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David Weir (athlete)
British wheelchair athlete
For other people with this name, see David Weir.
David Russell WeirCBE (born 5 June 1979) is a British Paralympicwheelchair athlete.
He has won a total of six gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Paralympic Games, and has won the London Marathon on eight occasions. He was born with a spinal cord transection that left him unable to use his legs.[1]
Personal life
Weir was born in Wallington, part of the London Borough of Sutton.[2] He cannot use his legs due to a congenitalspinal cord transection.[1] As a child he was a talented wheelchair athlete, representing Sutton in wheelchair athletics at the London Youth Games, and won the junior event at the London marathon (the mini wheelchair race) seven times.
At school Weir was frustrated by a lack of sporting activities for wheelchair users, but after years of persistence he developed a skill for wheelchair racing that would define his career and lead to
