Dyan Buis
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| Full name | Dyan Neille Buis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 November 1990 Riversdale, Western Cape | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | sprint runner and long jumper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | T38 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best | 49.46 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Dyan Neille Buis (born 30 November 1990 in
Riversdale, Western Cape) is a South African Paralympic sprint runner and long jumper. He has mild cerebral palsy and competes in the T38 class.[1]
In 2012, Buis was a student at
2012 Paralympic Games
, where he won a bronze medal in the men's long jump with a world record time for his class of 6.48 metres. He also won a silver medal in the Men's 100m for his class.
In 2016, at the 2016 Paralympics, Buis ran a 54.66 in the second heat to qualify third for the finals behind Dixon de Jesus Hooker Velasquez and Weiner Javier Diaz Mosquera both from Colombia. In the Finals, Buis set a new personal best of 49.46 seconds and won Gold. The second place went to China's Jianwen Hu and third to Colombia's Weiner Javier Diaz Mosquera.[2]
References
- ^ Dyan Buis, IPC, retrieved 6 September 2012
- ^ Bernstein, Jenny, PARA-SA-LD-WRAP, archived from the original on 30 January 2013, retrieved 7 September 2012