JACQUES Yeltsin

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
Paralympic Games
5	5000m - T13	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	15:02.13
11	1500m - T13	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	3:58.92
World Championships
2	Men's 1500m T12	2013	Lyon, FRA	4:03.52
3	Men's 800m T12	2013	Lyon, FRA	1:56.59
5	1500m - T13	2015	Doha, QAT	3:58.01
6	5000m - T13	2015	Doha, QAT	15:49.29

Athlete

Physical Education - Estacio de Sa University, Brazil

Wife Janayna

English, Portuguese

Associacao Desportiva para Deficientes [ADD] [Sao Paulo, BRA]

2013 for Brazil, World Championships in Lyon, France (Athlete, 23 Oct 2015)

In 2016 he contracted mumps and sustained an injury which prevented him from training for four months. He returned to competition at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (O Estado, 16 Jul 2021)

He took up Para athletics at age 16 in Campo Grande, Brazil. (Athlete, 23 Oct 2015; NPC Media Guide, 15 Aug 2015)

He practised Para judo before switching to Para athletics. "I started running with a friend who was blind and liked to run as preparation for judo. But I fell in love, dropped judo and began Para athletics." (O Estado, 16 Jul 2021)

To win gold at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (O Estado, 16 Jul 2021)

Brazilian marathon runner Vanderlei Cordeiro de Lima. (Athlete, 23 Oct 2015)

His mother. (Athlete, 23 Oct 2015)