Riaan Liebenberg is a

paralympic The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Kore ...

athlete An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track ...

from

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

competing mainly in category T13 sprints events. Riian competed in the 100m, 200m and 400m in the T13 class at the

2000 Summer Paralympics The 2000 Summer Paralympic Games or the XI Summer Paralympics were held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, between 18 and 29 October. The Sydney Paralympics was the last time that the Summer Paralympics were organized by two different Organ ...

winning a silver medal in the 400m.profile on paralympic.org
/ref>

References

Paralympic athletes for South Africa Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Paralympic silver medalists for South Africa Afrikaner people South African people of Dutch descent South African people of German descent Living people Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Year of birth missing (living people) Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) South African male sprinters 20th-century South African people 21st-century South African people Visually impaired sprinters Paralympic sprinters {{SouthAfrica-Paralympic-medalist-stub