Jean de Dieu Nkundabera is a Rwandan athlete who competes in paralympic athletics."The Greek gods would be pleased--the 2004 Summer Paralympics revisited", Palaestra, September 22, 2004
Nkundabera represented Rwanda at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, and won his country's first ever Paralympic or Olympic medal in any sport, by taking bronze in the T46 men's 800 metre race, with a time of 1:58.95."Paralympic results for 25 September", BBC, September 25, 2004 He represented Rwanda again at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing."Olympic team urged to fight for medals", The New Times, June 26, 2008"Nyirabarame qualifies for Beijing Olympics", The New Times, June 11, 2008
As of 2016, Nkundabera remains Rwanda's sole Olympic or Paralympic medalist of any kind, despite Rwanda having a population of over 300,000 people with some sort of disability.Disability in Rwanda
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