Dan Greaves
Athlete Information
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Region
Leicester
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Date of Birth
03/10/1982
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Classification
F64 discus
Athlete main content
Greaves has medalled at all six of the Paralympic Games at which he has competed. He won gold at Athens 2004, where he set a new world record, as well as silver medals at Sydney 2000 and London 2012, and bronze medals at Beijing 2008, Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. Paris will be his seventh games in a row.
Alongside his haul of Paralympic medals, Dan also holds four World Championship medals. At the 2011 World Para Athletics Championships in New Zealand, he broke the world record with a throw of 59.98m.
He claimed gold at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and has finished on the podium at European Championships too - F64 discus gold at Berlin 2018 and silver at Bydgoszcz 2021.
He took up athletics at age 14 in Loughborough, England. In 2001 he became the first Paralympian to represent Great Britain in an able-bodied event with selection for the GB junior team. He is an avid Aston Villa fan.
Major results
Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
- F64 discus: bronze
Rio 2016 Paralympic Games
- F44 discus: bronze
London 2012 Paralympic Games
- F44 discus: silver
Bejing 2008 Paralympic Games
- F44 discus: bronze
Athens 2004 Paralympic Games
- F44/46 discus: gold
Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games
- F44 discus: silver
World Championships
- 2002, 2006, 2011: discus F44 gold
- 2013: discus F44 silver
- 2023: F44 discus bronze
European Championships
- 2001: F44 discus gold
- 2018: discus F64 gold
- 2021: discus F64 silver
Commonwealth Games
- 2014: F42/44 discus: gold
- 2022: F42/44 discus: 4th
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