Tryputs at the 2016 Paralympics
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Born | 21 May 1982 (age 34) |
Height | 188 cm (6 ft 2 in) |
Weight | 96 kg (212 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Paralympic athletics |
Disability class | F12, F54 |
Event(s) | Javelin throw, pentathlon |
Coached by | Valery Orlov (2006–) Sergey Gribanov (2013–) |
Aliaksandr Tryputs (Belarusian: Аляксандар Трыпуць, born 21 May 1982) is a wheelchair athlete from Belarus who specializes in throwing events. He competed at the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2016 Paralympics and won four medals: a gold, a silver and a bronze in the javelin throw (2004, 2000 and 2016, respectively) and a silver in the pentathlon in 2004. He placed fourth in the pentathlon in 2000 and fifth in the javelin in 2008. He served as the flag bearer for Belarus at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Parade of Nations.
Tryputs took up athletics in 1994 in Grodno.