Denis Kučera – Slovakia
Denis Kučera – Slovakia.
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Denis Kučera is a street workout athlete and content creator on social media. In 2005 he was diagnosed with the cancer non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and ended up in a wheelchair within a few years due to chemotherapy side effects. Despite this, he has attended two universities in parallel since 2011. In 2015 he was awarded a Master’s degree in European studies and public administration from the College of International and Public Relations Prague. After that, he fell in love with street workout and started shooting his videos. He debuted his first street workout video in 2016, which was bought by Jukin media and used in an internet campaign for the upcoming movie Stronger. He went on to start a YouTube channel in 2019 together with his fiancé, to show people that even with a disability you can live your life to the fullest. The main topics on the channel are about how to live with a disability, intimacy in a wheelchair, and having fun as a couple. He and his fiancé are currently working on the small social media and video creation company they founded in 2021.