"Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics Great Britain competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom, from 29 August to 9 September 2012 as the host nation. A total of 288 athletes were selected to compete along with 13 other team members such as sighted guides. The country finished third in the medals table, behind China and Russia, winning 120 medals in total; 34 gold, 43 silver and 43 bronze. Multiple medallists included cyclist Sarah Storey and wheelchair athlete David Weir, who won four gold medals each, and swimmer Stephanie Millward who won a total of five"
"Susan Powell (cyclist) Susan Powell, (born 30 May 1967) is an Australian cyclist. At the 2012 London Paralympics, she won a gold medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C4, setting a new world record in the process, and a silver medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C4. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, Powell won the silver medal in the 3 km Women's Individual Pursuit C4. Susan Jennifer Powell was born on 30 May 1967 in the New South Wales city of Nowra. In 2007, she had a spinal cord injury, which caused weakness in her right leg, due to a"
"her first international gold medal in front of a home crowd, beating four time world champion Marlou van Rhijn. Sophie Kamlish Sophie Kamlish (born 20 August 1996) is a British Paralympic athlete who competes in sprint events in T44 events. She represented Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and 2016 Summer Paralympics. Kamlish was born in Camden, London in 1996. She was born with a right foot that was severely turned in, for which a splint was fitted to straighten it. Despite this her right leg was significantly shorter than her left and when Kamlish was nine her doctors"
"Pam Relph Pamela Lillian Relph MBE (born 14 November 1989) is a British adaptive rower who won gold medals at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics, thus becoming the first double gold medallist in Paralympic rowing. Relph was born on 14 November 1989 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England. She attended John Colet School, in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, who have named one of their tutor houses after her. She attended the Welbeck Defence Sixth Form College on an Army scholarship and planned to join the Royal Engineers as an Engineering Officer. Her army career was ended by arthritis. She studied at the University"
"Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's team pursuit The women's cycling team pursuit at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held at the London Velopark on 3 and 4 August. The Great Britain team consisting of Dani King, Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell won the gold medal in world record-breaking time. Including pre-Olympic races and the Olympic final itself, in the six times they had ridden together they had broken the world record in every race. Sarah Hammer, Dotsie Bausch and Jennie Reed of the United States took the silver medal and Canada's Tara Whitten, Gillian Carleton"
"Paralympics in Beijing. She noticed that she had a similar disability to Storey and realised that she could classify as a Paralympic athlete. After a 2009 Great Britain campaign to find athletes for the 2012 Summer Paralympics, Lane applied and was accepted for trials. By December 2010 she was part of a three athletes selected as part of the GB Para-Cycling Team for 2011. Lane made her international debut in 2011 competing in the Road World Championships in Roskilde, Denmark. She finished 9th in the C5 Time Trial and took the bronze medal in the C5 road race, the gold"
"also the riders listed who competed during the Qualification and the First Round. Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's team pursuit The women's cycling team pursuit at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held at the London Velopark on 3 and 4 August. The Great Britain team consisting of Dani King, Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell won the gold medal in world record-breaking time. Including pre-Olympic races and the Olympic final itself, in the six times they had ridden together they had broken the world record in every race. Sarah Hammer, Dotsie Bausch and Jennie Reed of"
