Paralympic Cross-Country Skiers by Year - Cross-Country Skiers at the 1976 Winter Paralympics (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Cross-Country Skiers at the 1976 Winter Paralympics, Cross-Country Skiers at the 1980 Winter Paralympics, Cross-Country Skiers at the 1984 Winter Paralympics, Cross-Country Skiers at the 1988 Winter Paralympics, Cross-Country Skiers at the 1992 Winter Paralympics, Cross-Country Skiers at the 1994 Winter Paralympics, Cross-Country Skiers at the 1998 Winter Paralympics, Cross-Country Skiers at the 2002 Winter Paralympics, Cross-Country Skiers at the 2006 Winter Paralympics, Cross-Country Skiers at the 2010 Winter Paralympics, Tofiri Kibuuka, Ragnhild Myklebust, Andy Soule, Graham Salmon, Brian Mckeever, Heinz Frei, Cato Zahl Pedersen, Hans Anton Aalien, Liudmila Vauchok, Frank Hfle, Jouko Grip, Verena Bentele, Katarzyna Rogowiec, Francesca Porcellato, Valentina Grigoryeva, Rustam Garifoullin, Alain Marguerettaz, Kjartan Haugen, Steve Cook. Excerpt: Tofiri Kibuuka is a Norwegian athlete. Ugandan by birth, he competed for Uganda before obtaining Norwegian citizenship. He has participated in both the Winter Paralympic Games, in cross-country skiing (for Uganda) and in the Summer Paralympic Games, in mid- and long distance running (for Norway). Active from 1976 to 2000, he won five Paralympic silver medals, and one bronze. He holds the distinction of being the first African to have competed at the Winter Paralympics, and more generally the only athlete from a tropical nation to have done so. He is also one of only two Africans to have competed at the Winter Games, the other being Bruce Warner of South Africa (since 1998). Kibuuka studied at the Outward Bound School in Kenya. In 1968, he was one of the first blind people to ascend successfully to the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro, earning media attention as well as praise from the Ugandan Minister o... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=26281511