Dan Greaves (discus thrower)

Daniel Greaves (born 4 October 1982) is a British athlete who specialises in the discus throw.

Dan Greaves

Greaves in 2012
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Great Britain
Paralympic Games
	2004 Athens	Discus throw F44/46
	2000 Sydney	Discus throw F44/46
	2012 London	Discus throw F44
	2008 Beijing	Discus throw F44
	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Discus throw F44
	2020 Tokyo	Discus throw F64
World Championship
	2002 Lille	Discus throw F44
	2006 Assen	Discus throw F44
	2011 Christchurch	Discus throw F44
	2013 Lyon	Discus throw F44
	2023 Paris	Discus throw F64
European Championships
		2003 Assen
		2005 Espoo
	2014 Swansea	Discus throw F44
	2016 Grosseto	Discus throw F44-46
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
	2014 Glasgow	Discus throw F42/44

Career

Greaves was born in Anstey, Leicestershire in 1982.^[1]

Greaves won the gold medal in the F44/46 category discus throw at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, establishing a new world record with a throw of 55.12m.^[2] He had previously won silver at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney.^[3]

Despite being born with a deformity of the feet, Greaves was selected to join the British able-bodied team in a competition against the United States in 2001.^[3]

Greaves competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing,^[4] winning a bronze medal in the F44 discus throw.

He broke the world record again at the pre-IPC World Athletics Championships in New Zealand in January 2011, throwing 59.98m on his fourth throw.^[5][6]

At the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio, Brazil, he won the bronze medal in the F44 Discus Throw.^[7]

He won Bronze at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo. In doing so he became the first British track and field athlete to win medals at six consecutive Paralympic Games.^[8][9]

At the 2021 para-athletics European championships, Dan won the silver medal in the F64 Discus Throw.

At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Dan came 4th in the F42/44 Discus Throw.^[10]

At the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships, Dan won a bronze medal in the F44 Discus Throw.^[11]

Dan was selected to compete at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, aiming for his 7th Paralympic medal.^[12][13] He came 6th in the F64 Discus throw.^[14]