Toni Piispanen

Toni Piispanen

Medal record
Men's Paralympic athletics
Representing  Finland
Paralympic Games
	2012 London	100 m T51
	2020 Tokyo	200 m T51
	2020 Tokyo	100 m T51
World Championships
	2013 Lyon	100 m T51
	2019 Dubai	100 m T51
	2011 Christchurch	100 m T51
	2013 Lyon	200 m T51
	2015 Doha	100 m T51
	2017 London	100 m T51
	2019 Dubai	200 m T51
	2011 Christchurch	200 m T51
	2015 Doha	400 m T51
European Championships
	2014 Swansea	100 m T51
	2014 Swansea	400 m T51
	2021 Bydgoszcz	100 m T51
	2016 Grosseto	100 m T51
	2018 Berlin	100 m T51
	2018 Berlin	200 m T51
	2021 Bydgoszcz	200 m T51
	2016 Grosseto	400 m T51

Toni Piispanen (born 24 July 1976) is a Paralympic athlete for Finland. He started as an able-bodied karate competitor and became disabled due to an accident that injured his spinal cord at a karate show in 1993. This accident occurred in Lahti in front of hundreds of spectators. After that he played Wheelchair rugby for fifteen years before switching to wheelchair racing in 2008.^[1] He is a world record holder in his classification.^[2] At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he won gold in the men’s T-51 class 100-metre wheelchair sprint.^[3]

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