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Great Britain's first Winter Paralympic gold was earned at the Sochi 2014 Games by Kelly Gallagher and guide Charlotte Evans in the Women's super-G visually impaired. Multiple athletes have won 4 medals at the Winter Paralympics for Great Britain, each in alpine skiing for blind or visually impaired athletes.
UK Sport set the team a target of winning between 100 and 140 medals at the event. [3] [4] The team was made up of athletes from the whole United Kingdom including Northern Ireland (whose people may elect to hold Irish citizenship and are able to be selected to represent either Great Britain or Ireland at the Paralympics). [5]
For other sports, please use an appropriate subcategory of Category:Paralympic competitors for Great Britain. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:British athletes . It includes British athletes that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
The athletes entering the stadium during the opening ceremony, led by flagbearer Peter Norfolk.. Despite the team being made up of athletes from the whole United Kingdom they compete under the name of Great Britain, a name first assigned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the 1908 Summer Olympics along with the IOC country code GBR, and later used by the International Paralympic ...
Kadeena Cox (born 10 March 1991) is a parasport athlete competing in T38 para-athletics sprint events and C4 para-cycling and British television presenter. [1] She was part of the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships and the 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, in which she won world titles in the T37 100m and C4 500m time trial respectively.
She represented Great Britain in the T12 100m and 200m at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, [3] winning a silver medal in the T12 100m race. [4] She won Gold in Rio at the 2016 Paralympic Games in 100m T11 [5] where she broke the world record and T11 200m, beating the previous Paralympic record in the process, thus making her a double Paralympic ...
UK Athletics and the body’s former head of sport have been charged with manslaughter over the death of a Paralympian who was hit on the head by a metal pole during training in 2017.. Abdullah ...
British athletes have competed at all sixteen consecutive Summer Paralympics since 1960. Sarah Storey , competing in her eighth Paralympics, won Great Britain's first gold medal of the Games, on the first day of competition, in the women's individual pursuit C5 cycling .