Lenine Cunha

Portuguese sprinter
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroPortuguese sprinter
PlacesPortugal
isRunner Athlete Sprinter
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth4 December 1982, Mafamude, Mafamude e Vilar do Paraíso, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Age42 years
Star signSagittarius
The details

Biography

Lenine Cunha (born 4 December 1982) is a Paralympic athlete from Portugal who competes in T20 classification long jump and triple jump events. Cunha represented Portugal at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in London, in both the long jump and the 100 metre sprint. It would be 12 years until Cunha could again compete at the Paralympics due to the T20 classification being removed from the program due to a scandal at the 2000 Games in Sydney. With the reintroduction of the T20 class at the 2012 London Games he finished third to take the bronze medal in the long jump. In 2015 Cunha won the gold medal in the triple jump at the IPC World Championships in Doha.

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