"Women's pairs 2-5, she teamed up with R. Thompson to win her final gold medal, beating a Maltese pair 13:9 then a British pair by an unrecorded score. Maughan was the final torch bearer, who lit the Paralympic Flame, opening the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Margaret Maughan Margaret Maughan (born 19 June 1928) is a British former competitive archer. She was Britain's first gold medallist at the Paralympic Games. She lit the cauldron at the Olympic Stadium (London) at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Maughan was paralysed from the waist down and left unable to walk"
"with a win in the points race. Storey qualified to join the England team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, where she was ""the first disabled cyclist to compete for England at the Commonwealth Games"", against non-disabled cyclists. She was also the second Paralympic athlete overall competing for England at the Games, following archer Danielle Brown earlier in Delhi. In 2011, Storey competed for one of the three places in the GB squad for the women's team pursuit at the 2012 Olympic Games. Although she was in the winning team for the World Cup event in Cali, Colombia in"
"second behind Anna Meares. She made her Australian national team debut at the 2011 Para-cycling Track World Championships with Felicity Johnson. She has said forming a friendship and real partnership was key for the pair's success. In 2012, she participated in the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles as the pilot for Johnson, and finished first in the B tandem 1 km time trial and the B Tandem sprint. At the 2012 London Paralympics, they won a gold medal in the Women's 1 km Time Trial B event, and were subsequently awarded the Medal of the Order of"
"December 2011, she was informed afterwards that she was being dropped from the team pursuit squad. London's 2012 Paralympics Games saw Storey win Britain's first gold medal, in the women's individual C5 pursuit. She went on to win three more gold medals, one in the Time Trial C4–5 500m, one in the Individual Road Time Trial C5 and finally one in the Individual Road Race C4–5. In 2014, Storey and her husband Barney Storey founded the Pearl Izumi Sports Tours International women's amateur cycling team, supporting the charity Boot Out Breast Cancer. The team fielded squads in the 2014 and"
"Karen Darke Karen Darke, , FRSGS (born 25 June 1971, in Halifax, Yorkshire) is a British paralympic cyclist, paratriathlete, adventurer and author. She competed at the 2012 London Paralympics winning a silver medal in the Women's road time trial H1-2. Darke is paralysed from the chest down following an accident, aged 21, whilst sea cliff climbing. In 2006, she took part in an expedition which crossed Greenland's ice cap whilst sitting on skis using her arms and poles to cover the 372-mile crossing. She has also climbed Mont Blanc, Matterhorn and El Capitan and hand-cycled, skied and swam the length"
"won the silver medal at the 2015 World Rowing Championships at Lac d'Aiguebelette in France, thus qualifying for the 2016 Paralympics. Rachel Morris (cyclist) Rachel Morris (born on 25 April 1979) is a British Paralympic sportswoman who has won Paralympic gold medals in both cycling and rowing. She took a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics as a handcyclist, and eight years later at Rio she won gold in the women's single sculls as a rower. She lost both her legs to Complex regional pain syndrome and cycles, in part, to manage the pain. She was born in Guildford,"
"the silver medal in the PT5 class behind Katie Kelly of Australia. Alison Patrick Alison Patrick (born 1 October 1987) is a British paratriathlete. She competed in the women's PT5 class at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and won a silver medal. Patrick was born in 1987 with albinism. She was blind at birth and gained some sight afterwards, but has never had full vision. Moreover, she suffers from nystagmus, which causes eye movement, and her albinism makes her, and particularly her eyes, sensitive to light. Patrick worked as a physiotherapist at Victoria Hospital in Dunfermline until she moved to Loughborough."
