Andreas Onea

Andreas Daniel Onea (born 9 July 1992)^[1] is an Austrian Paralympic swimmer. He represented Austria at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. In 2016 he won the bronze medal in the men's 100 metre breaststroke SB8 event.^[2]^[3] His left arm got amputated after injuries sustained in a car accident.^[4]

At the 2013 World Championships he won the silver medal in the men's 100 metre breaststroke SB8 event. Two years later at the 2015 World Championships he won the bronze medal in the same event. At the 2016 IPC Swimming European Championships he won two medals: the silver medal in the men's 100m breaststroke SB8 and the bronze medal in the 200m individual medley SB8 event.

References

^ "Andreas Onea". Rio2016.com. Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-10-01.
^ "Andreas Onea". paralympic.org. International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 8 January 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "Austria's Onea on agonising four-year medal wait". paralympic.org. 18 January 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "How Andreas Onea turned an accident into action". European Commission. 27 November 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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