Rima Abdelli Explained

Rima Abdelli
Birth Place:Madanin, Tunisia
Country:Tunisia
Sport:Para-athletics
Disability:Short stature
Disability Class:F40
Event:Shot put

Rima Abdelli (born 24 February 1988 in Madanin)[1] [2] is a Tunisian Paralympic athlete of short stature and she competes in F40-classification events.[3] She represented Tunisia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and she won the silver medal in the women's shot put F40 event.[3] [4] [5] In 2019, she qualified to represent Tunisia at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan.

At the 2015 World Championships held in Doha, Qatar, she won the bronze medal in the women's shot put F40 event.[5] Two years later, at the 2017 World Championships held in London, United Kingdom, she set a new personal best of 7.57m in the same event and she won the gold medal.[5] At the 2019 World Championships held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, she finished in 4th place in this event with a distance of 7.79m.[6] [7] At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, she placed fifth in the women's shot put F40 event.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Athletics - ABDELLI Rima . Tokyo 2020 Paralympics . . 20 September 2021 . 20 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210920220707/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/athletics/athlete-profile-n1362092-abdelli-rima.htm . dead .
  2. Web site: Paralympic - ABDELLI Rima - Athletics - Tunisia . Rio2016.com . . 20 September 2021 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20161004131207/https://www.rio2016.com/en/paralympics/athlete/rima-abdelli . 4 October 2016.
  3. Web site: Rima Abdelli . paralympic.org . 26 December 2019 . International Paralympic Committee.
  4. Web site: Women's Shot Put - F40 Schedule & Results – Paralympic Athletics . Rio 2016 Paralympics . Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games . 11 September 2016 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160922202101/https://www.rio2016.com/en/paralympics/athletics-women-s-shot-put-f40-final . 22 September 2016.
  5. News: London 2017: Dimitrijevic breaks club throw world record . 17 July 2017 . paralympic.org . 2 January 2020.
  6. Web site: 2019 World Para Athletics Championships – Women's shot put F40 – Results . paralympic.org . 2 January 2020.
  7. Web site: Women's shot put F40 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20200823215435/https://www.paralympic.org/static/info/resATDU19/pdf/ATDU19/AT/ATDU19_AT_C73S_ATWS40100.pdf . 23 August 2020 . 23 August 2020 . 2019 World Para Athletics Championships.