"Margaret Maughan Margaret Maughan (born 19 June 1928) is a British former competitive archer. She was Britain's first gold medallist at the Paralympic Games. She lit the cauldron at the Olympic Stadium (London) at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Maughan was paralysed from the waist down and left unable to walk by a road accident in Malawi in 1959. She returned to Britain and was treated at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where spinal injury unit founder Dr. Ludwig Guttmann pioneered the use of sport in therapy. There, she took up archery and joined an archery club. The hospital"
"Cycling at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Women's individual pursuit B The Women's Individual Pursuit B track cycling event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics took place on September 2 at London Velopark. This class was for blind and visually impaired cyclists riding with a sighted pilot. Eleven pairs from nine different nations competed. The competition began with five head to head races and one unpaired ride between the eleven riders. These races were held over a 3000m course and each rider was given a time for their race. The fastest two riders were advanced to the gold medal final whilst"
"cycling, buying a tricycle ""on a whim"", and won both the trial and road racing events at the 2011 Australian Para-Cycling Road Championships. She won gold medals in both the road race and road trial competitions at the 2011 Para-cycling Road World Cup in Australia, silver medals in the same events at that year's UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Denmark, and a gold medal at the 2012 London Paralympics in the Mixed Time Trial T1–2 event. Classified as a T2 cyclist, she is coached by Rebecca McConnell, receives a scholarship from the Victorian Institute of Sport, and is a"
"as they won their first gold medal. They also won their largest number of medals at a Winter Paralympics since 1984. On 9 March 2014 Jade Etherington, with guide Caroline Powell, won silver in the women's visually impaired downhill. On 10 March 2014, they won bronze in the women's visually impaired Super-G. In the same event, Kelly Gallagher and her guide Charlotte Evans won the gold medal, the first for Great Britain at a Winter Paralympics. On 12 March 2014 Jade Etherington and guide Caroline Powell won another silver in the Women's visually impaired slalom. They won a third silver"
"eventually won by Zeng Sini of China, while Simone Kennedy of Australia took the silver and Allison Jones of the United States took bronze. Official London 2012 Summer Paralympics Results Cycling at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Women's individual pursuit C1–3 The women's C1–3 individual pursuit event in cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics was held on 30 August at the London Velopark. Ten riders from eight different nations competed. The competition began with five head to head races between the ten riders. These races were held over a 3000 m course and each rider was given a time for"
"British woman. She added another bronze in the sprint relay. In 1995, she competed at her fourth World Championships in Gothenburg, reaching the semi-finals in the 200 metres. She earned selection for the 1996 Olympic Games, but was forced to withdraw due to illness. As of 2018, Dunn ranks 10th on the UK all-time list at 100 metres and 11th at 200 metres. Dunn began working for UK Athletics in 2001 and was appointed Paralympic performance manager in 2009. After London 2012, she was promoted to the position of Paralympic head coach, replacing Peter Eriksson. She is the first female"
"Australian Paralympian of the Year award She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2014 Australia Day Honours ""for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."" Felicity Johnson Felicity Jane Johnson (born 30 May 1971) is an Australian Paralympic tandem cyclist, who won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing and a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Felicity Jane Johnson was born on 30 May 1971 with a visual impairment. Her early sporting career was as a track and field athlete and she"
"Year Honours. Grace Clough Grace Elizabeth Sorrel Clough (born 21 June 1991) is a British Paralympic rower competing in the mixed coxed four event. She has won multiple gold medals at the World Rowing Championships and World Rowing Cup alongside a gold at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. Clough was inducted into the Sheffield Legends walk of fame in 2016 and named a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2017. Clough was born on 21 June 1991 in Sheffield, England. She was born with Erb's palsy and had multiple operations to repair nerve damage in her shoulders shortly"
"Also selected were Deborah Criddle, Sophie Christiansen, Sophie Wells and Natasha Baker. British riders won medals in every event winning five gold medals, five silver and one bronze. Sophie Christiansen won three gold medals, with two individual golds in the grade Ia championship and freestyle events in addition to the team gold. Natasha Baker won both the individual grade II events in her first appearance at the Paralympics. Lee Pearson, previously unbeaten in Paralympic competition, won silver and bronze in the grade Ib individual events as well as his tenth gold in the team event. 5-a-side football is for vision-impaired"
"On the first day of the 2016 Rio Paralympics, Giglia won the women's 3000 m individual pursuit (C3), Great Britain's first medal of the Games. Giglia was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to cycling. Megan Giglia Megan Giglia, (born 26 March 1985) is a British Paralympic track cyclist competing in C3 classification events. Giglia came to note as a cyclist during the 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships where she won gold medals in the Individual Pursuit and Time Trial events becoming double world champion and setting"
