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In her elegant evening dress and perfectly styled hair and make-up, Maria Diaz looks like any beauty pageant contestant - except for the wheelchair she has been confined to since being shot by a stranger ten years ago.

Maria is one of 24 young women who gathered in Warsaw on Saturday to compete for the first-ever title of Miss Wheelchair World.
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"It doesn't matter who wins the crown. We are all winners," said the 28-year-old from Chile, who is a professional wheelchair tennis player. Aleksandra Chichikova wins first wheelchair
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"It's our first opportunity of its kind to show the world that we can do anything we want," she added.

Belarussian psychology and social pedagogy student Aleksandra Chichikova won the crown at a gala evening in the Polish capital.


Source: Naijcrackgist