Wissam Ben Bahri 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 ...

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from

Tunisia Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...

competing mainly in category F20 long jump and high jump events. Wissam competed at the

1996 Summer Paralympics The 1996 Paralympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, were held from August 16 to 25. It was the first Paralympics to get mass media sponsorship, and had a budget of USD $81 million. It was the first Paralympic Games where Internatio ...

where he won a silver medal in the long jump as well as competing in the 200m. He won a second silver in the long jump 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 ...

where he also won a gold in the high jump and competed in the 100m.
Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games Results

References

Paralympic athletes for Tunisia Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Paralympic gold medalists for Tunisia Paralympic silver medalists for Tunisia Living people Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics Tunisian long jumpers Tunisian male high jumpers Year of birth missing (living people) Paralympic medalists in athletics (track and field) 20th-century Tunisian people 21st-century Tunisian people {{Tunisia-Paralympic-medalist-stub