Lara Baars

Lara Baars
Personal information
Born	23 December 1996 (age 27)
Sport
Country	Netherlands
Sport	Para-athletics
Disability	Achondroplasia (short stature)
Disability class	F40
Events	Discus throw; Shot put;
Medal record
Women's para-athletics
Representing Netherlands
Paralympic Games
World Championships
European Championships

Lara Baars (born 23 December 1996) is a Dutch Paralympic athlete competing in shot put and discus throw events.^[1] She was born with achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism. She won the gold medal in the women's shot put F40 event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics held in Paris, France.

Career

At the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, Qatar, Baars won the silver medal in the women's shot put F40 event.^[2]^[3]

Baars represented the Netherlands at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and she won the bronze medal in the women's shot put F40 event.^[4]

At the 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships in Berlin, Germany, Baars won the silver medal in the women's shot put F40 event and the bronze medal in the women's discus throw F41 event.^[5] The following year, she competed in the women's shot put F40 event at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates where she finished in 5th place with a new personal best of 7.47 m.^[6]

Baars won two medals at the 2021 World Para Athletics European Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland: she won silver in the shot put F40 event and bronze in the discus throw F41 event.^[7]

^ "Lara Baars". paralympic.org.
^ "Paralympiër Van Weeghel verovert derde medaille op WK". NU.nl (in Dutch). 27 October 2015.
^ "Kogelstootster Baars wint zilver op WK para-atletiek". NOS Sport (in Dutch). 27 October 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
^ "Brons voor zwemster Van der Kulk en kogelstootster Baars in Rio". NU.nl (in Dutch). 12 September 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
^ "Women's discus throw F41" (PDF). 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 July 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
^ "Women's shot put F40" (PDF). 2019 World Para Athletics Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 August 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ "Succesvolle Nederlandse ploeg wint 23 medailles op de EK Para Atletiek". Hardloopnetwerk (in Dutch). 3 June 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2021.

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