i picks out 15 British athletes who all have medal potential in Paris
medals are getting harder to win and Great Britain will call on a panoply of talent in order to do so.
Wheelchair racing has been dominated by Hannah Cockroft and David Weir in the last decade but now it’s time to get to know Kinghorn, an athlete who has all of the tools to use Paris to become a household name. The Welsh star struggled in Tokyo, finishing fifth after bronze in Rio, and could not be better placed to ensure her third Paralympic experience is the best yet.Bethell comes from a multi-sport background that included tries at tennis, football and cricket, but everyone in the badminton world is delighted that he chose their sport.
The 37-year-old has shown remarkable resilience to make it to Paris and continue to stay at the very top of her game.Unwin had just been made redundant from her supermarket job when she took her chances on a British Cycling talent day in August 2020 – less than a year later she had two Paralympic medals to her name.
With a brilliant new rowing partner in former Commando Gregg Stevenson and now a mother to newborn son Noah, Rowles has no shortage of motivation to make history.Summers-Newton has dealt remarkably well with being installed as one of the faces of British swimming as a teenager. Truesdale has a point to prove after settling for bronze at the first edition of Paralympic taekwondo in Tokyo and it seems will shake on nothing less than gold at the second.In early 2023, Gilliver was lying in a darkened room for weeks on end battling vicious symptoms of concussion having sustained a serious blow to the head in training.
In 2023, he won five Grand Slam titles across singles and doubles and became the first wheelchair player to be named Player of the Year by the British Tennis Journalists’ Association.Ellis will finally be looking to break his Paralympic curse at Paris 2024 after a bike chain failure ended his dreams of gold three years ago.
Ellard equalled the S14 200m freestyle world record on the final night of the Aquatics GB Swimming Championships before setting a new standard in the S14 100m freestyle at the Citi Para Swimming World Series in Berlin and heads into Paris in blazing form.Nathan Macqueen previously competed at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020
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