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Marie-Line Pollet

Marie-Line Pollet at the Slovenia Open 2009
Sport
Country	Belgium
Sport	Paralympic athletics Paralympic table tennis
Disability	Paraplegia
Event(s)	Pentathlon Javelin throw Shot put Discus throw 100 meters 200 meters Table tennis
Medal record Representing  Belgium Paralympic Games Paralympic athletics 1984 Stoke Mandeville /New York Pentathlon 2 1984 Stoke Mandeville /New York Shot put 2 1988 Seoul Pentathlon 4 1984 Stoke Mandeville /New York Discus 2 1988 Seoul Discus 4 1988 Seoul 200 m 4 1988 Seoul Shot put 4 1988 Seoul 100 m 4 Paralympic table tennis 1996 Atlanta Single 3

Marie-Line Pollet is a Belgian former para-athlete, wheelchair racer and para table tennis player. Made paraplegic by polio since the age of 11 months old, she is a multiple Parasports Belgian, European, and World champion, a multiple Paralympic medalist who held multiple Parasports word records.

She is Belgium's most successful athlete at the Summer Paralympics, having won nine medals between 1984 and 1996. She started her Olympic career at the Paralympics in 1980 where she won no medals. In her second Paralympics in 1984, she was a gold medalist in the shot put (category 2) and pentathlon (category 2), and won a silver in the discus throw (category 2). 5 further medals followed in 1988, this time she won a gold medal in the pentathlon (category 4), two silver ones in the 200 m wheelchair racing (category 4) and discus throw (category 4), and 2 bronzes ones in the 100 m wheelchair racing (category 4) and shot put (category 4). Later on in her career, she switched to table tennis and won a bronze medal in that discipline (category 3) at the 1996 Summer Paralympics

References

1. "Marie-Line bat les hommes !". www.dhnet.be. 19 May 2010. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
2. "POLLET VERS UNE 9e MEDAILLE? OUBLIEE PAR SA PROVINCE". www.lesoir.be. 16 August 1996. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
3. "All-Time Paralympic Summer Games Multi-Medallists for Belgium". Retrieved 14 May 2024.

External links

• Marie-Line Pollet at ITTF Para Table Tennis
• Marie-Line Pollet at the International Paralympic Committee

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