Javier Salmerón
Appearance
Medal record | ||
---|---|---|
Track and field (athletics) | ||
Representing ![]() | ||
Paralympic Games | ||
![]() |
1992 Barcelona | 400 metres - C8 |
![]() |
1992 Barcelona | 4x100 metre relay - C5-8 |
![]() |
1988 Seoul | 800 metres - C8 |
Javier Salmeron is a paralympic athlete from Spain competing mainly in category C8 400m events.
Javier competed in both the 1988 and 1992 Summer Paralympics as part of the Spanish athletics team. At the 1988 games he finished eighth in the 100m but won a bronze in the 800m. In the 1992 games he was unable to repeat this feat in the 800m as he failed to make the final, he did however finish sixth in the 200m, fourth in the 100m and won a silver medal in the 400m behind Canada's Frank Bruno who set a new world record, he was also part of the Spanish team that finished second in the 4 × 100 m behind the United States.[1]
References
- ^ "Javier Salmeron". Paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee.
External links
Categories:
- Paralympic athletes for Spain
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic silver medalists for Spain
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Spain
- Spanish male sprinters
- Spanish male middle-distance runners
- Living people
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- 20th-century Spanish people
- Spanish athletics biography stubs
- Spanish Paralympic medalist stubs