"in the final. The 2008 gold medal winning BC1-2 team lost to Thailand in the semi-finals and went on to defeat Portugal in the bronze medal final. Great Britain named a 19-member cycling squad for the Games, made up of 15 riders and 4 pilots. The team included seven riders who won gold medals at the 2008 Games. British cyclists won a total of 22 medals, eight of which were gold, to finish top of the cycling medal table. This was two more medals than the team won in Beijing, although fewer gold medals were won. Sarah Storey won four"
"In 2012 at the London Paralympic Games she won 8 gold medals in the women's 100m backstroke S7, women's 50m butterfly S7, 100m freestyle S7, 400m freestyle S7, 50m freestyle S7, 200m individual medley SM7, 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 34 pts, and the 4 x 100m medleyrelay event. She broke Siobhan Paton's Australian record of six gold medals at a single Games by winning her seventh gold medal in the Women's 400 m Freestyle S7. In breaking the record she said ""Seven, I am in heaven"". She finished the Games with eight gold medals, more than any other"
"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"
"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"
"four Paralympics and swimmer Dave Roberts who took 11 gold medals over three Paralympics. Other Olympians of note include, Beijing 2008 Olympic Gold medalist and international champion cyclist Nicole Cooke (Road Race), who also won the 2006 and 2007 Grande Boucle – the women's Tour de France, and Geraint Thomas who won Gold(Team Pursuit) at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. He has also rode the Tour de France in 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013,2014 and 2015. Another cyclist Simon Richardson – double gold medallist at the 2008 Summer Paralympics (1 km and 3 km time trial). Swimmer David Davies was a Silver"
"In 2011, she was nominated for ""The Age""'s Sport Performer Award in the Performer with a Disability category. In August of the same year she was voted International Paralympic Committee Athlete of the Month after winning six gold medals in Edmonton. 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."" In November 2015, she was awarded Cosmopolitan Magazine's 2015 Sportswoman of the Year. Ellie Cole Ellie Victoria Cole, (born 12 December 1991) is an Australian Paralympic swimmer and wheelchair"
"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"
"who secured five in alpine skiing, and German Verena Bentele, with two in biathlon and three in cross-country skiing. Viviane Forest of Canada became the first Paralympian to win a gold medal in both the Winter and Summer Games when she won the women's downhill event for visually impaired athletes. She had previously won gold medals in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Paralympics for women's goalball. The ranking in this table is based on information provided by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and is consistent with IPC convention in its published medal tables. By default, the table is ordered by"
"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"
"Disabled Ski Team. This selection forced her to focus on swimming for her sporting career. She was an Australian Institute of Sport paralympic swimming scholarship holder from 2002 to 2011. She is currently a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. She won five silver medals, and one bronze at the 2004 Athens Games, after competing in the Women's 100 m Butterfly S13 event, the Women's 100 m Freestyle S13 event, the Women's 200 m Individual Medley SM13 event, the Women's 400 m Freestyle S13 event and the Women's 50 m Freestyle S13 event. At the same games, she won a"
"She was also the first woman to compete using a handbike, which required special permission for her to take part. Outside of sports, Schwaller works as an architect. Ursula Schwaller Ursula Schwaller (born 26 June 1976) is a Swiss para-cyclist, who won two bronze medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Ursula Schwaller was born on 26 June 1976. In 2002, she suffered an accident while mountain trekking causing her to suffer from paraplegia due to a spinal injury. She was already active in sports, but following the injury she decided to take up para-sports instead. For example, she took up"
"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"
