Jackie Christiansen

Education

Christiansen has competed in four Paralympics starting in 2000 in Sydney, Australia where he finished sixth in the shot putt for F44 athletes.

Career

When he was 17, he broke his leg during a football game. Because of a medical error, he developed gangrene, and his left leg was amputated below the knee. He competes in throwing events in the F44 classification.

He later improved on this, winning gold in 2004 in the F44/46 class and in 2008 in the F44 class.

Jackie Christiansen holds the world shot put record in the F44 class with 18.38 set 21 August 2011 in Olomouc, Czechoslovakian Republic. Jackie Christiansen was trained by East.g.

Gregersen and from 2011 by Simon Stewart. Jackie Christiansen is a graduate orthopedist.

In February 2016, Christiansen announced the end of his active sports career as his shot put disability class wasn"t on the programme for the Paralympic Games in Rio 2016.

Achievements

• He also won two silver medals in the discus, in the F44/46 class in 2004 and the F44 class in 2008. He won the F42/44 shot put gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London.