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of six metres did not merit him automatic qualification and trained for four hours per day for three mornings per week with an $ 8,000 budget in the run-up to the Games. Santerre is a F58 classified athletes competing in a wheelchair as those with one leg are considered suitable for the category. He
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Charles and Fabiola Sénord and two other officials; all six departed for Rio de Janeiro on 31 August. Only one para-athlete was sent because Haiti did not have the required funding for more than one competitor in the Paralympics and not taking part in Rio de Janeiro would have
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after being unable to qualify on merit. He was chosen as the flag bearer for the
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athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories;
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206:. Santerre did not start the final of the
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758:Mansfield, Roddy (31 August 2012).
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453:"Haiti at the Rio 2016 Paralympics"
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644:"A-Z of Paralympic classification"
581:"Paralympics categories explained"
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434:Haiti at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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709:(in French). 14 September 2016.
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611:"Making sense of the categories"
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733:"Santerre, Jean Indris"
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799:. 17 September 2016.
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