"their event and to ""minimise any effect on [each Paralympian’s] Games preparation”. As such, the number of classifiers in the Australian Paralympic Committee, with the capacity to classify an athlete's impairment group, increased to 176 from 166 during 2011-2012. A cerebral palsy swimmer and the highest achieving individual athlete of the Games, winning eight gold medals. This is the most gold medals won by an Australian athlete at a single Paralympic Games. - Awards: Australian Paralympian of the Year 2012 and Australian Female Athlete of the Year. - The most successful individual medallist of any nation in London. - Ranked"
"course of her Paralympic career. As a result of her performance and the resulting media coverage during the London Paralympics, she became a trending topic on Twitter in Spain. Her six medals in a single Games tied Michael Phelps' record for the most ever won by an Olympian or Paralympian at a single Games. The total made swimming helped the largest medal sport for Spaniards at the 2012 Games, Spanish swimmers picking up eleven total medals in the pool compared to seven earned by Spanish cyclists. While in London in advance of the London Paralympics, Perales had the opportunity to"
"the fourth time. She won a gold medal in the singles class 5 and a bronze medal in the teams class 5 in the British Open in Sheffield in September 2011. Before the 2012 Summer Paralympics, Abuawad competed in the Slovenian Open for the second time and won two gold medals in the singles and teams competitions, both in class 5 and again, won another two gold medals in the French Open in Nantes. During 2013, she won six medals (four of which are gold) in three different locations: Abuawad won her third two sets of golds in the Al"
"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 their race. The fastest two riders were advanced to the gold medal final whilst the third and fourth fastest times raced it out for the bronze. The gold medal was"
"medals in the cross-country skiing events and 2 bronze medals in the biathlon events. She was awarded the IPC Athlete of the Month for April in 2011 due to consistent performances at the 2011 IPC Biathlon and Cross-Country Skiing World Championships as she claimed 7 medals in the World Championships. She was also qualified to compete at the 2014 Winter Paralympics which was held in Russia and claimed 6 medals in the Paralympic event including 2 gold, 1 silver medals in the biathlon events and 1 gold, 2 silver medals in the cross-country skiing events. Mikhalina Lysova was also the"
"Carol Cooke Carol Lynn Cooke, (born 6 August 1961) is a Canadian-born Australian cyclist, swimmer and rower. A keen swimmer, she was part of the Canadian national swimming team and was hoping to be selected for the 1980 Moscow Olympics before her country boycotted the games. She moved to Australia in 1994, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998, and took up rowing in 2006, in which she narrowly missed out on being part of the 2008 Beijing Paralympics. She then switched to cycling, where she won a gold medal at the 2012 London Paralympics and two gold medals at"
"of a second, and dislocating a kneecap only a week out from the Athens Paralympic Games. Macdougall has also been involved in swimming teaching. She has been a Victorian Institute of Sport scholarship holder since 2002. In 2010, she took up cycling in the C4 classification. After only three weeks of training, she won two gold medals at the Victorian Championships and four weeks later won two silver medals at the Australian Para Road Cycling Championships in the Women's Time Trial and Road Race. In 2011, won two bronze medals in the Women's Time Trial and Pursuit at the 2011"
"2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens. She is one of three people to have won the Best Female Athlete with a Disability ESPY Award more than once, winning again at the 2009 awards. Fellow swimmer Jessica Long has the most victories of any other sportswoman, collecting the award three times at the 2007, 2012 and 2013 awards with one further nomination at the 2009 ceremony, while cross-country skiier Oksana Masters has been nominated the most times (four) without winning. Swimmers have been successful at the awards with eight victories and three nominations, followed by paratriathles with two wins and six nominations."
