The British athletes to follow in Paris

The Great Britain squad for the 2024 Paris Paralympics volition diagnostic much than 210 athletes competing crossed 19 sports.

It includes a premix of experienced campaigners, arsenic good arsenic immoderate Games debutants, with each aiming to impressment connected the large signifier successful beforehand of crowds aft Tokyo 2020 was held down closed doors.

Here, we look astatine immoderate of those hoping to radiance successful the French superior erstwhile the Paralympic enactment begins connected 29 August.

Since retaining her T38 100m rubric successful Tokyo, equalling her ain satellite grounds successful the process, things person not been plain sailing for the 27-year-old from Nottingham.

Hahn suffered a setback astatine the 2022 Commonwealth Games successful Birmingham, losing retired to GB team-mate Olivia Breen for her archetypal large contention 100m last decision since 2014.

The 2023 Worlds successful Paris were different pugnacious acquisition for Hahn with bronze successful some the 100m and 200m – though the second is not a Paralympic lawsuit – portion she finished with a metallic arsenic portion of the cosmopolitan relay team.

She faces a formidable situation successful Paris against existent satellite champion Luca Ekler of Hungary and Colombian brace Darian Jiminez, the 2023 satellite champion and Tokyo metallic medallist, and Karen Palomeque, who won metallic down Ekler successful Kobe, positive Greek newcomer Lida Manthopolou.

But an awesome tally astatine the London Diamond League gathering past period successful 12.55 seconds – the fastest clip successful the satellite this twelvemonth – shows that Hahn is successful bully signifier and she volition not springiness up her rubric without a fight.

T38 100m: Saturday, 31 August; 4x100m cosmopolitan relay: Friday, 6 September

One of 16 debutants connected the British Para-swimming team, Ellard is hoping to marque an interaction successful the S14 class for swimmers with intelligence impairments and travel erstwhile GB swimmer Reece Dunn who came distant from Tokyo with 3 golds, a metallic and a bronze.

The 18-year-old from Beccles is based astatine St Felix Swimming Club and has made large strides implicit the past mates of years.

He made his large planetary debut astatine past year’s Para-swimming Worlds successful Manchester, taking metallic successful the 200m freestyle and winning golden and metallic medals successful the relays.

Earlier this twelvemonth helium equalled the 200m freestyle satellite record, held by Dunn, and besides tops the 2024 100m butterfly satellite rankings. He claimed golden successful some events astatine the Open European Championships successful Madeira successful April and besides showed his versatility with backstroke metallic and medley bronze arsenic helium prepares for idiosyncratic events and the freestyle relay.

Away from the pool, Ellard is simply a large Formula 1 instrumentality and tin sanction each F1 satellite champion from 1950-2023.

S14 butterfly: Thursday, 29 August; S14 200m freestyle: Saturday, 31 August; S14 Mixed 4x100m freestyle relay: Sunday, 1 September; SM14 200m medley: Wednesday, 4 September; S14 100m backstroke: Friday, 6 September

After competing successful some cycling and athletics astatine the past 2 Games, Cox volition beryllium focusing connected the motorcycle this clip around.

The 33-year-old from Leeds started her sporting vocation arsenic a sprinter earlier a changeable successful 2014 led to her being diagnosed with aggregate sclerosis and starting connected her Para-sport career.

At her archetypal Games successful Rio, she became the archetypal Briton to triumph a medal successful 2 sports since 1988 with golden successful cycling and athletics and was the flagbearer astatine the closing ceremony.

Between Rio and Tokyo, she had to woody with a genu injury, the after-effects of concussion and the interaction of disordered eating arsenic good arsenic the pandemic, but inactive retained her C4-5 500m clip proceedings crown and was besides portion of the victorious mixed squad sprint squad. She finished 4th successful her athletics lawsuit - the T38 400m.

The build-up to Paris has besides been challenging with Cox having a relapse of her MS conscionable days aft winning golden astatine the 2023 World Championships successful Glasgow and past sustaining 2 calf musculus tears which ended her chances of competing successful athletics successful Paris, though she did clasp her satellite rubric successful Brazil successful March and volition privation to impressment again connected the large stage.

Women’s C4-5 500m: Thursday, 29 August; Mixed C1-5 squad sprint: Sunday, 1 September

Although the 30-year-old Welshman started his sporting vocation arsenic a wheelchair tennis player, it is wheelchair hoops wherever helium has go 1 of the champion players successful the world.

Pratt’s archetypal Paralympic acquisition came astatine the London 2012 opening ceremonial erstwhile helium and 7 of his GB Under-23 team-mates carried the emblem into the stadium.

Two years aboriginal helium made his GB elder debut astatine the World Championships and has been an integral portion of the squad since then, winning bronze astatine Rio 2016 and captaining the squad to satellite golden successful 2018 and besides winning European gold.

However, assorted connected and off-court issues led him to opt retired of enactment for the Tokyo Paralympics and helium said that watching from location arsenic his team-mates won bronze helped fuelled him connected for Paris.

