Hannah Cockroft

Hannah Lucy Cockroft MBE is a British wheelchair athlete specialising in sprint distances in the T34160classification. She holds the Paralympic and world records for both the 100 metres T34 and 200 metres T34 . Competing for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, she won two gold medals.

Cockroft was born onJuly 1992 in Halifax, West Yorkshire with cerebral palsy. She suffered two cardiac arrests at birth that damaged two different parts of her brain. She was left with a disability that affected her balance and mobility, problems with her fine motor skills, weak hips and deformed feet and legs. Her parents were told that she would never be able to walk, talk, do anything for herself or live past her teenage years.

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