A talented quartet of Wheelchair Fencers has been selected to compete for ParalympicsGB at Tokyo 2020. Piers Gilliver, who won a silver medal at Rio 2016 is joined by fellow Rio athlete Dimitri Coutya, Gemma Collis-McCann, who has experience of two Paralympic Games and Oliver Lam-Watson who will be attending his first Games. Piers’ success
ParalympicsGB has today announced three athletes who will represent Great Britain in Para taekwondo at this summer’s rescheduled Paralympic Games. Two-time world champion and world number one Amy Truesdale, reigning world champion Matt Bush and Beth Munro – who only began training full-time in the sport in 2019 – will all make their Paralympic debuts
ParalympicsGB has today announced four archers who have been selected to represent Great Britain at the rescheduled Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games this summer. Paralympic gold medallists Jess Stretton and John Stubbs are joined by Nathan Macqueen and Hazel Chaisty, who makes her Paralympic debut in Tokyo. The four athletes represent the second sport to be
A ground-breaking initiative to develop a digital and an Over-The-Top (OTT) broadcast platform for British Olympic and Paralympic sports has today been announced by a group of leading sports’ National Governing Bodies, UK Sport, the British Olympic Association and British Paralympic Association. In their first move, the collective of British sports’ bodies have appointed Dominic
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
Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic medalists received a heroes’ welcome on Wednesday when they celebrated their stunning summer of sporting success with students and staff at the University of Bath. Six Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes who train at the University’s world-class Sports Training Village – athletes Paul Blake, Emily Diamond and Eilidh Doyle plus
Paul Blake today joined the ranks of University of Bath-based athletes to be crowned as Paralympic Champion as he won the T36 400m title at Rio 2016 – ParalympicsGB’s 50th gold medal of the Games. Blake, coached by Rob Ellchuk at the Sports Training Village, upgraded on the silver he won at London 2012 in
On a day when the temperature soared in Rio, ParalympicsGB did not wilt in the heat and won six gold medals to draw level with the tally of 34 from London 2012. Away from the Olympic stadium Stephanie Millward finally won a Paralympic gold, taking the S8 100m backstroke title as Matt Wylie was also
Three golds in a night of shock and awe for ParalympicsGB swimming World records, gold medals, shock and awe – Sascha Kindred, Ellie Simmonds and Susie Rodgers wrote their name in British sporting history at the Paralympic Games. In the space of just 38 minutes, Kindred and Rodgers gave hope to all those who believe life can
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