Jean-Babtiste Alaize
Jean-Baptiste Alaize (born 10 May 1991) is a French athlete with an amputated tibia, who specialises in sprint and long jump. He represented France at the 2016 Paralympic Games. Alaize was born in Burundi, in 1991, just days before the Burundian Civil War broke out. At three years old, the conflict required one of his legs to be amputated. He arrived in France 12 July 1998, to receive a prosthesis and remained in Montpellier. He runs with this carbon prosthesis specially designed for handisport. He entered INSEP in 2010 . He is a member of the 'Lollipop suckers' club, a group of more than 90 famous elite created by Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organization placed under the High Patronage of H.S.H Prince Albert II. This group of top level champions, wish to make sport a tool for dialogue and social cohesion. http://www.peace-sport.org/our-champions-of-peace/ Alaize has been long jump world champion four times, for athletes under 23 years. He joined the Elite French Team for the first time in January 2011 during the Handisport World Championship, at Christchurch (New Zealand), when he achieved a sixth place in long jump and eighth place in 200m sprint. Source: Article "Jean-Baptiste Alaize" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
- Título: Jean-Babtiste Alaize
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- Cumpleaños: 1991-05-10
- Lugar de nacimiento: Muyinga, Burundi
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