José Manuel Fernández, a Paralympic athlete that is not detained by distances

José Manuel Fernández Barranquero started running to improve his school grades and ended up participating in two Paralympic Games. José Manuel, who suffers from a brachial palsy in his right arm, competed in Atlanta and Sidney, where he won a bronze medal in 800 meters and a silver one in 4×400. Then, he left the top-level competition, but never sport. Some years later, he returned to competition with duathlon, a sport in which he has been proclaimed medium distance Spanish champion of in 2017.

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