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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.
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 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] Additionally some British overseas territories compete separately from Britain in Paralympic competition.
In 2012, Craig MacLean, a British track cyclist and Olympic silver medalist was the sighted pilot for Anthony Kappes as they won gold in the 2012 Paralympic Games. For the first time in those games, the sighted guides of blind athletes were also awarded medals, and MacLean, although not himself disabled, became only the second athlete to win ...
The first Paralympic Games took place in 1960, 66 years after the maiden modern summer Olympics. The British Paralympic Association was founded in 1989 and has overseen Games participation ever since.
The British women's basketball team have qualified for Tokyo 2020 Paralympics after the women's team won the silver medal in the 2019 European Wheelchair Basketball Championships. [25] [26] Men's squad. The following is the Great Britain roster in the men's wheelchair basketball tournament of the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [27]
The 20-year-old said he told the head of Paralympics GB that he thought it was "disrespectful" having Paralympic athletes go to Buckingham Palace in a tracksuit "making us stand out and feel ...
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