46
Silver medal – second place 2012 London Discus throw F44
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Beijing Discus throw F44
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Discus throw F44
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo Discus throw F64
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 2002 Lille Discus throw F44
Gold medal – first place 2006 Assen Discus throw F44
Gold medal – first place 2011 Christchurch Discus throw F44
Silver medal – second place 2013 Lyon Discus throw F44
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Paris Discus throw F64
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2003 Assen
Gold medal – first place 2005 Espoo
Gold medal – first place 2014 Swansea Discus throw F44
Gold medal – first place 2016 Grosseto Discus throw F44-46
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Glasgow Discus throw F42/44

Daniel Greaves (born 4 October 1982) is a British athlete who specialises in the discus throw.

Career

Greaves was born in Anstey, Leicestershire in 1982.[1]

Greaves won the gold medal in the F44/46 category discus throw at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, establishing a new world record with a throw of 55.12m.[2] He had previously won silver at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney.[3]

Despite being born with a deformity of the feet, Greaves was selected to join the British able-bodied team in a competition against the United States in 2001.[3]

Greaves competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing,[4] winning a bronze medal in the F44 discus throw.

He broke the world record again at the pre-IPC World Athletics Championships in New Zealand in January 2011, throwing 59.98m on his fourth throw.[5][6]

He won Bronze at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo. In doing so he became the first British track and field athlete to win medals at six consecutive Paralympic Games.

References

  1. ^ "British team for Athens 2004 Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine", paralympics.org.uk, retrieved 2011-03-05
  2. ^ "Greaves takes discus crown", BBC, 20 September 2004
  3. ^ a b "Unique double for Daniel Greaves", uksport.gov.uk, 17 August 2008
  4. ^ "ParalympicsGB receive athletics nominations for the Beijing 2008 Paralympics" Archived June 9, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, British Paralympics Association, June 2008
  5. ^ "'Discus' Dan is a World Record Man", Anstey Clarion, February 2011, p. 1
  6. ^ "IPC WORLDS: Greaves justifies his pre-event billing to take discus gold in New Zealand Archived 2011-01-28 at the Wayback Machine", morethangames.co.uk, 26 January 2011, retrieved 2011-03-05


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