Kenny van Weeghel

In this Dutch name, the surname is van Weeghel, not Weeghel.

Kenny van Weeghel

At the 2006 IPC World Championships
Personal information
Full name	Kenny van Weeghel
Nationality	Dutch
Born	(1980-09-16) 16 September 1980 Zwolle
Website	kennyvanweeghel.nl
Sport
Country	Netherlands
Sport	Paralympic athletics
Disability class	T54
Event	Wheelchair racing
Coached by	Arno Mul
Achievements and titles
Paralympic finals	2004 Summer Paralympics
Medal record Men's Paralympic athletics Representing Netherlands Paralympic Games 2004 Athens 400 m T54 2016 Rio de Janeiro 400 m T54 2004 Athens 200 m T54 2012 London 400 m T54 2004 Athens 100 m T54 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m T54 IAAF World Championships {exhibition events} 2005 Helsinki 100 m T54 2005 Helsinki 200 m T54 IPC World Championships 2002 Lille 100 m T54 2006 Assen 200 m T54 2013 Lyon 200 m T54 2015 Doha 200 m T54 2013 Lyon 100 m T54 2015 Doha 800 m T54 2002 Lille 200 m T54 2002 Lille 400 m T54 2011 Christchurch 100 m T54 2015 Doha 100 m T54 2015 Doha 400 m T54 2017 London 100 m T54 IPC European Championships 2012 Stadskanaal 400 m T54 2014 Swansea 400 m T54 2014 Swansea 200 m T54 2012 Stadskanaal 100 m T54 2014 Swansea 100 m T54 2014 Swansea 800 m T54 2018 Berlin 100 m T54 2018 Berlin 200 m T54 2018 Berlin 400 m T54 2021 Bydgoszcz 100 m T54 2021 Bydgoszcz 400 m T54 2018 Berlin 1500 m T54

Kenny van Weeghel (born 16 September 1980 in Zwolle) is a Paralympic athlete from the Netherlands competing in the 100, 200 and 400 m T54 class wheelchair racing. He participated in the Paralympic games six times already and he has won 6 Paralympic medals among which two golden ones.

Athletics career

Weeghel won the 200m at the European Championships in 2001. This was his first main title and there were many to come. In 2002 he became World Champion by winning the 100m and a year later he won both the 100m and 200m during the World Championships. At the European Championships that same year (2003) he won the 200m and 400m.

At the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, he won his first three Paralympic medals: bronze on the 100m, silver on the 200m and gold on the 400m. He was elected Dutch handicapped sportsman of the year.

In 2005 the World Championships in Athletics were held in Helsinki and T54 wheelchair racing was added to the program as an exhibition event. In both the 100m and 200m he won the silver medal behind British athlete David Weir.

In 2006, in Assen in the Netherlands, he became once more World Champion 200m, while taking second place (by a mere 0.01 s) on the 100 m behind David Weir.

Van Weeghel won a silver medal at the Paralympic Games in 2012 in London (400m) and won two Paralympic medals at the Rio de Janeiro Paralympic games in 2016; gold for the 400m and bronze for the 100m.

Personal records

Discipline	Result	Place	Date	Notes
100 m	13,78	Arbon	24 June 2010
200 m	24,22	Arbon	27 May 2017	European Record
400 m	45,40	Arbon	27 May 2017
800 m	1:32,80	Arbon	28 May 2017
1500 m	3:01,30	Nottwil	27 May 2016

Awards

• Order of the Lion of the Netherlands – 2004
• National disabled sportsman of the year – 2004
• Atletiekunie Paralympic athlete of the year – 2014
• Honorary citizenship of the province of Brabant – 2017

External links

• Official website
• World ranking and athlete information from International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation (archived)
• Kenny van Weeghel at the International Paralympic Committee
• Kenny van Weeghel at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)

Kenny van Weeghel on the left at the World Championships in Lyon in 2013.