Tofiri Kibuuka
| Medal record | ||
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| Paralympic athletics | ||
Representing  Norway
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| Paralympic Games | ||
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1984 Stoke Mandeville / New York | 800m |
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1984 Stoke Mandeville / New York | 1,500m |
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1984 Stoke Mandeville / New York | 5,000m |
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1988 Seoul | 5,000m |
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1992 Barcelona | Marathon |
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1988 Seoul | 1,500m |
Tofiri Kibuuka is a Norwegian athlete. Ugandan by birth, he competed for Uganda before obtaining Norwegian citizenship. He has participated in both the Winter Paralympic Games, in cross-country skiing (for Uganda) and in the Summer Paralympic Games, in mid- and long distance running (for Norway). Active from 1976 to 2000, he won five Paralympic silver medals, and one bronze.
He holds the distinction of being the first African to have competed at the Winter Paralympics, and more generally the only athlete from a tropical nation to have done so. He is also one of only two Africans to have competed at the Winter Games, the other being Bruce Warner of South Africa (since 1998).
Kibuuka studied at the Outward Bound School in Kenya.
In 1968, he was one of the first blind people to ascend successfully to the peak of Mount Kilimanjaro, earning media attention as well as praise from the Ugandan Minister of Labour. Due to this event, he was invited to Norway by an "organisation promoting sports for the disabled". He arrived in Norway in 1972, a year after Idi Amin's rise to power in Uganda. Due to the situation in his country of origin, he was to remain in Norway permanently, but nonetheless competed for Uganda in the 1970s.
Kibuuka made his Paralympic Games début representing Uganda at the inaugural Winter Paralympics in 1976 in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. He was his country's sole representative, and, as Uganda was the only African country to compete, he was the first African to take part in the Winter Paralympic Games – eight years before Lamine Guèye of Senegal became the first African to compete at the Winter Olympics.
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