Sports & Movement - Portraits of Paralympic Athletes
Richard Booth’s evocative photography redefines traditional perceptions of disability, fitness and power. This fascinating selection of images was published in the award winning book ‘Power and Movement – Portraits of Britain’s Paralympic athletes’. Giving an insight into the skill, poise and strength of Paralympic athletes preparing for the challenge of London 2012.
Dan West - is a British Paralympian track and field athlete competing mainly in category F34 throwing events. He has represented Great Britain in four Paralympic Games and has qualified for the team for a fifth time at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. West has two bronze Paralympic medals and one silver, all in the shot put, and has medalled in the IPC World Championships and the Commonwealth Games.
Ali Jawad (born 12 January 1989) is a British Paralympic powerlifter competing in the −59 kg class. Born without legs, he took up powerlifting at the age of 16. He competed in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, finishing fourth. The following year he took gold at the Asian Open Championships making a world record lift of 185.5 kg. At the 2014 IPC Powerlifting World Championships in Dubai, he became World Champion in his class, setting another world record, lifting 190 kg
Josie Rachel Pearson MBE (born 3 January 1986) is a Paralympian wheelchair rugby player and athlete from England. Pearson represented Great Britain in the 2008 Summer Paralympics, becoming the first women to compete in wheelchair rugby for her country at the Paralympics. After competing as a sprint athlete, Pearson switched to throwing events and qualified for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in both discus and club throw in the F51 class, eventually taking the gold in discus with a world record distance.
Vicky Silk
Bethany Woodward - is a former British Paralympic athlete who competed in sprint events in T37 events. She competed at the highest level of her sport, representing England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and Great Britain in the IPC Athletic World Championships and the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
Wheelchair Basketball
"The Calm before the storm"
Kate Grey - Broadcaster, Mentor & Paralympian once upon a time
Dame Sarah Joanne Storey, DBE is a British road and track racing cyclist and former swimmer. She is a multiple gold medal winner at the Paralympic Games in both sports, and six times British (able-bodied) national track champion (2 × Pursuit, 1 × Points, 3 × Team Pursuit). Her total of fourteen gold medals makes her the most successful female British Paralympian of all time.
Storey's major achievements also include being a 29-time World champion (6 in swimming and 23 in cycling), a 21-time European champion (18 in swimming and 3 in cycling) and holding 75 world records
Danielle Brown MBE (born 10 April 1988[1]) is an English competitive archer. She has competed in the Paralympic Games winning gold medals in Beijing and London and has also won medals shooting in the able bodied category including the Commonwealth Games.
Deborah Kirsty "Debbie" Flood (born 27 February 1980) is an English female rower, noteworthy for winning Silver Medals in the Quadruple Sculls at both the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games.
In 2000 Flood won Gold in the Single Sculls at the World Under 23 Championships. At the 2006 World Championships, Flood originally finished in the silver medal position in the Quadruple Sculls, but was elevated to Gold after one of the Russian crew failed a drugs test.
Having taken a year off in 2009, Flood returned to take World Championships Gold again in 2010, in the quad sculls with Beth Rodford, Frances Houghton, and Annabel Vernon.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics Flood competed in the GB quad scull with Beth Rodford, Frances Houghton, and Melanie Wilson and finished in fifth place.
In December 2012 Flood was elected captain of Leander Club, the first time a woman had been appointed to this role in almost 200 years. Her predecessor as Captain was Richard Egington, a medallist with the GB men's eight at both the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics.
Jordanne Joyce Whiley MBE (born 11 June 1992) is a British wheelchair tennis player. Aged 14 she became Britain's youngest ever national women's singles champion in wheelchair tennis. She has osteogenesis imperfecta as does her father, Keith, who was also a Paralympian and won a bronze medal in 1984 in New York. Whiley was awarded the MBE in the 2015 Queens Birthday Honours list.
Sally Conway & Sarah Adlington
Sally Conway (born 1 February 1987) is a Scottish judoka who competed for Team GB in the 2012 and the 2016 Rio Olympics in the women's 70 kg judo event. Conway won a bronze medal in the 2016 Olympics. She competed for Scotland at women's 70 kg judo event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she won a bronze medal.
Conway started her career with a silver medal at the World Junior Championships in 2006. Won more than 7 national titles. The Scottish won gold at Grand Slam Baku in 2015 and GP Jeju. Grand Slam bronze in Paris in 2016 and gold in 2018. She won the Grand Prix in The Hague in 2018. Conway won more than 25 World Cup medals.
Sarah Adlington won four World Cups. More than 15 medals in total. She finished fifth at the 2018 World Championships in Baku. Multiple British Champion since 2007. Her highlight was the Commonwealth Games victory in 2014. She took a bronze medal at the Grand Prix in Cancun in 2017. She took a silver medal at the European Cup in Saarbrücken in 2017 and captured bronze at the Grand Prix in Tashkent in 2017. She captured bronze at the Grand Prix The Hague in 2017.
Sir David Lee Pearson, CBE (born 4 February 1974) is an 11-times paralympic games gold medallist having represented British para-equestrianism in Sydney, Athens, Beijing London and Rio. Over the course of his career he has won 30 gold medals at European, World and Paralympic level.
Josh Butler rowed in the Great Britain Lightweight Squad between 2012 and 2014. Today, he’s the head coach at Westminster School, where no fewer than 6 of his charges have progressed to the national team.
Tom Aggar (born 24 May 1984, London, England) is a British rower who competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.
Aggar went to the University of Warwick where he was a member of the rugby union 1st XV as well as the Saracens F.C. development squad. In 2005, whilst out with a group of friends, he slipped and fell eight feet on to a concrete path. Thinking that he had headed home alone, his friends left. When he regained consciousness two hours later, Aggar phoned for an ambulance. In his fall, he had broken his back and suffered a spinal injury, resulting in paralysis of his legs.
Tom Aggar - The Beijing 2008 Paralympic champion and Rio 2016 bronze-medallist is the longest-serving member of the GB para-rowing squad
Matt Skelhon is a British sport shooter. At the 2008 Summer Paralympics he won the gold medal in the SH1 10 metre prone air rifle event.
At London 2012, Matt was one of eight shooters to equal the world and Paralympic records with a score of 600 in the qualifying rounds of the R3 10m air rifle prone mixed SH1. In the final, he missed out on defending his title by just three-tenths to take the silver medal.
David Hill - David was born with no left forearm but was brought up to believe there was no such word as can't. Through hard work and passion, David went on to represent Great Britain at the highest level for 15years.
David is a 2 x Paralympian in Swimming & Triathlon, World & European Medallist, British Champion and was TeamGB's Youngest Athlete at the Athens 2004 Paralympics and Top 10 Finisher in the Rio de Janerio 2016 Paralympic Games
Liz Johnson - is a British swimmer who has won gold medals in the Paralympic Games and International Paralympic Committee (IPC) world championships. She has cerebral palsy - since retiring she has co-founded the recruitment agency The Ability People
Steve Brown is a television presenter, public speaker and athlete mentor as well as a former member and captain of the Great Britain wheelchair rugby squad.