"Crystal Lane Crystal Lane (born 13 September 1985) is a British Paralympic track and road cyclist competing in C5 events. A bronze medallist in the Road World Championships in 2011, she competed for Great Britain team at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and 2016 Summer Paralympics. At the 2016 Games in Rio she took silver medal in the individual pursuit and bronze in the road race. Lane was born with an under-developed left arm and took up sport as a youth and was active in football, playing at county level. In 2008, she watched Sarah Storey compete at the 2008 Summer"
"Megan Giglia Megan Giglia, (born 26 March 1985) is a British Paralympic track cyclist competing in C3 classification events. Giglia came to note as a cyclist during the 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships where she won gold medals in the Individual Pursuit and Time Trial events becoming double world champion and setting new world records in both. Giglia was born in 1985 in Kent, England and spent her early life in Stratford-upon-Avon before moving to Manchester. In 2013 Giglia worked as a multi-sport coach, specialising in teaching rugby and gymnastics. After suffering from several fainting spells at work she"
"in Rio. In 2018 at the British Commonwealth Games, hosted at Gold Coast Australia, she was the commonwealth champion in the paratrialthon ,finishing in a time of 1 hour 11 minutes and 7 seconds. Jade Jones (wheelchair racer) Jade Jones-Hall, commonly referred to as Jade Jones (born 4 January 1996) is an English wheelchair racer, competing in T54 events, and a paratriathlete competing in handbike and wheelchair classifications. Jones competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the 400m, 800m and 1500m. In 2018, she won the gold medal in Paratriathlon at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Jones was born in Middlesbrough,"
"It was only the second time that a country had won gold medals across so many sports matching the achievement of China in 2008. Dame Sarah Storey DBE, the track and road cyclist, and Wheelchair Basketball player Simon Munn participated at their seventh Paralympic Games. Storey celebrated this achievement by becoming Great Britain’s most successful female paralympian. The youngest athlete on the team was thirteen-year-old swimmer Abby Kane. Anne Dunham MBE was the oldest member of the team at 67, bringing four Games worth of experience to a team of equestrian riders. Both athletes won medals during 11 days of"
"Sophie Wells, in the team championship. She won her third medal of the 2012 Paralympics, a silver, in the freestyle grade III, on 4 September. Criddle was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to equestrianism. Deborah Criddle Deborah Criddle MBE (born on 10 May 1966) is a British para-equestrian who won three gold medals at the 2004 Summer Paralympics and three medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Criddle was born on 10 May 1966 in Taunton, Somerset, England. She lost the use of her right arm and right"
"Sophie Wells Sophie Wells MBE (born on 5 May 1990) is a British para-equestrian who won three medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, and also a gold at Rio 2016 Summer Paralympics Wells was born on 5 May 1990 in Lincoln, England. She was born with amniotic band syndrome and as a result she has no feeling or movement in her feet and has lost a number of fingers. Because of her disability she competes in the grade IV Paralympic classification, the classification for riders with the highest level of physical ability. Wells took up riding at the age of"
"Alexandra Lisney Alexandra Lisney (née Green; born 2 July 1987) is an Australian rower and cyclist. She won a bronze medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit C4 at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. She represented Australian at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. Green was born ten weeks premature on 2 July 1987 in Sydney, Australia. She has cerebral palsy that affects the left side of her body. , she lives in Sydney, Australia and was a student at the University of New South Wales, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering. She is employed as a structural engineer. She was"
"Deborah Criddle Deborah Criddle MBE (born on 10 May 1966) is a British para-equestrian who won three gold medals at the 2004 Summer Paralympics and three medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Criddle was born on 10 May 1966 in Taunton, Somerset, England. She lost the use of her right arm and right leg following a motorcycle accident in 1985, eventually having the arm amputated in 2003. As a result, she competes in the grade III Paralympic classification. Criddle first competed at the Paralympics at the 2000 Games held in Sydney, where she finished eighth in the individual grade III"
"have done they were able to bring it home strongly."" Thornhill reunited with James to compete in the 2014 British National Track Championships in September, where they won the mixed time trial and the 200-metre flying start time trial for blind and visually impaired riders. Sophie Thornhill Sophie Thornhill, (born 9 February 1996) is a vision impaired English racing cyclist who competes in para-cycling tandem track events. She is a double world champion, with pilot Rachel James, and a double Commonwealth gold medallist, with pilot Helen Scott, in the tandem sprint and 1 km time trial events. In April 2014,"