Kyron Duke

Kyron Duke is a Welsh powerlifter and Paralympian track and field athlete, born on 12 October 1992 in Newport, south Wales, and now living in Pontnewydd near Cwmbran. He was born with achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism. He took up powerlifting at 12, became junior champion in the para sport in October 2009, and represented Wales in the bench press at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the elite athletes with a disability category. Alongside powerlifting he began competing in para athletics in 2009, in the F40 shot put and javelin, took gold in the javelin at the 2011 IWAS World Junior Championships, qualified for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in javelin and shot put, and won bronze in the F41 shot at the 2013 IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon.