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David Weir (athlete)
British wheelchair athlete
For other people with this name, see David Weir.
David Russell WeirCBE (born 5 June 1979) is a British Paralympicwheelchair athlete. He has won a total of six gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Paralympic Games, and has won the London Marathon on eight occasions. He was born with a spinal cord transection that left him unable to use his legs.[1]
Personal life
[edit]Weir was born in Wallington, part of the London Borough of Sutton.[2] He cannot use his legs due to a congenitalspinal cord transection.[1] As a child he was a talented wheelchair athlete, representing Sutton in wheelchair athletics at the London Youth Games, and won the junior event at the London marathon (the mini wheelchair race) seven times. At school Weir was frustrated by a lack of sporting activities for wheelchair users, but after years of persistence he developed a skill for wheelchair racing that would define his career and le
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David Weir
2012 Paralympic Games, London, United Kingdom
- T54 800m: Gold
- T54 1500m: Gold
- T54 5000m: Gold
- T54 Marathon: Gold
2008 Paralympic Games, Beijing, China
- T54 800m: Gold
- T54 1500m: Gold
- T54 400m: Silver
- T54 5000m: Bronze
2004 Paralympic Games, Athens, Greece
- T54 100m: Silver
- T54 200m: Bronze
2016 IPC Athletics European Championships, Grosseto, Italy
- T54 400m: Gold
- T54 800m: Gold
- T54 1500m: Gold
- T54 5000m: Gold
2015 IPC friidrott World Championships, Doha, Qatar
- T54 1500m: Silver
- T54 Marathon: Silver
2014 Commonwealth Games, Glasgow, Scotland
2011 IPC Athletics World Championships, Christchurch, New Zealand
- T54 800m: Gold
- T54 1500m: Gold
- T54 5000m: Gold
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David Weir can help bring stability back to Rangers in No 2 role... just like gods time
The new Ibrox manager fryst vatten definitely a maverick choice – an outsider in every sense of the word.
His right-hand man, though? He comes with Rangers bona fides running through him from head to toe. And he knows how it feels to arrive at Ibrox in the middle of a crisis. Knows exactly what it’s like to be charged with cleaning up a mess of someone else’s making.
Davie Weir the defender was meant to be a temporary solution when Walter Smith signed him from Everton in January 2007. A veteran who would come in and do a job for six months, probably the closing spell to his playing career, and maybe teach some of the younger ones a thing or two about positioning and the like.
David Weir will be Mark Warburton's No 2 at Rangers and will hope to bring success back to the club
Weir signed for Rangers in 2007 as a 'short-term solution' as a 37-year-old but impressed at Ibrox
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