Menna Fitzpatrick and her guide Jennifer Kehoe won a superb silver in the women’s VI giant slalom to take the ParalympicsGB medal tally to a fantastic five. There are some days when everything comes together and, for Fitzpatrick and Kehoe, Day Five of the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games was one of them. The duo
Menna Fitzpatrick revealed a unique way of coping with the pressure after winning women’s VI super-combined silver at PyeongChang 2018 with guide Jennifer Kehoe. The duo had already won super-G bronze on Sunday and they produced two brilliant runs to add a silver medal to their collection at the Jeongseon Alpine Centre on Tuesday. And,
Six athletes and a coach will travel to PyeongChang 2018 to experience the Paralympic Inspiration Programme (PiP) thanks to the continued partnership between the British Paralympic Association (BPA) and Help for Heroes. Five military athletes will join the Programme which is formed of six athletes across five Paralympic sports; Para alpine skiing, Para Nordic skiing,
University of Bath graduate Kelly Gallagher, who made history at Sochi 2014, has secured her place in the ParalympicsGB team for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Paralympic Games. Gallagher became the first British athlete to win a gold medal on snow in either Olympic or Paralympic competition when she topped the podium in the women’s super-G
The British Paralympic Association (BPA) has today announced the five wheelchair curlers selected to represent ParalympicsGB at the PyeongChang 2018 Paralympic Winter Games. Four of the team that claimed bronze at Sochi 2014 are returning to the Paralympic stage with skip Aileen Neilson contesting her third Games, Gregor Ewan and Robert McPherson making their second
The British Paralympic Association (BPA) has today added the first names to the team-sheet for PyeongChang 2018, announcing seven athletes and two guides who will represent ParalympicsGB in para alpine skiing and para snowboard. Aiming to better ParalympicsGB’s historic achievements in Sochi, the skiers have shown their potential this cycle with a number of World
The British Paralympic Association (BPA) today announced the appointment of Dee Paterson as a Non-Executive Director following a highly competitive recruitment process. Paterson will join existing Non-Executive Directors Emma Boggis and Greg Nugent, who took up their position in 2013 and have now been re-appointed for a second four-year term. The role of the Non-Executive
ParalympicsGB Chef de Mission for 2018 announced as Penny Briscoe Penny Briscoe appointed Chef de Mission for third consecutive Paralympic Games Senior leadership team also confirmed for 2018 BPA will run two-strand senior leadership team led by Chef de Mission and Secretary General Penny Briscoe OBE has been announced as the Chef de Mission for
ParalympicsGB celebrates Paralympic Nominees for BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2016 Following an historic Rio Games for the ParalympicsGB team, it today congratulated the three Paralympic athletes shortlisted for this year’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year award; Sophie Christiansen OBE, Kadeena Cox and Dame Sarah Storey. The three athletes are emblematic of ParalympicsGB’s
ParalympicsGB to return from Rio 2016 with third highest medal haul in British Paralympic history ParalympicsGB will return from Rio with 64 gold medals – the most gold medals and indeed most medals of any British Paralympic team since Seoul 1988 – and won 12% of all gold medals awarded at the Games, which is the best performance
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