Léon Schäfer
 Schäfer in 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Léon Gabrial Schäfer | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 June 1997 Hanover, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Home town | Bremen, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Paralympic athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability | Leg amputation due to bone cancer | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | T42, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Léon Gabrial Schäfer (born 13 June 1997) is a German Paralympic athlete who competes in mainly sprinting and long jump events at international level events and is a current world record holder in the men's long jump T63. He has represented Germany at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. He finished in fourth place at the men's long jump T42 where he narrowly missed the bronze medal and will be representing Germany at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan.[1][2][3]
When Schäfer was twelve years old, he went ice skating and fell and skidded along the ice. He noticed that a bump was visible on his right leg that he injured after his fall on ice, he went to see a doctor and got a biopsy of his shin bone and two months later, it was revealed that he had malignant bone cancer. After the diagnosis, he started chemotherapy and they operated on the affected bone part of his shin and inserted an iron rod but his foot didn't accept the rod and it developed gangrene and he ended up having part of his right leg to be amputated.[4]
References[]
- ^ "Leon Schaefer - IPC Athlete Bio". ipc.infostradasports.com. 7 August 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Athletics Top Team - Leon Schaefer". TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen. 7 August 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Leon Schafer - Team Deutschland (in German)". Team Deutschland. 7 August 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Leon Schaefer interview (in German)". Spox. 6 January 2020.
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- 1997 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Hanover
- People from Leverkusen
- Sportspeople from Bremen
- Paralympic athletes of Germany
- German male sprinters
- German male long jumpers
- German male high jumpers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the World Para Athletics Championships
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics