Records ^{as of May 2020}

F44 Discus ER - 63.01

Major Championships and International Record

2021 - Paralympic Games - DT BRONZE; European Para Championships - DT SILVER.
2018 - European Para Championships - DT GOLD.
2017 - World Para Championships - DT 4th.
2016 - Paralympic Games - DT BRONZE. IPC European Championship DT GOLD
2014 - Commonwealth Games - DT GOLD
2014 - IPC European Championship - DT GOLD
2013 - IPC World Championships - DT SILVER
2012 - Paralympic Games - DT SILVER
2011 - IPC World Championships - DT GOLD
2008 - Paralympic Games - DT BRONZE
2006 - IPC World Championships - DT GOLD
2005 - IPC European Championship - DT GOLD
2004 - Paralympic Games - DT GOLD
2002 - IPC World Championships - DT GOLD
2001 - IPC European Championship - DT GOLD
2000 - Paralympic Games - DT SILVER

Domestic Championships

2014 - English Championships - DT GOLD.
2012 - Aviva Olympic Trials & UK Championships DT gold
2009 - Aviva World Trials & UK Championships DT 4th.BUCS Championships DT 5th
2008 - BUSA Championships DT 5th.Aviva Olympic Trials & UK Championships DT 13th
2006 - BUSA Championships DT bronze. Norwich Union European Trials & UK Championships DT 13th
2005 - BUSA Championships DT bronze. AAA Championships DT 13th
2001 - AAA's U20 National Championship DT Silver

Dan is a full time athlete training at the high performance centre in Loughborough. His career at elite level has spanned 21 years only missing out on the podium twice in that time. Dan recently competed at his 6th Paralympics bringing home his 6th Medal making history as the first British Athletics to medal in 6 consecutive games.. Dan has also competed at 5 World championships and 7x European championships. Dan has experienced allot of high level sport and come through some tough injuries to win. In 2006 he retained his F44 discus World Champioinship title despite returning to throwing two weeks earlier following knee surgery. In 2019 Dan had a serious hip injury which almost halted his whole career but has managed to measure training capacity so he can train pain free and progress.

In 2001 he became the first Paralympian to represent GB in an able-bodied event when selected for GB Junior team. Dan has a Sports Science degree from Loughborough University and is studying for a Masters. Daniel was a keen sportsman at school. At 13 he got involved in Charnwood Athletics Club where he started throwing the discus. He is now a member of the Loughborough Students Athletics Club. He spent a couple of weeks on crutches with a knee injury just weeks before the 2006 World Championships, but still managed to retain the title he had won four years earlier in Lille. Beijing was the third successive Paralympics in which he won a medal in the discus, collecting bronze on this occasion after winning gold in 2004. In 2011 saw him win the gold medal with a life-time best throw at the IPC Championships in Christchurch, New Zealnd. Dan has gone on to become commonwealth champion and set his lifetime best of 63.01m at the English Championships in 2018