Lenine Cunha
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Nationality | Portuguese |
Born | Mafamude, Portugal | 4 December 1982
Height | 176 cm (5 ft 9 in) |
Sport | |
Country | Portugal |
Sport | Track and field |
Disability class | (T20) |
Event | long jump |
Club | Sport Club Lenine Cunha |
Coached by | Jose Costa Pereira |
Medal record |
Lenine Cunha (born 4 December 1982) is a Paralympic athlete from Portugal who competes in T20 classification long jump and triple jump events.[1] Cunha represented Portugal at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in London, in both the long jump and the 100 metre sprint. It would be 12 years until Cunha could again compete at the Paralympics due to the T20 classification being removed from the program due to a scandal at the 2000 Games in Sydney. With the reintroduction of the T20 class at the 2012 London Games he finished third to take the bronze medal in the long jump. In 2015 Cunha won the gold medal in the triple jump at the IPC World Championships in Doha.[2]
References
- ^ "Cunah, Lenine". paralympic.org. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ "Cunah, Lenine". IPC. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
Categories:
- Paralympic athletes of Portugal
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Portugal
- Living people
- 1982 births
- Portuguese male long jumpers
- Portuguese male triple jumpers
- Portuguese male sprinters
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- People from Mafamude