Ahmad Almutairi

Ahmad Almutairi (born 13 May 1994) is a Kuwaiti para-sport athlete who competes as a T33 classification track and field athlete and as a wheelchair basketball player, both at national level. Despite the fact that Almutairi held the Paralympic world record for his classification in the 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m events, major world titles eluded him because his classification was under-represented and he was forced to compete against less severely disabled athletes in the T44 class. He eventually won a gold medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Personal history Almutairi was born in Kuwait in 1994. At birth he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, which has resulted in Almutairi having very limited movement below the waist. Due to his cerebral palsy, Almutairi was educated at a school for special needs children. Later that year he represented Kuwait at his third World Championship, this time in Doha, Qatar. This time enough T33 athletes were available for Almutairi to race in his actual classification in a single race, the 100m. In the final he set a championship record of 17.53 to beat his nearest rival, Britain's Dan Bramall, by over a second and a half. Almutairi also competed in the 800m T34, but he finished a distant 8th.