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Sportsperson of the year with Disability 2022 Nominee

Shingo

Kunieda

Wheelchair Tennis
Japan
Japan
The host-nation hero, Shingo clinched the fourth Paralympic gold medal of his career as he defeated Tom Egberink of Netherlands in two sets in the men’s wheelchair tennis singles final in Tokyo. “It’s a dream because after Rio [2016] I had an injury and I thought many times of retiring,” he said. He did not drop a set in five matches as he became the first player to win three singles golds. He also won the doubles gold medal in Athens in 2004. Due to a tumour in his spinal cord, found when he was nine, he is paralysed in the lower half of his body. 
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Year
Result
Sportsperson of the year with Disability
2022
Nominee
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2010
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