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If you lot convey 2 arms together with 2 legs, together with if your encephalon industrial plant normally, together with thence you're lucky! Officially, you're non i the disabled. However, if you lot convey all these abilities together with you lot didn't plough over whatever progress inward life -- believe me -- you lot demand to seriously reconsider yourself.
While there's a slap-up storey behind every athlete, Ibrahim Hamato's journeying every bit a tabular array lawn tennis thespian has been phenomenal.
Ibrahim Hamato was born inward 1973. He's an Egyptian para tabular array lawn tennis champion, winning several honors over the years, together with was a silvery medalist at the 2013 African Para Table Tennis Championships.
Egyptian tabular array lawn tennis fanatic Ibrahim Hamato lost both arms inward an accident when he was 10-years-old. Instead of giving upwards his favorite sport, he decided to bear on playing past times improvising amongst his mouth.
"I promise this shows people that naught is impossible every bit long every bit you lot operate hard," he said to BBC Sports.
He was invitee of accolade at the 2014 World Team Table Tennis Championships inward Tokyo, where he looked impressive inward rallies against some of the world's best players, including globe No. 2 Ma Long together with one-time champion Wang Hao.
His miracle led the Japanese authorities to pick out him every bit a representative for the "sports of tomorrow" organization that qualifies for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games together with he was invited to play an exhibition fit amongst the Japanese thespian Miu Hirano terminal March.
Worth noting is that Hamato played 2 matches inward the terminal Paralympics inward Rio together with lost them to British athlete David Wetherill together with to Deutschland thespian Thomas Rau.
Hamato may convey non won either fit he played inward the men's singles shape half dozen resultant inward Rio, but he says he earned his spot there. Among dozens of impressive feats from athletes amongst impairments at the Paralympics, his skills stand upwards out.
"I've gone from existence something alone for demo to somebody playing to win. It's non only for people to run across me together with go, 'Oh, that's good, that's nice.' I've won silvery medals at the Egyptian Open together with at the African championships. If mortal makes it to the Paralympics, they should nevertheless continue working difficult to brand the side past times side Paralympics together with to last a champion, together with non to larn backwards," he said.
He wants to last a rigid example to other people, particularly youngsters, who powerfulness convey to bargain amongst similar impairments. "That's my goal. Back inward Egypt, at that spot are a duet of small-scale boys similar me that I'm education to play my way."
According to Sky News, Hamato is the starting fourth dimension thespian inward the history of Paralympic sports to job tabular array lawn tennis using his mouth.
Here you lot tin spotter the armless tabular array lawn tennis superstar.
By Salwa Elzeny, Esraa Elzeny, Mohamed Mahmoud Elzeny
Korea.net Honorary reporters
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