roderick townsend-roberts won the gold medal in the f44 men's high jump of the summer paralympics game in rio 2016.
roderick townsend-roberts won the gold medal in the f44 men's high jump of the summer paralympics game in rio 2016.
who won the gold medal in the f44 men's high jump of the summer paralympics game in rio 2016?
roderick townsend-roberts
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at the age of ten in 1994, márcio fernandes was involved in a car accident which resulted in the amputation of his left leg and has used a prosthetic since. he was participating in his second paralympic games after representing cape verde at the 2012 london paralympics and he was 33 years old at the time of the rio summer paralympic games. fernandes was placed into the disability classification t44. he earned automatic qualification to the rio games because his throw of 50.91 metres, achieved at the 2015 african games on 15 september 2015, exceeded the "a" qualifying standard for the f44 men's javelin event by 2.91 metres. fernandes spent time training in london, portugal and cape verde as part of his preparation for the paralympics. before the paralympics, he said he believed in his potential and stated he would perform to the best of his ability, "expectations are high, i was world champion last year and it's normal for people to want to repeat every success. i will do my best, compete with maximum strength and fight to be on the podium, but everything will depend on the conditioners and other opponents. i will give my 200% and soon you will see the results." fernandes competed in the men's f44 men's javelin on 9 september. on his first try, he achieved a throw of 50.46 metres, 51.37 metres on his second attempt, and his third (and best) was 51.67 metres. this placed fernandes ninth out of sixteen athletes.
cape verde at the 2016 summer paralympics