Yassine Gharbi

Yassine Gharbi (born 23 March 1990) is a Paralympic athlete from Tunisia competing in T54 class wheelchair racing.

In 2016 Gharbi was selected to represent Tunisia at his first Summer Paralympics, held in Rio de Janeiro.

In his first race, the 400 m (T54), he posted a time of 47.07 to claim the bronze medal, his first major international podium finish.

Gharbi failed to get through to the final for the 1500m and in the 800m, despite initially finishing second behind Switzerland's Marcel Hug, he was later disqualified and did not medal.

[4] The following year at the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships in London, Gharbi announced his arrival as a major competitor in his class by winning medals in all four of his events.