Tanni grey thompson autobiography

  • Here she talks candidly about her early life and ambitions, before offering a colourful account of her success in the four Paralympic Games in which she has.
  • Tanni talks incisively about disability sporting issues and reveals how she set about becoming a world-class athlete.
  • Seize the day: my autobiography.

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    More Power to Her Elbow?

    In your autobiography, Seize the Day,1Seize the Day: My autobiography (Hodder & Stoughton)  you wrote: ‘For me, disability has not been about overcoming things. That is why inom find it hard to understand when people say I’m a role model.’ It seemed to me, as I read about (for example) the metal rod that was put in your spine, that you have overcome adversity. Isn’t that, in part, what makes Paralympic athletes seem so special to many people? Or is that a misapprehension?

    No, because some of them have had to deal with a huge amount of adversity. You know, I grew up in a middle-class family, with a dad who was an architect in a well-paid job, a full-time mum and a brilliant older sister. I had a good education, and supportive parents, and we had two cars and we went on nice holidays – there’s no adversity in that. And there’s no adversity in me wanting to be an athlete and training hard and it happening. Most athletes don’t get to do one

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    Seize the Day: My Autobiography

    Tanni Grey-Thompson has performed at world-class level for the past thirteen years, in distances ranging from m to the marathon. Her 13 Paralympic medals, eight medal placings in the London Marathon and her comprehensive set of British and World Records make her achievements second to none in the disability sport arena. Here she talks candidly about her early life and ambitions, before offering a colourful account of her success in the fyra Paralympic Games in which she has been involved. Tanni talks incisively about disability sporting issues and reveals how she set about becoming a world-class athlete.

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    Tanni Grey-Thompson

    Welsh wheelchair racer and parliamentarian (born )

    Carys Davina Grey-Thompson, Baroness Grey-Thompson,[2] (née Grey; born 26 July ), known as Tanni Grey-Thompson, is a Welsh life peeress, television presenter and former wheelchair racer.

    Athletic career

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    Grey-Thompson started wheelchair racing at the age of 13 and made her Paralympic debut for Wales at 15, in the m at the Junior National Games in [3] She followed this up by winning the National Junior title in her last year as a junior. [4]

    Her international career began at the age of 19 in in Seoul, where she won a bronze medal in the m. As a young athlete she also competed in wheelchair basketball. Her fifth and last Paralympic Games were in Athens () where she won two gold medals in wheelchair racing in the m and m.[5] In total in her Paralympic career she won 16 medals (11 gold, four silver and a bronze)[5] and also 13 World Championship med

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