Iris Pruysen
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Born | Zwijndrecht, Netherlands | 26 November 1987|||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Paralympic athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | T44 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Iris Pruysen (born 26 November 1987) is a Dutch retired Paralympic athlete who competed in sprinting and long jump at international elite competitions. She is a World champion and a European bronze medalist in long jump. Pruysen lost her lower right leg following a gas explosion on a boat at a sailing camp in IJsselmeer. She had her leg amputated a few days later in Erasmus Hospital in Rotterdam.[1][2]
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- ^ "Iris Pruysen - IPC Athlete Bio". ipc.infostradasports.com. 1 July 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Iris Pruysen can still make so much progress (in Dutch)". Atletiek.nl. 29 August 2012.
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Categories:
- 1987 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Zwijndrecht, Netherlands
- Paralympic athletes of the Netherlands
- Dutch female sprinters
- Dutch female long jumpers
- World Para Athletics Championships winners
- Medalists at the World Para Athletics European Championships
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics