Weeghel won the 200m at the European Championships in 2001. This was his first main title and there were many to come. In 2002 he became World Champion by winning the 100m and a year later he won both the 100m and 200m during the World Championships. At the European Championships that same year (2003) he won the 200m and 400m. At the
2004 Summer Paralympics in
Athens, he won his first three
Paralympic medals: bronze on the 100m, silver on the 200m and gold on the 400m. He was elected Dutch handicapped sportsman of the year. In 2005 the
World Championships in Athletics were held in
Helsinki and T54
wheelchair racing was added to the program as an exhibition event. In both the 100m and 200m he won the silver medal behind British athlete
David Weir. In 2006, in
Assen in
the Netherlands, he became once more World Champion 200m, while taking second place (by a mere 0.01 s) on the 100 m behind
David Weir. Van Weeghel won a silver medal at the
Paralympic Games in 2012 in London (400m) and won two Paralympic medals at the
Rio de Janeiro Paralympic games in 2016; gold for the 400m and bronze for the 100m. ==Personal records==