@DiscusDan

🇬🇧 Discus Thrower | Paralympic | World | European & Commonwealth Champion PB 63.01 | Instagram: @DiscusDan | Aston Villa Fan #AVFC

 loughborough
discusdan.co.uk
Joined December 2009
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Dan Greaves 🥏💨 retweeted
Daily Mail
@DailyMailMay 15
British discus champion outraged after Heathrow 'meet and greet' parking firm staff joyride her Ford Focus while she's abroad trib.al/fAqOKMn

Heathrow parking firm joyrides woman's car

Scottish discus thrower Kirsty Law, 39, was alarmed to discover her car was being driven, when she flew out to the United States for a competitive discus camp.

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Dan Greaves 🥏💨 retweeted
British Athletics@BritAthletics6 Oct 2025
The Novuna GB & NI Team delivered at the World Para Athletics Championships ✨ 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈 🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉 #NovunaGBNI #NewDelhi2025
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Dan Greaves 🥏💨 retweeted
British Athletics@BritAthletics3 Oct 2025
BRONZE IS THE COLOUR 🥉 Dan Greaves takes bronze in the men's F44 discus throw final with a throw of 52.42 metres 🤩 #NovunaGBNI #NewDelhi2025
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Dan Greaves 🥏💨 retweeted
AW
@AthleticsWeekly1 Apr 2025
"Coach the person and not the event." How former British international thrower Zane Duquemin is now guiding athletes at the Aspire Academy in Qatar 🇶🇦 🖊️ @katymaybarden athleticsweekly.com/performa…
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Dan Greaves 🥏💨 retweeted
British Athletics@BritAthletics8 Nov 2024
A cohort of 35 athletes have been offered membership to the Paralympic World Class Programme for 2024/25. Full details below 👇

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It’s time to act. Hundreds of British athletes can’t afford to continue their careers without a funding increase. Today, we’re calling on @DCMS to urgently invest and keep elite British sport accessible to people from every background. 🔗 bit.ly/3Yy9MOm
Text on a dark blue background over an image of Team GB athletes returning from Paris 2024. Text reads: 64% of British athletes may quit before LA 2028 without a funding increase. Source: 2024 BEAA survey of 189 funded athletes.

ALT Text on a dark blue background over an image of Team GB athletes returning from Paris 2024. Text reads: 64% of British athletes may quit before LA 2028 without a funding increase. Source: 2024 BEAA survey of 189 funded athletes.

Image of Hollie Pearne-Webb behind a dark blue background. White text reads: The need for increased grants is borne out of concern - not just for the top of British sport, but for its positive impact on our entire country.

ALT Image of Hollie Pearne-Webb behind a dark blue background. White text reads: The need for increased grants is borne out of concern - not just for the top of British sport, but for its positive impact on our entire country.

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Dan Greaves 🥏💨 retweeted
Aston Villa
@AstonVilla2 Oct 2024
"DO YOU WANT TO BET AGAINST US?"
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Dan Greaves 🥏💨 retweeted
ParalympicsGB@ParalympicsGB28 Aug 2024
Opening Ceremony: Ready to roll #ParalympicsGB | #YouGotThis
The ParalympicsGB team at the village ready to Parade with the word ParalympicsGB on a huge banner

ALT The ParalympicsGB team at the village ready to Parade with the word ParalympicsGB on a huge banner

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Dan Greaves 🥏💨 retweeted
Channel 4
@Channel411 Jul 2024
Watch the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games on @Channel4 from 28th August and see how the brutal forces of sport like gravity, time and friction don’t change for anyone #C4Paralympics #Paris2024 @paralympics @ParalympicsGB

