Dan Greaves

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.

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.