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**John Petersson** President of European Paralympic Committee Member of International Paralympic Committee Member of the Danish Handicap-Federal Board of Directors Former elite swimmer and six double paralympisk Gold winner from 1984-2000

John Petersson (born 22 January 1970, Copenhagen, Denmark) is president of theEuropean Paralympic Committee and a former swimmer from Denmark.^[1] He is also one of the 12 members of theInternational Paralympic Committee^[2] and he has been a member of the Danish Handicap-Federal Board of Directors since 2000.^[3] Petersson is an accountant who studied atCopenhagen Business School.

Paralympics career

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John Petersson participated for the first time at the1984 Paralympic Games and ended his career at the2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney. It was during the games in 1988, that he by a journalist got nicknamed 'Piskeriset', which has kept by his side. John Petersson won a total of fifteen Paralympic medals in his career.