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Mar/ Apr 2018
Millie Knight
Para Alpine Skier
Para alpine skiers Mille Knight will fly the flag for Great Britain at the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Paralympic Games having been selected to represent Paralympics GB in March.
“I’m so happy to be selected to compete at my second Winter Paralympic Games for Great Britain,” said Millie – who was the flagbearer for ParalympicsGB at the opening ceremony in the Fisht Olympic Stadium back in 2014. “Four years ago in Sochi was a really fantastic experience and I learned a lot, but competing in Pyeongchang has always been my main goal.
In Association of SportsAid.
Nov/ Dec 2017
Alex Knibbs
Hurdler
How did you first get involved in your sport?
I got involved within athletics through a primary school cross country event where I was scouted by my current coach to come down and join the club I compete for currently. This was when I was 8 years old. I did cross country as a younger athlete but on the track I did everything from 100m to 1500m and even field events such as long jump. I began 400m Hurdles between my transition from an u15 to an u17 where I thought I would try something different. Since this moment I have not looked back and my success as a 400m hurdler has grown massively every season since.
In Association of SportsAid.
Sept/ Oct 2017
Ellie Scotney
Boxer
Ellie, who boxes for Nemesis ABC having followed trainer Samm Mullins across from Lynn AC Boxing Club last year, overcame Chadwell St Mary’s Nina Hughes in the final at the Magna Centre in Rotherham. She’s been on ‘cloud nine’ since and has enjoyed celebrating with family, especially her nan, before turning her focus back to training and the upcoming GB Elite Three Nations in Cardiff. Her sporting hero is Ricky Hatton because she ‘loved the way he got stuck in from the first bell and his body shots were second to none’.
In Association of SportsAid.
May/ June 2017
Tom Derbyshire
SWIMMER
Back in July, former Royal Wolverhampton School pupil Tom twice took a trip to the podium at the European Junior Championships in Hungary, winning the 1500m freestyle and finishing in silver position in the 400m freestyle.
Stafford Apex Swimming Club’s Tom also won gold in the same events at the Energy Standard Cup in 2016.
In Association of SportsAid.
Jan/ Feb 2017
NIAMH EMERSON
HEPTATHLON
Niamh Emerson has developed a healthy habit of making and breaking records. The 17 year old recently returned home from the European Youth Athletics Championships where she amassed 5,919 points to take bronze in the heptathlon, eclipsing the total of 5,815 she produced the month before to set a new British youth record.
Niamh Emerson has developed a healthy habit of making and breaking records. And that’s not just her own personal bests. The 17 year old has recently returned home from the European Youth Athletics Championships in Tblisi where she amassed a total of 5,919 points to take bronze in the heptathlon. Not much more than a month before, Niamh had beaten the British youth heptathlon record previously held by Katarina Johnson-Thompson as she produced 5,815 points at the Meeting Internacional Arona Pruebas Combinadas in Tenerife.
In Association of SportsAid.
Nov/ Dec 2016
TIN TIN HO
TABLE TENNIS
It’s easy to forget table tennis star Tin-Tin Ho is just 17. Less than two years ago she burst onto the scene by winning a silver medal at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games in the mixed doubles, and earlier this month, she was crowned women’s national singles champion after performing a stunning comeback against Kelly Sibley live on ITV4. SportsAid athlete Tin-Tin, from Paddington in London, was born into the sport. (To read more go to the ‘Issue page’, Edition 26).
In Association of SportsAid.
Sept/ Oct 2016
COURTNEY TULLOCH
ARTIST GYMNAST
Still only 20 years of age, Courtney
is currently the Youth Olympic
Champion in Artistic Gymnastics
and The Albatross Group has been
proud to sponsor and support him
since 2010. He was on the Team
GB shortlist of 8 elite gymnasts to
travel to Brazil for the 2016 Olympics, was chosen to carry the Olympic Torch through Maidstone, his home town, in advance of the London 2012 Olympic Games. (To read more go to the ‘Issue page’, Edition 25).
In Association of SportsAid.
Jul/ Aug 2016
JESSICA STRETTON
ARCHER
Setting a new world record is an
incredible feat for any sportsperson,
and it’s often seen as the pinnacle
of their career. So, imagine the feeling
when SportsAid athlete Jessica Stretton
did just that at the age of 15 when
competing in the Fazza International
Para Archery Championship in Dubai!
(To read more go to the ‘Issue page’,
Edition 24).
In Association of SportsAid.
