Solange Nyiraneza
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| Born | 28 June 1996 Ruhango, Rwanda | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Sitting volleyball | |||||||||||
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Solange Nyiraneza (born 28 June 1996) is a Rwandan sitting volleyball player who competes in sitting volleyball competitions. She competed at the 2016, 2020 and 2024 Summer Paralympics.[1]
Personal life
Nyiraneza's parents, who were mixed Hutu-Tutsi, were killed in a robbery when she was three months old, her older sister and brother looked after her. When Solange was aged five, she went to play outside with her brother then fell and broke her patella, she hid her injury for a week to avoid her sister getting angry at her. They took her to hospital to have bone density tests and it was later discovered that Nyiraneza had bone cancer, she had her left leg amputated below the hip.[2][3][4]
References
- ^ "Solange Nyiraneza - IPC Profile". International Paralympic Committee. 16 July 2025.
- ^ "Orphaned at three months, her leg amputated aged five, Nyiraneza owes everything to sitting volleyball". World Para Volley. 31 August 2024.
- ^ "Rwandan Paralympian Nyiraneza ready to fight for volleyball upset". insidethegames.biz. 2 September 2024. Archived from the original on 3 September 2024. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
- ^ "No obstacle too high for sitting volleyballer Nyiraneza". The Star. 2 September 2024.