BLAIR David

United States of America

Date of Birth: 25 Sep 1975

Age: 45

Gender: Male

Sport Class: F44

Place of birth: OGDEN, UT

Birth Country:

United States of America

Place of residence : EAGLE MOUNTAIN, UT

Residence Country:

United States of America

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Men's Discus Throw - F64	4

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Standing - Standing Discus	Men's Discus Throw - F64 Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
Paralympic Games
1	Discus Throw - F44	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	64.11
World Championships
2	Discus Throw - F64	2019	Dubai, UAE	59.87
2	Discus Throw - F44	2017	London, GBR	62.47
2	Discus Throw - F44	2015	Doha, QAT	60.46
3	Men's Shot Put F44	2015	Doha, QAT	15.49

Spending time with family. (Instagram profile, 19 Feb 2020)

Computer Science - Weber State University, Ogden, UT, USA

Wife Cindy, daughters Alyssa, Aubriela, Bethany, and Mayzie

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He competed in able-bodied athletics for Weber State University in the United States of America. (teamusa.org, 06 Nov 2020)

He sustained a stress fracture to the fifth metatarsal of his left foot in March 2019. He was able to throw again 12 weeks later. (Instagram profile, 19 Feb 2020)

He began throwing the discus at high school and continued through university, before giving it up. He took up Para athletics in 2015 after 16 years away from the sport. (teamusa.org, 19 Sep 2016)

He never considered becoming a thrower growing up as his passion was baseball. One high school coach told him that it would be easier to get a scholarship in a field event than in baseball, so he decided to try able-bodied athletics. Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius' performance at the 2012 Olympic Games in London motivated him to think about picking up the sport again as a Para athlete. In 2015 he learned Jeremy Campbell had become the first Para athlete to throw over 60 metres and made the decision to start pursuing the sport. "It made something in my head click. I'm like, 'Hey, he [Oscar Pistorius] has more movement in those prosthetics than I have in my foot. In 1999, which was nine years sooner, almost 10 years sooner, I'd already thrown that [60 metres], but I'd thrown it with a heavier implement. My freshman year in college, which was 1994, without question I could've thrown it 60 metres." (teamusa.org, 06 Nov 2020)

To win gold at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (teamusa.org, 06 Nov 2020)

He won the Male Adaptive Athlete of the Year award at the 2016 Governor's State of Sport Awards, presented by the Utah Sports Commission. (teamusa.org, 19 Sep 2016)

General Interest

Classification
F44 (IPC, 19 Feb 2021)

Type of Impairment
Limb deficiency (teamusa.org, 06 Nov 2020)

Origin of Impairment
Congenital (teamusa.org, 19 Sep 2016)

Impairment Details
He was born with congenital talipes equinovarus, commonly known as club foot. (teamusa.org, 19 Sep 2016)

General
ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP
After winning a high school state championship in the discus throw against able-bodied athletes, he received an athletic scholarship to Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. He quit the discus after university, but in 2015 he discovered that he was eligible to compete at the Paralympic Games, and returned to the sport after 16 years away. "I had no idea that my limb deficiency would have qualified me for the Paralympics. I still remember how bad the pain was on my very last meet in college." (teamusa.org, 06 Nov 2020, 19 Sep 2016)

SCOUTING
He has a long-term affiliation with the Eagle Scout troop, having been a scout, scoutmaster, and committee chairman among other roles. "It was every Wednesday, and we always went to the scout camps, earned the merit badges that we needed to and put in my time on my own to make sure that I got the requirements done. I still remember the pain my foot I had the morning after a long, 20-mile hike at Camp Loll. I was not much use for walking the next day but still went out on all the activities and if they needed to wait for me, they did. No complaining from them. I think now more than ever, this generation of young men need something like scouting to get them out from in front of their screens, learning hands-on about new things and seeing new places that they have never been and would not have been otherwise." (blog.scoutingmagazine.org, 14 Sep 2016)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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