Hania Aidi

Personal information

Native name

هنية العايدي

Born

10 December 1977 (age 39)
Sfax, Tunisia

Years active

2004–present

Height

160 cm (63 in)

Sport

Disability

Spinal Cord Injury

Disability class

F54

Club

Tunisian Federation of Sports for the Disabled, Sfax, TUN

Coached by

Mohamed Ali Ben Zina

Medal record

Hania Aidi

Medal record

Paralympic athletics
Representing Tunisia
Paralympic Games
	2008 Beijing	Javelin Throw – F54-46
	2012 London	Javelin Throw – F54-56
	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Javelin Throw – F54
World Championships
	2011 Christchurch	Javelin F54-56
	2013 Lyon	Javelin F54-56
	2015 Doha	Javelin F54
	2013 Lyon	Shot Put F54
African Games
	2015 Brazzaville	Javelin F54/56

Hania Aidi (Arabic: هنية العايدي‎‎) (born 10 December 1977) is a Paralympian athlete from Tunisia competing mainly in category F54 javelin throw events. Aidi has competed at four consecutive Summer Paralympics, winning silver medals at three of the Games. She is also a three time World Championships winner medalist and has held the F54 javelin world record on numerous occasions throughout her career.

Aidi was born in Sfax, Tunisia in 1977. She was born able bodied, but suffered permanent spinal injuries after a medical error.

Aidi took up athletics at the age of 26, after she became disabled. Her international debut was at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece where she represented her country in all three throwing events available to her classification; the F54–55 discus throw, javelin throw and shot put. She failed to progress into the final eight for the shot put and discus, but her distance of 12.22 metres in the javelin saw her acquire enough points to finish just outside the podium positions in fourth.

Two years after Athens, Aidi competed at her first IPC Athletics World Championships. Held in Assen, the 2006 Championships allowed Aidi a chance to compete against the best athletes in the world outside the Paralympics. She competed in two events, the shot put (T54) and the javelin throw (F54-56). She finished fourth in both. Her first international medals were won at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. In the shot put she threw 6.81 to finish fourth, but success followed in the javelin where her third round throw of 16.83 not only gave her the silver medal but also set a new world record in the F54 category.

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