Arnaud Assoumani

[1] Arnaud Assoumani is a French athlete from Comorian origins, born without a lower left arm on 4 September 1985 at Orsay, near Paris.

He represented France in the long jump, F46 category, at the 2008 Paralympics Summer Games where he received a gold with a new world record of 7.23 meters.

He tried to compete at the 2012 London Olympic Summer games as a regular competitor, but withdrew following an accident that hurts his Achilles tendon.

Arnaud Assoumani studied at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris where he earned a BTS in film cutting and post production in 2006 at EICAR.

He was selected to participate at the 2016 Rio Summer Paralympic games at the Palmarès France room athleticism championship (valids).