Toni Piispanen

Toni Piispanen
Personal information
Nationality	Finnish
Born	24 July 1976 (age 48)
Sport
Sport	Para-athletics ; Wheelchair rugby ;
Disability class	T51
Club	Espoon Tapiot
Coached by	Jari Nordblom ; Heini Sistonen ; Teemu Janhunen ; Marko Hyytiäinen ; Rauno Saunavaara
Medal record
Men's para-athletics
Representing Finland
Paralympic Games
World Championships
European Championships

Toni Piispanen (born 24 July 1976) is a Finnish Paralympic athlete.

Career

He started as an able-bodied karate competitor and became disabled due to an accident that injured his spinal cord at a karate show in 1993. This accident occurred in Lahti in front of hundreds of spectators. After that he played Wheelchair rugby for fifteen years before switching to wheelchair racing in 2008.^[1] He is a world record holder in his classification.^[2] At the 2012 Summer Paralympics he won gold in the men's T-51 class 100-metre wheelchair sprint.^[3]

References

^ "IPC bio". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
^ IPC Records
^ Helsingin Sanomat

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[1] "IPC bio". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2012.

[2] IPC Records

[3] Helsingin Sanomat

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