May/Jun 2016
MADI ROWLANDS
SKI AND SNOWBOARDER
Madi is 15, from Maidenstone…It’s been
a life-changing couple of weeks in the month of February for freestyle skier
Madi Rowlands after she made history
by becoming the first Team GB athlete
to ever win a medal on snow at the
Winter Youth Olympics. That moment
came when she took gold in the
women’s ski halfpipe on the third day
of the Games before following up and claiming bronze in the women’s ski slopestyle later that week. (To read more go to the ‘Issue page’, Edition 23).
In Association of SportsAid.
Mar/Apr 2016
LUCIE COLEBECK
TRAMPOLINE, TUMBLER
Lucie Colebeck, 19, has said
winning silver at the 2015
Trampoline, Tumbling World
Championships will always be
the ‘highlight of my career’
after overcoming a nine-month
mental block to produce the
double twisting double back
which securedher a place on
the medal podium in Denmark.
(To read more go to the ‘Issue
page’ Edition 22).
In Association of SportsAid.
Jan/Feb 2016
MUHAMMAD ALI
BOXER
“The bronze means everything to me,” says boxer Muhammad Ali, 18 from Keighley, who in August overcame injury to help Team GB to its best ever result at a Youth Olympic Games. His three-nil defeat of Indian flyweight Gaurav Solanki brought the team’s total to seven gold, six silver and 11 bronze medals – a record-breaking haul that prompted Lord Coe to describe Muhammad and his teammates as an “extraordinary generation of young talent”. (To read more go to the ‘Issue page’, Edition 21).
In Association of SportsAid.
December 2015
Shaun Burrows
PARA- SPRINTER
When Shaun Burrows crossed the line
to claim a bronze medal in the T38 400m
at the IPC World Championships in
Doha, not many would have believed it
was his senior debut for Great Britain
let alone only the fourth time he had
ever run that distance considering
the assured and confident nature
of his performance. (To read more go
to the ‘Issue page’, Edition 20).
In Association of SportsAid.
November 2015
DIMITRI COUTYA
WHEELCHAIR FENCING
Athlete Dimitri Coutya has his sights firmly
set on reaching the 2016 Paralympic
Games in Rio after winning a silver
medal at the International Wheelchair
and Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS)
Wheelchair Fencing World
Championships in September.
In Association of SportsAid.
October 2015
KATIE MATTS
SWIMMER
Swimmer Katie Matts thinks this could
be her breakthrough year after surprising
everyone in August by winning two
bronze medals at the FINA World Junior
Championships.The 17-year-old breaststroke
specialist says she didn’t even expect
to finish on the podium in her favoured
100m event in Singapore.
In Association of SportsAid.
September 2015
ESAH HAYAT
TENNIS PLAYER
Esah Hayat sees a bright future for
deaf tennisafter becoming the sport’s
very first world youth champion in July.
At 13 the SportsAid athlete,
who is supported by the GLL Sport
Foundation, was only just eligible to
enter the under-18 event in Nottingham.
In Association of SportsAid.
August 2015
BEN DIJKSTRA
TRIATHLON
Less than a year after winning two gold medals at the Youth Olympics in China, Leicestershire’s Ben Dijkstra proved again that he is one of British sport’s most exciting prospects in July by beating some of the world’s best junior triathletes at the European Championships.
In Association of SportsAid.
July 2015
MARCO PENGE
GOLFER
Seventeen-year-old golfer Marco
Penge from Horsham in West
Sussex says heis hungry
for more after a stellar victory
at the Scottish Open Stroke
Play Championship in June
which is widely seen as the
biggest win of his career.
In Association of SportsAid.
June 2015
LEAH WILLIAMSON
FOOTBALLER
In April Leah added the PFA Women’s
Young Player of the Year award to a
string of accolades that include
winning the FA WSL Continental
Cup Player of The Year Award in
2014 and being named, in January,
as the England Women’s Youth
Player of the Year by the national
coaching team.
In Association of SportsAid.
May 2015
EMMA ACHURCH
RACE WALKER
Emma Achurch is
looking to make her
mark on race walking
this year after a
string of podium
finishes that
have left her with
a senior national
title and a huge
new personal
best title.
In Association of SportsAid.
April 2015
LIOYD WALLACE
AERIAL SKIER
At the start of the aerial skiing season Lloyd Wallace had his sights set on the Europa Cup, the sport’s regional tour where his sister Elodie is currently the top-ranked British athlete, but by the end of it, he was competing with the world’s best in front of a crowd of a thousand fans in the final of the World Cup’s grand finale in Belarus, having just pulled off the best result by a British aerial skier in 20 years.
