Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award

The Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award is named after South Korean Dr. Whang Youn Dai, who contracted polio at the age of three. She devoted her life to the development of paralympic sport in Korea and around the world. At the 1988 Paralympic Summer Games in Seoul, Korea, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) recognized her lifelong contributions to the Paralympic Movement and established the Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award (formerly the Whang Youn Dai Overcome Prize). Since then, this award has been presented at every Paralympic Games to one male and one female athlete who each "best exemplify the spirit of the Games and inspire and excite the world".[1]

Whang Youn Dai

According to the IPC, "the award is for someone who is fair, honest and is uncompromising in his or her values and prioritizes the promotion of the Paralympic Movement above personal recognition." Six finalists, three female and three male, are selected from participants at the Paralympic Games. Two winners are then selected as recipients of the prize and receive a gold medal at the closing ceremonies of the Games. South African sprint runner Oscar Pistorius was nominated for the award in 2012, but did not win.[2] The IPC decided that from the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, it will no longer be awarded in the closing ceremony for the Paralympics. Instead, it was replaced by the I'mPOSSIBLE Award, established by the Agitos Foundation and the International Paralympic Committee and supported by the Nippon Foundation Paralympic Support Centre.

Winners
Year Host Season Winner NPC Ref
1988 Seoul Summer Anne Trotman  Great Britain [3]
Pier Morten  Canada
1992 Barcelona Summer Jacile Wolfgang  United States [4]
Gabriel Angel  Chile
1996 Atlanta Summer Beatriz Mendoza Rivero  Spain [5]
David Lega  Sweden
1998 Nagano Winter Kim Mi-Jeong  South Korea [6]
Marcin Kos  Poland
2000 Sydney Summer Martina Willing  Germany [7]
Oumar B. Kone  Ivory Coast
2002 Salt Lake City Winter Lauren Woolstencroft  Canada [8]
Axel Hecker  Germany
2004 Athens Summer Zanele Situ  South Africa [9]
Rainer Schmidt  Germany
2006 Torino Winter Olena Iurkovska  Ukraine [10]
Lonnie Hannah  United States
2008 Beijing Summer Natalie Du Toit  South Africa [11]
Said Gomez  Panama
2010 Vancouver Winter Colette Bourgonje  Canada [12]
Endo Takayuki  Japan
2012 London Summer Mary Nakhumicha Zakayo  Kenya [1]
Michael McKillop  Ireland
2014 Sochi Winter Bibian Mentel-Spee  Netherlands [13]
Toby Kane  Australia
2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Tatyana McFadden  United States [14]
Ibrahim Al Hussein  Individual Paralympic Athletes
2018 PyeongChang Winter Sini Pyy  Finland [15]
Adam Hall  New Zealand

References
  1. Duncan Mackay (9 September 2012). "Pistorius overlooked for London 2012 fair play award as Ireland's McKillop chosen". Inside the Games. Archived from the original on 9 September 2012.
  2. "Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award finalists named". Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  3. "Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award - Summer 1988 Seoul". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
  4. "Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award - Summer 1992 Barcelona". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  5. "Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award - Summer 1996 Atlanta". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  6. "Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award - Winter 1998 Nagano". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  7. "Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award - Summer 2000 Sydney". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  8. "Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award - Winter 2002 Barcelona". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  9. "Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award - Summer 2004 Athens". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  10. "Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award - Winter 2006 Torino". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  11. "Winners of Whang Youn Dai Award 2008". International Paralympic Committee. 16 September 2008. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
  12. "Bourgonje and Takayuki to Receive Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award". International Paralympic Committee. 19 March 2010. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
  13. Paxinos, Stathi (15 March 2014). "Sochi Winter Paralympics: Toby Kane becomes first Australian to win Games' top award". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
  14. "Winners revealed for Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award". paralympic.org. 15 September 2016. Retrieved 25 October 2016.
  15. "Whang Youn Dai Award winners announced". paralympic.org. 16 March 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2018.


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