Kenny van Weeghel

Kenny van Weeghel (born 16 September 1980 in Zwolle) is a Paralympic athlete from the Netherlands competing in the 100, 200 and 400 m T54 class wheelchair racing.[1] He participated in the Paralympic games five times already and he has won 6 Paralympic medals among which two golden ones.

Kenny van Weeghel
At the 2006 IPC World Championships
Personal information
Full nameKenny van Weeghel
NationalityDutch
Born (1980-09-16) 16 September 1980
Zwolle
Websitekennyvanweeghel.nl
Sport
CountryNetherlands
SportParalympic athletics
Disability classT54
Event(s)Wheelchair racing
Achievements and titles
Paralympic finals2004 Summer Paralympics
Medal record
Men's Paralympic athletics
Representing  Netherlands
Paralympic Games
2004 Athens 400 m T54
2016 Rio de Janeiro 400 m T54
2004 Athens 200 m T54
2012 London 400 m T54
2004 Athens 100 m T54
IAAF World Championships
{exhibition events}
2005 Helsinki 100 m T54
2005 Helsinki 200 m T54
IPC World Championships
2002 Lille 100 m T54
2006 Assen 200 m T54
2013 Lyon 200 m T54
2015 Doha 200 m T54
2013 Lyon 100 m T54
2015 Doha 800 m T54
2002 Lille 200 m T54
2002 Lille 400 m T54
2011 Christchurch 100 m T54
2015 Doha 100 m T54
2015 Doha 400 m T54
2017 London100 m T54
IPC European Championships
2012 Stadskanaal 400 m T54
2014 Swansea 400 m T54
2014 Swansea 200 m T54
2012 Stadskanaal 100 m T54
2014 Swansea 100 m T54
2014 Swansea 800 m T54
2018 Berlin 100 m T54
2018 Berlin 200 m T54
2018 Berlin 400 m T54
2018 Berlin 1500 m T54

Athletics career

Weeghel won the 200m at the European Championships in 2001. This was his first main title and there were many to come. In 2002 he became World Champion by winning the 100m and a year later he won both the 100m and 200m during the World Championships. At the European Championships that same year (2003) he won the 200m and 400m.

At the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, he won his first three Paralympic medals: bronze on the 100m, silver on the 200m and gold on the 400m.[2] He was elected Dutch handicapped sportsman of the year.[3]

In 2005 the World Championships in Athletics were held in Helsinki and T54 wheelchair racing was added to the program as an exhibition event. In both the 100m and 200m he won the silver medal behind British athlete David Weir.[4]

In 2006, in Assen in the Netherlands, he became once more World Champion 200m, while taking second place (by a mere 0.01 s) on the 100 m behind David Weir.[5]

Van Weeghel won a silver medal at the Paralympic Games in 2012 in London (400m) and won two Paralympic medals at the Rio de Janeiro Paralympic games in 2016; gold for the 400m and bronze for the 100m.

Personal records
Discipline Result Place Date Notes
100 m 13,78 Arbon 24 juni 2010
200 m 24,22 Arbon 27 mei 2017 European Record
400 m 45,40 Arbon 27 mei 2017
800 m 1:32,80 Arbon 28 mei 2017
1500 m 3:01,30 Nottwil 27 mei 2016

Awards

References
  1. "Official website". kennyvanweeghel.nl (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 2008-02-15.
  2. Wereldvanoranje.nl Profile (in Dutch)
  3. NOCNSF.nl Gehandicapte sporter van het jaar (in Dutch)
  4. IAAF.org Biography
  5. sax.nu Goud voor Kenny van Weeghel op WK (in Dutch)
Kenny van Weeghel on the left at the World Championships in Lyon in 2013.
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