Sabine Wagner is a
paralympic
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaired ...
athlete
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from
Germany
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competing mainly in category T46 sprint events.
Sabine has competed at two Paralympics. Her first in
2000
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saw her finish second behind American
Shea Cowart in both the 100m and 200m. In her second games in
2004
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Events January
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she failed to match this performance missing out on the medals in the 100m, 200m and long jump.
profile on paralympic.org
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References
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Paralympic athletes for Germany
Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic silver medalists for Germany
Living people
Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
Year of birth missing (living people)
Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
German female sprinters
Sprinters with limb difference
Paralympic sprinters
20th-century German sportswomen
21st-century German sportswomen
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