Sentences with phrase «paralympic gold medallist»

Danielle Brown, MBE, double Paralympic gold medallist and 3 - time World Champion in archery, also on the Character Awards national judging panel commented:

And Whitehead, a three - time world champion in the T42 200m as well as a double Paralympic gold medallist over the distance, believes his role as a judge adds to the already grand excitement of this year's Championships.

• Olympic champion Dame Jessica Ennis - Hill and double Paralympic gold medallist Richard Whitehead MBE are ambassadors and part of the judging panel for entries

Paralympic gold medallist cyclist Mark Lee Colbourne MBE will be opening the event sharing his inspirational story and mesmerising for not only the kids but the adults too.

Britain's six - time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir contests five events in Rio and the wheelchair athlete remains on the hunt for a podium place after finishing just outside the medals as he defended his T54 1500m title.

The six - time Paralympic gold medallist says British wheelchair racing is looking good as he gets ready to race at his final Games

Six - time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir had been due to compete but he is a late withdrawal through injury.

Jenny Archer, the coach of six - time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir, is among those recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.

The six - time Paralympic gold medallist can't wait to get his season started but says he hopes he is competing on a level playing field after news of Polish wheelchair racer Tomasz Hamerlak's four - year doping ban

The six - time Paralympic gold medallist had planned to race in the USA after competing at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha

Six - time Paralympic gold medallist forms part of six - strong GB team to compete at London Marathon in April

Six - time Paralympic gold medallist says he'd like to race double world and Olympic champion as he helped launch new Kew Gardens junior wheelchair event

Also adding to Great Britain's medal haul on the third day of competition was European champion Jo Butterfield and six - time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir.

Among those competing will be six - time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir who hopes to become the first wheelchair racer in history to break the three - minute barrier for the mile at the London event.

Olympic champion Sanya Richards - Ross finished strongly to pull away on the home straight and clock 50.10 for 400m victory ahead of a fast - finishing Stephenie Ann McPherson — runner up in New York — with a 50.40 season's best, while earlier on six - time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir had been victorious over 1500m as he clocked 3:18.78 to finish ahead of Frenchman Julien Casoli.

Britain's six - time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir is set to go head - to - head with Marcel Hug over 1500m, the Swiss five - time world T54 champion having claimed victory over the same distance in Lausanne.

Britain's six - time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir goes up against local favourite Marcel Hug and USA's Joshua George over 3000m, while other British athletes competing in Zurich include Daniel Talbot in the 200m, Lynsey Sharp and Shelayna Oskan - Clarke in the 800m, Niall Flannery in the non-Diamond League 400m hurdles and Charlie Grice in the 1500m.

«I feel like I've got a new lease of life and more desire,» explains the six - time Paralympic gold medallist, who contests the inaugural Big Half, London's new half - marathon, on Sunday (March 4).

David Weir has posted an emotional message on Twitter in which the six - time Paralympic gold medallist apologised for what he described as a «terrible» performance at Rio 2016, adding that he felt like he had let his country and British team - mates down.

Fans and fellow athletes send messages of support after six - time Paralympic gold medallist Weir describes his performance at the Rio Paralympic Games as «terrible»

Six - time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir praises integration of IPC event into the Diamond League element of the London Anniversary Games

Britain's six - time Paralympic gold medallist David Weir has said this will be his last Paralympic Games and after finishing sixth in the 800m final he hinted that the two - lap event in Rio could have been his last individual track race too.

The six - time Paralympic gold medallist felt he had no choice but to retire from international athletics though is keen to help develop the next generation of wheelchair racers

The six - time Paralympic gold medallist hinted at further frustrations with national governing body British Athletics in a series of tweets

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The six - time Paralympic gold medallist will go up against athletes including fellow Britons Mickey Bushell, Simon Lawson and Sheikh Sheikh.

Not exact matches

The fashion brand's sponsored athletes include Gordon Reid — the reigning Wimbledon wheelchair tennis champion and a Rio 2016 Paralympic Games gold medallist.

The Briton went on to clock 24.51 ahead of China's four - time 2015 world gold medallist Cuiqing Liu with 24.85 and London 2012 T12 100m champion Zhou Guohua with a 24.99 PB for her second Paralympic gold after T12 100m silver medals at both Beijing 2008 and London 2012.

The Hereward participants were presented with their silver medals by the GB Paralympian and two - time Boccia gold medallist from both the Sydney 2000 and Beijing 2008 Paralympic games, Nigel Murray MBE.

They included Olympic sprint legend Darren Campbell MBE, Olympic 100m finalist Jeanette Kwakye, Commonwealth gold medal winning gymnast Craig Heap and World Championships silver medallist Paralympic swimmer Kate Grey.