Hervé Paillet
French painter
Hervé Paillet (born 1968)[citation needed] is a French athlete[1] actor and painter born with atrophied legs. He is the fifth child of his family. His legs were amputated when he was three years old, and he uses a wheelchair. Eventually he learned to run with his arms and became a weightlifter. As a teenager he won a silver medal in weightlifting at the 1984 Summer Paralympics. He participated in two more Paralympic Games in 1992 and 1996 as a powerlifter. In both 1994 and 1995 he won a French weightlifting championship.
Paillet is married and he has two daughters.
References
- ^ https://www.paralympic.org/herve-paillet
External links
- Herve Paillet at the International Paralympic Committee
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