Vasyl Lishchynskyi
Vasyl Lischynskyi (18 March 1964 – 29 November 2015)[1] was a Paralympian athlete from Ukraine competing mainly in category F11/12 throwing events.[2]
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nationality | Ukrainian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 18 March 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 29 November 2015 51) | (aged||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country | Ukraine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Paralympic athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | F11/12 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Throwing events | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Biography
Vasyl competed in four Paralympics, always competing in the shot and discus. His first games were in 1996 where he won gold in the shot and silver in the discus. 2000 and 2004 proved barren games but in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China he won a gold medal in the F11/12 discus and a bronze in the F11/12 shot put.
Notes
- Умер спортсмен, выигравший для Украины первое "золото" Паралимпиады
- "Vasyl Lishchynskyi". IPC Athletics. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.