Claudiney Batista

Claudiney Batista dos Santos

Batista at the 2016 paralympics
Personal information
Full name	Claudiney Batista dos Santos
Nationality	Brazilian
Born	(1978-11-13) 13 November 1978
Sport
Country	Brazil
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	F57 Shot put F57 Discus F57 Javelin
Club	Clube Amigos dos Deficientes
Achievements and titles
Paralympic finals	2012 2016
Highest world ranking	javelin: 1st
Personal best(s)	Javelin: 45.38 m
Medal record Track and field (athletics) Representing  Brazil Paralympic Games 2012 London Javelin – F57/58 2016 Rio de Janeiro Discus – F57 IPC World Championships 2013 Lyon Javelin – F57/58 2015 Doha Discus – F57 2013 Lyon Discus – F57/58 2015 Doha Javelin – F57 Parapan American Games 2011 Guadalajara Javelin – F57/58 2011 Guadalajara Discus – F57/58

Claudiney Batista dos Santos (born 13 November 1978) is a Paralympian athlete from Brazil competing in category F57/T57 throwing events. He won a silver medal in the javelin throw at the 2012 Paralympics and a gold medal in the discus throw at the 2016 Rio Games.^[1]

Career history

Batista was born able bodied, but after a road accident in May 2005 part of his left leg needed to be amputated. While in hospital he was visited by para-athletic organisations offering sport as a way to help in his recovery. He refused to accept their invitation for over two years, before changing his mind. In 2011 he was part of the Brazilian team which entered into the 2011 Parapan American Games. He entered the javelin and discus, both in the joint F57/58 class, winning the javelin and coming third in the discus.^[2] He followed this by being selected for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, entering all three throwing events in the F57/58 class. In the discus, he threw a distance of 45.90m, which did not convert to enough points to see him onto the podium, finishing instead at fourth place.^[3] In the shot put he finished seventh. His strongest event, the javelin, saw him record a distance of 45.38m, a new world record, only to see his rival, Iran's Mohammad Khalvandi, also throw a world record as a F58 athlete to snatch the gold from Batista dos Santos by 20 points.^[4]

At the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France, Batista dos Santos was again on the podium. He came third in the discus, taking bronze, and second in the javelin beaten again by Mohammad Khalvandi.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Claudiney Batista.

• Results for Claudiney Santos from the International Paralympic Committee