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Loughborough eight in Beijing for Paralympic Games
Posted on 28/12/2008
Loughborough eight in Beijing for Paralympic Games
Eight Loughborough students, graduates and University-based athletes will represent Britain in three different sports at the Beijing Paralympics starting this weekend (6 September).
Discus thrower Dan Greaves heads a list of six University-based athletes, while student Hannah Stodel competes in the Three-Person Keelboat (Sonar) and graduate Clare Strange is part of a British team in the wheelchair basketball.
In athletics Greaves is joined by fellow Paralympic champion Kenny Churchill as well as triple Paralympian Dan West and female throwers Sophie Hancock, Gemma Prescott and Claire Williams, all of whom train at Loughborough University’s world class athletics facility.
The eight are part of a 206-strong British squad competing at the Beijing Paralympic Games which open on September 6 and close on September 17. Paralympic supporters can keep up with all the action at the Beijing Games online and on the BBC this September.
The International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) internet channel ParalympicSport.TV will broadcast at least eight hours of live action each day to include coverage of athletics and wheelchair basketball, as well as a series of magazine programmes.
BBC are providing six hours of coverage every day on BBC interactive as well as a daily round-up show from 7-8pm on weekdays and at varying times over the weekend.
A detailed schedule of the live online coverage is available on www.paralympic.org while the BBC schedule is posted at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/disability_sport/6412941.stm
Loughborough-based athletes: Kenny Churchill (Athletics - F37 Javelin) Daniel Greaves (Athletics - F44 Discus) Sophie Hancock (Athletics - F40 Shot) Gemma Prescott (Athletics - F32 Shot) Hannah Stodel (Sailing Sonar) Clare Strange (Wheelchair Basketball) Dan West (Athletics - F34 Discus & Shot) Claire Williams (Athletics - F12 Discus)