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Joshua Cinnamo (born February 18, 1981), is an American Paralympic athlete. Cinnamo competes in the F46 classification, as described by the International Paralympic Committee and World Para Athletics.
Career
Cinnamo attended Luther College in Iowa where he competed on the football and track and field teams.
Josh Cinnamo has most recently competed in the 2023 edition of the World Para Athletics Championships in Paris, France. Cinnamo earned a silver medal with a throw of 16.00m. This is the second medal in as many chances at the World Championships.
In 2021, Cinnamo participated in the delayed, Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games where threw his way to the bronze medal. This was Cinnamo's first Paralympic Games. Here are results for Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's shot put.
Cinnamo has also competed at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships, in Dubai. There, he notably won the gold medal in the final of the Shot Put – F46 event with a world record throw of 16.80m. This was Cinnamo's first World Para Athletics medal after finishing fourth in the 2017 edition hosted in London, England.
Earlier in 2019, Cinnamo competed at the 2019 Parapan American Games in Lima, Peru. There he won a gold medal and set a new world record of 16.49m (previous mark 15.98m) in the Shot Put – F46 final; the first of two world record setting throws for the year.
Cinnamo has competed at the highest levels of adaptive athletics, including Crossfit, Strongman and powerlifting. As a member (and executive director) of Team Some Assembly Required, Cinnamo finished 2nd at the Arnold Sports Festival's World's Strongest Disabled Man.
References
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- Josh Cinnamo
- Athletics at the 2023 Parapan American Games
- 2023 World Para Athletics Championships – Men's shot put
- Athletics at the 2024 Summer Paralympics – Qualification
- List of IPC world records in athletics
- United States at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's shot put
- United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Athletics at the 2024 Summer Paralympics – Men's shot put
