Marjaana Väre
Appearance
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Track and field (athletics) | ||
Representing Finland | ||
Paralympic Games | ||
2004 Athens | Javelin Throw - F42-46 |
Marjaana Väre (born 10 January 1967, in Helsinki) is a Paralympian athlete from Finland competing mainly in category F42-46 javelin events.
Väre has competed in 4 Paralympics in two different sports. She first competed in 1992 in Barcelona in various swimming events but failed to win any medals. It was the same story in Atlanta in 1996. After missing the 2000 games she returned in 2004 in the Athletics events and won a gold medal in the F42-46 javelin as well as competing in the discus. Four years later, however she was unable to defend her title coming away with nothing from the F42-46 javelin.
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- 1967 births
- Sportspeople from Helsinki
- Paralympic athletes of Finland
- Paralympic swimmers of Finland
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Finland
- Finnish female swimmers
- Living people
- Finnish female shot putters
- Finnish female javelin throwers
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
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