Paralympics 2024 Trailer

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Helping to promote the support available to athletes leaving funded programmes, BEAA CEO Anna Watkins shared her own story with @pasport 🗣️ "You don’t have to do this on your own," she tells today's generation 🤝 #BEAAWithYou | @uk_sport | @UKSportsInst bit.ly/44acSJu
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Dan Greaves 🥏💨 retweeted
IanHodge8@ian_hodge88 Apr 2024
Replying to @DiscusDan
@DiscusDan who has won medals at the last SIX Olympics (Gold in 2004) has just thrown 58.88m out in Oklahoma to head the world rankings in his class.. remarkable commitment over the years
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Dan Greaves 🥏💨 retweeted
scottishathletics@scotathletics6 Apr 2024
SCOTTISH RECORD - OLYMPIC STANDARD #SALtogether WOW! Hear @DiscusNick 67.73m discus in 🇺🇸 Improves his own Record (65.00m) + @BritAthletics Paris standard Congrats ! @SALChiefExec @OvensDavid @Sam0kane @AliGrey73 @PdunnPaula @ianbeattie1 @BucknerJack @leslie_roy1 @ArnoldBlack1
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Introducing the Athlete Advisory Forum: 10 current or former elite athletes increasing the strength of the athlete voice 🗣️ Chaired by @HollieWebb1, the forum will review system-wide policies from an athlete perspective ✍️ Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/3Pxkcsz #BEAAWithYou
Behind a blue background the image shows 10 athletes: Hollie Pearne-Webb (Chair, hockey), Asha Philip (Vice Chair, athletics), Alice Davies (rowing), Dan Greaves (para-athletics), Brad Hall (bobsleigh), James Mazarelo (hockey), Seonaid McIntosh (shooting), Marcus Mepstead (fencing), Grace Reid (diving) and Kirstie Urwin (sailing).

ALT Behind a blue background the image shows 10 athletes: Hollie Pearne-Webb (Chair, hockey), Asha Philip (Vice Chair, athletics), Alice Davies (rowing), Dan Greaves (para-athletics), Brad Hall (bobsleigh), James Mazarelo (hockey), Seonaid McIntosh (shooting), Marcus Mepstead (fencing), Grace Reid (diving) and Kirstie Urwin (sailing).

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Dan Greaves 🥏💨 retweeted
Aston Villa
@AstonVilla24 Sep 2023
VICTORY AT STAMFORD BRIDGE! 😍 again.
Full-time: Chelsea 0 Aston Villa 1!

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Dan Greaves 🥏💨 retweeted
Trentvilla@Trentvilla18 Aug 2023
Replying to @DiscusDan
@DiscusDan @danbardell @TyroneMings @IanTaylor7 Guys please can you share this and help those attending on Sat know. Football should unite for things like this.
Ryan Turner@rdturner19897 Aug 2023
Please can we get this reposted. 🖤🤍💜💙#NUFC #AVFC
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Dan Greaves 🥏💨 retweeted
IanHodge8@ian_hodge82 Aug 2023
Fine discus throwing today at Birmingham- seasons bests for Scottish rec holder @DiscusNick 64.73m and 2004 Olympic para champ @DiscusDan 58.88
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Dan Greaves 🥏💨 retweeted
C4 Paralympics@C4Paralympics17 Jul 2023
This is what it's all about 👇
Dan Greaves 🥏💨@DiscusDan17 Jul 2023
World Champs 🥉 Thrilled to add a 5th global medal to my collection & add to the 🇬🇧 teams tally! 5️⃣7️⃣⏺️9️⃣2️⃣ was okay, but I know I had the capacity to throw further.. The most incredible thing was to share this moment with my children. 💕
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Dan Greaves 🥏💨 retweeted
IanHodge8@ian_hodge815 Jul 2023
Great to see six time Olympic medallist @DiscusDan back on the world champs podium tonight after a bronze in the F64 class with 57.92m, his first world medal in ten years -- (has won three golds in the past).
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Dan Greaves 🥏💨 retweeted
British Athletics@BritAthletics15 Jul 2023
Some things never change 🎆 Medal magnet @DiscusDan is on the podium again after taking bronze in the F64 discus 🥏 #PARIS2023 #WhereItStarts
Bronze medal graphic for Dan Greaves in the F64 discus with a image of him throwing at the UK Championships.

ALT Bronze medal graphic for Dan Greaves in the F64 discus with a image of him throwing at the UK Championships.

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Dan Greaves 🥏💨 retweeted
C4 Paralympics@C4Paralympics8 Jul 2023
That pre-championship feeling 😅 Set those alarm clocks, from 8AM tomorrow we've got live coverage of the @ParaAthletics World Championships in Paris on C4 Sport YouTube 🥇 #Paris23 | #ParaAthletics
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