Rok Petrovič's fund award for 2000

Born 22.02.1963
Domicile Velenje
Profession business information sciences
Disability paraplegia
Competition category F54 / P55
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Competition disciplines pentathlon, shot put,. discus
Best results 3rd place – pentathlon, World Championship, Birmingham, Great Britain, 1998
Best results at Paralympics IX. Paralympic Games, Barcelona, 1992
8th place – shot put (6.22 m
9th place – discus (20.88 m)
X., Paralympic Games, Atlanta, 1996
4th place –  pentathlon (4751 points)
Expectations “These are my third Paralympic Games, and I hope they will be the best so far. I would like to achieve my best results and improve those from the previous games.”

Results at XI. Paralympics

penthatlon 4619 points 5. place
discus throw 5. place
shot put 8. place

Janez has his own Home Page at: www2.arnes.si/~jhudej/slo/index.htm   E-mail: janez.hudej@guest.arnes.si

His coach: Martin Stepisnik

I was born on 21.08.1953 in Celje. My first contacts with the Athletics dates back into1969- and my discipline used to be high jump. My career ended early due to a severe knee injury.

After a long recovery period I started training shot put and discus throw and won Slovenian Cup for Seniors in 1988.

In 1983 after a course for a coach I successfully passed the exams and started working as a coach. Since then I've coached many Slovenian athletes..

Among others I coached our Ex -National Team member Natasa Erjavec; my son Alena, who was a Junior National Champion in 1993 and a member of our Junior National Team for several years. I coached Nina Podergajs, our National Champion in 1998 amongst the youngest athletes.

This year, however I started coaching Janez Hudej, our National Paralympic Team member - we're preparing for The Paralympic Games in Sydney.