Daniel Louw is a

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competing mainly in category T46 sprint events. Louw competed in the

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. He competed in all three sprints winning a bronze medal in the 200m and finishing fifth in both the 100m and 400m.

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* Paralympic athletes for South Africa Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Paralympic bronze medalists for South Africa Living people Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Year of birth missing (living people) Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) South African male sprinters 20th-century South African people Sprinters with limb difference Paralympic sprinters {{SouthAfrica-Paralympic-medalist-stub