"Paralympics, she was crowned early December as the Australian Paralympic Female Athlete of the Year, adding to her impressive list of accolades. Maddison Elliott Maddison Gae Elliott, (born 3 November 1998) is an Australian swimmer. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, she became the youngest Australian Paralympic medallist by winning bronze medals in the women's 400 m and 100 m freestyle S8 events. She then became the youngest Australian gold medallist when she was a member of the women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 34 points team. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she won three gold and two"
"a change was needed. She won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Games in the Women's 500 m Time Trial LC3-4/CP3 event. At the 2012 London Paralympics, she won a bronze medal in the 500 m Time Trial C1–3, and also participated in the Women's Road Race C1–3, Women's Time Trial C1–3, Women's Individual Pursuit C1–3 and Women's 500 m Time Trial C1–3 . At the 2014 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Aguascalientes, Mexico, she won gold medals in the Women's 3 km Individual Pursuit C1 and Women's 500 m Time Trial C1. Competing at the 2014 UCI"
"two gold medals at the World Cycling Championships. At the 2008 Beijing Games, she won a silver medal in the Women's Individual Pursuit B VI 1–3 event and a bronze medal in the Women's 1 km Time Trial B VI 1–3 event. She retired from Paralympic cycling after the Beijing games, and was named the Female Para-Cyclist of the Year for 2008 at the Cycling Australia Awards. She has been on five long-distance bike rides for charities, including one for Retina Australia from the Gold Coast to Sydney in September 2011. Returning to her first sport of triathlon, she was"
"August. The women's 3 km individual pursuit (C4) took place on 30 August. The women's 3 km individual pursuit (C5) took place on 30 August. Cycling at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Women's individual pursuit The women's individual pursuit events at the 2012 Summer Paralympics took place on 30 August – 2 September at London Velopark. Cyclists are given a classification depending on the type and extent of their disability. The classification system allows cyclists to compete against others with a similar level of function. The class number indicates the severity of impairment with ""1"" being most impaired. Pursuit cycling"
"C4. At the 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Montichiari, Italy, she won the bronze medal in the Women's 3 km Individual Pursuit C4. At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she competed in four events. Her best results were fourth in the Women's Road Time Trial C4 and seventh in the Women's Road Race C4-5. 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"
"at the end of the cycling leg but Alistair Brownlee broke away on the run to win the gold medal with Javier Gómez in second and Jonathan Brownlee in third. The women's race was held on 4 August 2012. A group of seven women finished the swim leg in a lead group. A large lead group of 22 athletes were together at the end of the cycling leg with a gap of over a minute and a half over the rest of the field. A group of five athletes formed on the running leg; Nicola Spirig, Lisa Nordén, Erin Densham,"
"the silver medal. Christiane Reppe Christiane Reppe (born August 21, 1987) is a German disability swimmer, and cyclist who has competed at three Summer Paralympics. To date her most successful Games was the 2004 Games in Athens where she won two bronze medals, in the 100m and 400m freestyle S9 events. As a handcyclist she is a two time UCI Para-cycling World Champion. Reppe was born in Dresden in 1987. In 1992 a tumor was discovered in her right leg. The resulting treatment saw her leg amputated. Reppe's first major international competition was the 2002 IPC Swimming World Championships in"
"said that she changed the future of Paralympic sport in Spain. Spanish female basketball star Laura Gil said if she were to have given the 2012 FIFA Balón de Oro to some one, she would have given it to Perales. In 2013, she was awarded the Grand Cross in the Royal Order of Sporting Merit, Spain's highest recognition to a sportsperson. Teresa Perales Teresa Perales Fernández (born 29 December 1975) is an S5, SB4, SM5 classified Spanish swimmer, politician and motivational speaker who has won a total of 26 Paralympic medals at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, 2004 Summer Paralympics, 2008"
"the third and fourth fastest times raced it out for the bronze. WR = World Record 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"
"the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to equestrianism. Natasha Baker Natasha Baker MBE (born 30 December 1989) is a British para-equestrian who won two gold medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, and 3 at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. Baker was born on 30 December 1989 in Hammersmith, London, England. At the age of 14 months she contracted transverse myelitis, an inflammation in her spine that affected her nerve endings. She was left with weakness and no feeling in her legs. Natasha Baker began riding horses as physiotherapists said it would help"
"a member of the team that the gold medal in the Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay 34 Points. In the lead up to the Games, Williams trained on the Gold Coast in Queensland at Pizzey Park where she was coached by Denis Cotterell. She was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in the 2014 Australia Day Honours ""for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."" Annabelle Williams Annabelle Williams, (born 21 July 1988) is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. She has a congenital limb deficiency. She appeared in ""Mad Max 4""."
"the 2012 London Games, she won a gold medal in the Women's 100 m Breaststroke SB13 after being the fastest qualifier for the event, and a bronze medal in the Women's 50 m Freestyle SB13. She also participated in the S13 class of the Women's 100 m Freestyle and 200 m Individual Medley. At the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, Glasgow, Scotland, she finished fifth in the Women's 50m Freestyle S13 and Women's 100m Breaststroke SB13, seventh in the Women's 100m Butterfly S13 and eighth in the Women's 100m Freestyle S13. At the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, she competed in"
"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"