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Dan West
Personal information
Full nameDaniel West
NationalityBritish
Born (1977-12-15) 15 December 1977 (age 46)
Cambridge, England
Sport
CountryGreat Britain
SportAthletics
Event(s)F34 Shot put
F34 Discus
ClubNotts
Coached byJim Edwards
Achievements and titles
Paralympic finals1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012
Personal best(s)Shot Put: 11.37m
Discus: 38.16m
Medal record
Track and field (athletics)
Representing  United Kingdom
Paralympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens Discus Throw - F33-34
Bronze medal – third place 1996 Atlanta Shot Putt - F32-33
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sydney Discus Throw - F34
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2010 Delhi Shot Put (F32/34/52)

Daniel "Dan" West (born 15 December 1977) is a Paralympian athlete from England competing mainly in category 34 throwing events. He has represented Great Britain in four Paralympic Games and has qualified for the team for a fifth time at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. West has two bronze Paralympic medals and one silver, all in the shot put, and has medalled in the IPC World Championships and the Commonwealth Games.

Life history

West was born in Cambridge, England in 1977.[1][2] West, who has cerebral palsy, credits his parents for instilling in him a love of sport, and in his younger days engaged in both wheelchair basketball and swimming.[2][3] He switched to athletics as a teenager, citing a preference to individual sports, and took to the throwing events, specialising in both the discus and shot put.[3]

West was selected at the age of 18 to represent Great Britain in the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta at both shot and discus. He finished 8th in discus but his third place in the shot put saw him collect the bronze medal.[4] Despite the medal, West, who was the world number one in the shot going into the games, saw his result as a disappointment and spurred him to improve his training.[3] Two years later he was again representing Great Britain, this time at the World Championships, and again it was his shot that was the stronger of the two events, collecting the silver medal.[4] In 2000 West was reselected for the Paralympics, again entering the shot and discus. He again won a bronze medal, but this time in the discus.[4]

In 2002, another World Championship resulted in another two medals, silver in the shot put and bronze in the discus. With a shot put bronze in the European Games in 2003, West was selected for his third Paralympics, in Athens. His third Paralympics saw him pick up his third medal, this time a silver in the discus.[4] In 2006 he competed in his most successful event picking up silver in both events at the World Championships in Assen in the Netherlands.[4] In the World Championships West threw a personal best of 38.16m in the discus, only to be beaten to the gold when Saleh Farajzadeh of Iran thre a new world record of 39.98.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Dan West". channel4.com. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Dan West". paralympics.org.uk. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
  3. ^ a b c "Dan West interview". uka.org.uk. 31 October 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Dan West". Retrieved 27 August 2012.

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