Two weeks later, back at the Europa Cup in Switzerland, Lloyd went on to win the first gold medal of his career in Airolo – the first by a British athlete in the history of the sport.
In Association of SportsAid.
March 2015
DAN ROPER
GOALBALLER
If you are looking for
an example of the
Paralympic legacy in
action you would
have to go a long way to
find a better one than
Dan Roper.
In Association of SportsAid.
February 2015
ADAM HAMES
BOBSLEIGHER
Adam Hames only did
his first bobsleigh run at
Bath University last
summer but just six months
later, at the sport’s inaugural
monon bob event in
Lillehammer, the
15-year-old from
Loughborough won his first
international medal.
In Association of SportsAid.
January 2015
MERCY BROWN
WEIGHT-LIFTER
At 18, Mercy Brown is still technically a junior in the sport of weightlifting, but at the European age-group championships in Cyprus in November the immensely talented young athlete from Newham in London set a new British record with a single lift.
In Association of SportsAid.
December 2014
EMMA WILSON
WINDSURFER
It is a remarkable fact in itself that 15-year-old Emma Wilson won windsurfing’s under-17 and under-19 world championship titles in the US in October but when you consider that she did so as one of the event’s youngest competitors, and by what British youth sailing team coach Leo McCallin has described as the widest margin he has ever seen in a competitive race, her achievement seems truly exceptional.
In Association of SportsAid.
November 2014
GREGG WARBURTON
WHEELCHAIR BASKETBALL
Just a year ago 17-year-old
Gregg Warburton from Leigh in
Lancashire said if he made the
team for the under-22 European
wheelchair basketball championships
in Spain, he didn’t just want to
make the podium but stand on
top of it as a gold medallist.
And so it proved, because
not only did Gregg win that gold
medal but did so as one of
the youngest players in the
tournament.
In Association of SportsAid.
October 2014
ABIGAIL STONES
TAEKWONDO
Fifteen-year-old Abigail Stones from Liverpool says “it feels amazing” to be able to call herself a world champion after helping Great Britain to its best ever result at the World Junior Taekwondo Championships in Taipei, it’s an amazing achievement.
In Association of SportsAid.
September 2014
TOBY GOLD
WHEELCHAIR RACER
Three years of wheelchair racing have taken this talented 19-year-old athlete from the school sports track to world number two in three T33 wheelchair racing events: the 100m, 200m and 400m. It has been an incredible rise for the teenager from Thames Ditton who this month surprised everyone, including himself, by breaking two 13-year-old European records on his international debut at the IWAS World Junior Games in Stoke Mandeville, the birthplace of Paralympic sport.
In Association of SportsAid.
August 2014
KYLE KOTHARI
DIVER
Glasgow may have been too soon for
Kyle Kothari but the16-year-old diver
says his recent European title gives
him the belief that by the time the Commonwealth Games reaches the
Gold Coast of
Australia in 2018 he will be
ready to follow the likes of Tom
Daley and Leon Taylor into the English
diving team.
In Association of SportsAid.
July 2014
FRANCESCA SUMMERS
MODERN PENTATHLON
Winning a world title is a dream come true for any athlete but for 18-year-old Francesca Summers it happened not once but twice in May in one of the most diverse of all Olympic sports.
The modern pentathlete from Dorking in Surrey was competing for Great Britain at back-to-back modern pentathlon world championships, the first in Hungary at the under-19 youth level and the next just a week later in Poland at the 19-to-21 junior event. It was a whirlwind experience, as Francesca explains.
In Association of SportsAid.
June 2014
HELEN HOUSBY
NETBALL
Netballer Helen Housby may have just booked her place at the Commonwealth Games this summer after a break-through year with Manchester Thunder that ended with the goal of a lifetime and her first call-up to the England squad. The goal came with just five seconds of the 2014 Superleague final left to play. Facing the previously undefeated Surrey Storm, the 19-year-old goal shooter netted a stunning long-ranger to win the national title by a single point. In Association of SportsAid.
May 2014
THOMAS HAMER
SWIMMER
This month Thomas Hamer from Rawtenstall in Lancashire became the first S14 swimmer to break the two-minute barrier in the 200m freestyle and should earn himself a European and world short-course record with the result.
In Association of SportsAid.
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