| Marie-Line Pollet | |
| Sport: | Paralympic athletics Paralympic table tennis |
| Disability: | Paraplegia |
| Event: | Pentathlon Javelin throw Shot put Discus throw 100 meters 200 meters Table tennis |
Marie-Line Pollet is a Belgian former para-athlete, wheelchair racer and para table tennis player. Made paraplegic by polio since the age of 11 months old, she is a multiple Parasports Belgian, European, and World champion, a multiple Paralympic medalist who held multiple Parasports word records.[1] [2]
She is Belgium's most successful athlete at the Summer Paralympics, having won nine medals between 1984 and 1996.[3] She started her Olympic career at the Paralympics in 1980 where she won no medals. In her second Paralympics in 1984, she was a gold medalist in the shot put (category 2) and pentathlon (category 2), and won a silver in the discus throw (category 2). 5 further medals followed in 1988, this time she won a gold medal in the pentathlon (category 4), two silver ones in the 200 m wheelchair racing (category 4) and discus throw (category 4), and 2 bronzes ones in the 100 m wheelchair racing (category 4) and shot put (category 4). Later on in her career, she switched to table tennis and won a bronze medal in that discipline (category 3) at the 1996 Summer Paralympics