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Maroua Brahmi
Personal information
Native name	مروى براهمي
Birth name	Maroua Brahmi
Born	September 19, 1988 (age 36); Gafsa, Tunisia
Years active	2009–2019 (Track and field F32)
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	50 kg (110 lb)
Sport
Disability	Cerebral palsy
Disability class	F32
Club	Tunisian Federation of Sports for the Disabled: Gafsa, TUN
Coached by	Mohammed Yahya
Medal record
Women's para athletics
Representing Tunisia
Paralympic Games
World Championships

Maroua Brahmi (Arabic: مروى براهمي, born September 19, 1988) is a Paralympic athlete from Tunisia competing mainly in category F32 throwing events. She was the 2016 Paralympic Champion in club throw category F32 and the F32 shot put.^[1]

Career

Impaired with cerebral palsy, Brahmi took to sport in 2008,^[1] she made her international debut in 2009,^[1] her first major international competition was at the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships held in Christchurch, New Zealand, where she won a gold medal in the F31/F32/F51 club throw,^[2] she also came 11th in the F32/F34 shot put.^[1]

Brahmi competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, UK. There she won a gold medal in Women's club throw F31/32/51 and a bronze medal in the Women's shot put F32/33/34.^[3]

At the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon, France, on winning the gold medal in the club throw she broke the world record when throwing 24.15 meters,^[4] she also finished 4th in the shot put.^[1]

In the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Qatar, she won gold again in the club throw^[1] she actually only beat Algerian thrower Mounia Gasmi by 4 centimeters^[5] and she followed that with the gold medal in the F32 shot put^[6]

She also managed to win two gold medals at the 2016 Summer Olympics, firstly winning the F32 club throw in a new world record distance of 26.93 meters, and again beating Mounia Gasmi who had to settle for silver medal again,^[7] then eight days later she won the F32 shot put throwing 5.76 meters^[8] which was a new Paralympic record, her nearest opponent was over a meter behind.^[9]

Athletics

Women's Club Throw - F31/32/51
Women's Shot Put - F32/33/34
Women's Club throw F32
Women's Shot put F32

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Maroua Ibrahmi - Bio". paralympic.org. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
^ "2011 IPC Athletics World Championships". scoop.co.nz. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
^ "Results". bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
^ "Lyon 2013 - Day five evening review". paralympic.org. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
^ "Doha 2015 Results". paralympic.org. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
^ "Doha 2015 Results". paralympic.org. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
^ "Women's Club Throw F32". rio2016.com. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
^ "Women's shot put -F32". paralympic.org. Archived from the original on 23 September 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
^ "Paralympic shot put records". paralympic.org. Retrieved 27 October 2016.