Dan Greaves

Background

Greaves was born in Anstey, Leicestershire in 1982.

Career

Despite being born with a deformity of the feet, Greaves was selected to join the British able-bodied team in a competition against the United States in 2001. Greaves competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, winning a bronze medal in the F44 discus throw. He broke the world record again at the pre-IPC World Athletics Championships in New Zealand in January 2011, throwing 59.98m on his fourth throw.

Achievements

• Greaves won the gold medal in the F44/46 category discus throw at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, establishing a new world record with a throw of 55.12m. He had previously won silver at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney.