Lauren Steadman

Lauren Steadman
Personal information
Nationality British
Born Peterborough, England
Sport
Sport Swimming
Club Portsmouth Northsea
Portsmouth Athletics Club
Medal record
Swimming
Competitor for  Great Britain
IPC World Championships (SC)
2009 Rio de Janeiro 4x100m freestyle relay 34pts
IPC European Championships
2009 Reykjavik 400 m freestyle SB9

Lauren Steadman is a Paralympic athlete.[1] who competed in the 2008 Beijing[2] and 2012 London[3] Paralympic Games. She won medals in 2009 and in 2011 at the IPC European championships, and in 2013[4] and 2014[5] at the European Championships Paratriathlon. In 2014 she won the London World Series Paratriathlon,[6] gained a first class degree in Psychology[7] and became the World Champion Paratriathlete in Edmonton, Canada.

Paratriathlon[8] will become an Olympic sport at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.[9]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.paralympic.org/classification
  2. ↑ http://www.mountkelly.com/History-and-records
  3. ↑ http://www.podium.ac.uk/news/view/801/university-of-portsmouth-student-selected-for-london-2012-paralympic-games
  4. ↑ http://www.paralympic.org/news/germany-great-britain-dominate-para-triathlon-euros
  5. ↑ http://www.paralympic.org/news/2014-para-triathlon-european-championships-review
  6. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/disability-sport/27647872
  7. ↑ http://www.lauren-steadman.com/
  8. ↑ http://www.paralympic.org/news/update-rio-2016-medals-programme-para-triathlon-and-para-canoe
  9. ↑ http://www.rio2016.org.br/en

External links

See also

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, August 29, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.