
Jonnie PeacockJonathan Peacock, MBE is an English amputee and sprint runner. He won gold at the 2012 Paralympic Games in the T44 men’s 100 metres event.At the age of five, Jonnie contracted meningitis resulting in the disease killing the tissues of his right leg, which was then was amputated just below the knee. Wanting to play football, he was directed to a Paralympic sports talent day when he asked about disability sport at the hospital that fitted his prosthetic leg. Peacock refers to his stump as his ‘sausage leg’Hannah CockroftHannah Lucy Cockroft is a British wheelchair athlete specialising in sprint distances in the T34 classification. She holds the Paralympic and world records for both the 100 metres T34 and 200 metres T34. She won two Gold medals at the 2012 Paralympic Games. Hannah was born with Cerebral Palsy. Hannah attended a BPA talent day at Loughborough University in October 2007. It was there she was given her first opportunity to try an elite-racing chair by Dr Ian Thompson, husband of former wheelchair racer Tanni Grey-Thompson.Julie RogersJulie, 16 years old, was one of the youngest participants in the 2012 Summer Paralympics representing Great Britain in the sitting volleyball team. Since London 2012, Julie has changed her attention to athletics where she has become one of the fastest female Paralympic sprinters in the UK. In 2014, Rogers’ fastest time as a sprinter was 5th in the world rankings for that year. Julie is a T42 athlete (single leg amputee). Sophie was born with a congenital disorder and had an operation to shorten her leg at the age of five in order to be able to use an above-the-knee prosthetic limb.Ben RowlingsBen is 18 years old and has Spastic Diplega Cerebral Palsy, which affects all four of his limbs. He’s a wheelchair-racing athlete, competing in T34 class. Ben won a Bronze medal in the 2014 European Championships and is the current British record holder over 3 distances. Ben is part of the Team GB World Class Performance