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| Nationality | Belgian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1971-03-05)5 March 1971 (age 54) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Para-cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Wim Decleir (born 5 March 1971) is aParalympian sportsman fromBelgium. He competed inpara-cycling.
Decleir was born in Belgium in 1971. He was a promising football player for former Belgian first division club,K.R.C. Harelbeke.[1] After a motorcycle accident in 1989, his left leg was amputated in 1995. Soon after Decleir startedpowerlifting and in 2000 he switched tohandcycling.[1]
Decleir is married with two children and is a bank manager. In 2012, he made the national news headlines when his mistress was murdered by her husband.[2][3]
Decleir competed in theH4men's road race andtime trial at the2012 Summer Paralympics inLondon finishing 4th in the time trial and winning a bronze in the road race.[4] German athleteNorbert Mosandl, 2nd in the time trial, was banned one year later for two years after a positivedoping test forEPO.[5]
He won two bronze medals at theUCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in 2010 inBaie-Comeau, Canada[1] and a silver in the Road Race H4 at the 2011 World Championships inRoskilde, Denmark.[6]
He won theBerlin Marathon in 2005, 2006 and 2007[7][8][9] and theHamburg Marathon in 2006 and 2008.[10][11]
