ABRAHAM GEBRU Daniel

Netherlands
Cycling Road
11 Feb 1985
36
Male
C5
 
Eritrea
AMSTELVEEN
 
Netherlands

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
CRD Cycling Road Men's C4-5 Road Race 3 Bronze Medal
Men's C5 Time Trial 1 Gold Medal

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Fuji International Speedway
Men's C5 Time Trial
Finished
Fuji International Speedway
Men's C4-5 Road Race
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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CYCLING ROAD
RankEventYearLocation
Paralympic Games
1C4-5 Road Race2016Rio de Janeiro, BRA
4C5 Time Trial2016Rio de Janeiro, BRA
Road World Championships
1C5 Time Trial2021Cascais, POR
1C5 Time Trial2018Maniago, ITA
1C5 Time Trial2017Pietermaritzburg, RSA
2C5 Time Trial2019Emmen, NED
3C5 Time Trial2014Greenville, SC, USA
4Men's C5 - Road Race2018Maniago, ITA
4Men's C5 - Road Race2014Greenville, SC, USA
5Men's C5 - Road Race2021Cascais, POR
6C5 Time Trial2015Nottwil, SUI
8Men's C5 - Road Race2019Emmen, NED
8Men's C5 - Road Race2015Nottwil, SUI
11Men's C5 - Road Race2017Pietermaritzburg, RSA
Track World Championships
2Men's C5 - Scratch Race2020Milton, ON, CAN
3Men's C5 - Scratch Race2019Apeldoorn, NED
6Men's C5 - Omnium2020Milton, ON, CAN

CYCLING TRACK
RankEventYearLocation
Track World Championships
3C5 4000m Individual Pursuit2019Apeldoorn, NED
3C5 4000m Individual Pursuit2018Rio de Janeiro, BRA
3Men's C4-5 - Scratch Race2018Rio de Janeiro, BRA
5C5 4000m Individual Pursuit2020Milton, ON, CAN
7C1-5 750m Team Sprint2018Rio de Janeiro, BRA
14Men's C5 - 1000m Time Trial2018Rio de Janeiro, BRA
18Men's C5 - 1000m Time Trial2020Milton, ON, CAN
21Men's C5 - 1000m Time Trial2019Apeldoorn, NED
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Dutch
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BEAT Cycling Club [Netherlands]
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Eelke van der Wal [national], NED; Floris Goesinnen [national], NED
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He has represented the Netherlands in both Para road cycling and Para track cycling. He has also competed in able-bodied cycling for the BEAT Cycling Club in the Netherlands. (beatcyclingclub.com, 03 Feb 2020)
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He began to pursue able-bodied cycling in 2010, and took up Para cycling after his able-bodied team was disbanded in 2012. (nos.nl, 19 Sep 2015)
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He had been a junior national champion in cycling in Eritrea, and when he moved to the Netherlands he joined a cycling club through his foster parents. In 2010, after a break from the sport, he met a former teammate who wondered why he had stopped cycling. He got back on his bike and got a contract with the able-bodied Marco Polo Cycling Team. When the team disbanded due to a lack of funds in 2012, he began to pursue Para cycling, as his leg impairment meant he was eligible to compete. (nos.nl, 19 Sep 2015)
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To win two gold medals - one in track cycling and one in road cycling - at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (beatcyclingclub.com, 03 Feb 2020)
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He received the Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau in the Netherlands after winning a gold medal in the road race at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (beatcyclingclub.com, 03 Feb 2020)

General Interest

Classification
C5 (UCI, 15 Mar 2020)

Origin of Impairment
Congenital (volkskrant.nl, 19 Sep 2016)

Impairment Details
He was born with an underdeveloped left leg. (volkskrant.nl, 19 Sep 2016)

General
FROM ERITREA TO NETHERLANDS
He was born in Eritrea, but in 2000 he was told his parents were in Europe and he had to go and meet them. His parents had actually been caught up in the conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia, but they had arranged for him to leave the country if anything happened to them, so he was driven through Ethiopia to Kenya where he boarded a flight to Amsterdam, Netherlands. He had refugee status in Netherlands for the first eight years, but after the general amnesty in 2008 he was given a residence permit. He eventually learnt that his father had died in an Ethiopian prison, but his mother had escaped back to Eritrea. He would meet her again 13 years after he left his home country. (beatcyclingclub.com, 03 Feb 2020; nos.nl, 19 Sep 2015)

AMBASSADOR
He has served as an ambassador for NLTraining, an education provider in the Netherlands. He speaks to refugees about his experiences and the value of sport and education. (beatcyclingclub.com, 03 Feb 2020)

Legend
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Bronze Medal
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Bronze Medal Event
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