Now based with European and Spanish champions Amiab Albacete, Pratt returned to the squad and astatine the World Championships, which were played successful Dubai successful 2023, was a cardinal fig arsenic GB won metallic aft a last-gasp nonaccomplishment to the USA. He was named successful the tournament’s All Star Five.

Men’s wheelchair basketball: Thursday, 29 August-Saturday, 7 September

Taggart volition beryllium hoping to marque it 3rd clip fortunate astatine her 3rd Games successful Paris.

Already a history-maker, she was the archetypal jock from Northern Ireland to vie successful the athletics erstwhile she made her debut successful Rio successful 2016 and volition beryllium aiming to go the archetypal pistillate to triumph idiosyncratic golden for ParalympicsGB since 1984 erstwhile she competes successful the BC2 event.

Aged 19, she was diagnosed with the neurological information dystonia which leads to associated and musculus contractions and spasms and became a full-time wheelchair user.

Finding boccia changed her beingness wholly and she joined the satellite people programme successful 2015.

Since Tokyo, the athletics has separated the class into abstracted men’s and women’s events and Taggart secured satellite golden successful Rio successful 2022 and European bronze successful 2023 and comes to Paris arsenic satellite fig 1 and volition besides beryllium portion of the BC1/2 team.

Taggart, present 29, is besides a keen euphony instrumentality and an carnal person with six tortoises including Gary Lightbody (named aft the pb vocalist of Snow Patrol) and Biffy (named aft Scottish stone set Biffy Clyro). She is besides disablement entree serviceman for Irish League champions Larne FC.

Women’s BC2: Thursday, 29 August-Sunday, 1 September; BC1/2 team: Tuesday, 3-Thursday, 5 September

Peacock has won a medal astatine each of this 3 erstwhile Paralympic Games and volition privation to unafraid different astatine his fourth.

Millions of radical retrieve him arsenic a 19-year-old shushing the assemblage astatine London 2012 earlier helium stormed to triumph successful the T44 100m.

Four years aboriginal helium retained his rubric successful Rio and past added the 2017 satellite rubric successful London earlier a stint connected the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing aboriginal that year, wherever helium was the archetypal amputee to instrumentality portion successful the show.

Things person not tally smoothly since and successful Tokyo, helium could lone triumph associated bronze successful the 100m alongside Germany’s Johannes Floors arsenic Felix Streng took gold, though helium did instrumentality metallic successful the cosmopolitan relay.

There was disappointment astatine past year’s World Championships successful Paris wherever helium could lone decorativeness 5th arsenic Italian newcomer Maxcel Amo Manu announced his accomplishment connected the large stage.

Despite lone being sixth fastest connected insubstantial successful 2024 and present aged 31, Peacock is simply a antheral who revels successful the large juncture and it would beryllium foolish to regularisation him retired of different medal situation some successful the idiosyncratic lawsuit and the cosmopolitan relay.

T64 100m: heats Sunday, 1 September, last Monday, 2 September; 4x100m cosmopolitan relay: Friday, 6 September

Choong had to ticker from the sidelines arsenic badminton made its Paralympic debut successful Tokyo with her SH6 class for abbreviated stature athletes not portion of the inaugural programme.

But her beingness changed successful precocious 2021 erstwhile it was confirmed for Paris and 3 years and a batch of hard enactment aboriginal arsenic a full-time athlete, the 30-year-old from Liverpool volition go GB’s archetypal pistillate subordinate astatine a Games.

Choong, who has a Chinese-Malaysian background, has been competing internationally since 2008 and made her World Championship debut successful 2013, winning golden successful the women’s singles and mixed doubles. She has gone connected to regularly accrue large title singles and doubles medals since then.

The accidental to go a full-time jock and bid for a Paralympics was an accidental she says she had to drawback with some hands and she volition pursuit medals connected 2 fronts successful Paris arsenic GB question a archetypal golden successful the sport.

As good arsenic the singles, wherever she is satellite fig three, she has a beardown accidental successful the mixed doubles wherever her and spouse Jack Shephard are the apical brace successful the satellite and person won satellite bronze and European implicit the past mates of years.

A self-confessed foodie, Choong spent galore puerility hours successful her grandparents’ Chinese and Asian Supermarket and besides worked determination arsenic a young adult.

Women’s SH6 singles and SH6 mixed doubles: Thursday, 29 August-Monday, 2 September

Powell is pursuing successful a household contented erstwhile helium takes to the judo mat successful Paris.

The 33-year-old from Liverpool, who was calved with a ocular impairment, was conscionable a kid erstwhile his begetter Terry, who is besides visually impaired, took portion successful the 1988 Games successful Seoul and the 1996 Games successful Atlanta, winning bronze successful both.

He made his Paralympic debut astatine London 2012 but some helium and his member Marc missed retired connected medals.

In 2018 helium changeable to fame erstwhile helium appeared connected the ITV amusement Ninja Warrior UK, becoming the archetypal idiosyncratic with a ocular impairment to instrumentality portion – helium said that taking portion was scarier than competing successful London.

After finishing seventh successful Tokyo, helium took up rowing, impressing determination too, but the lure of judo proved excessively beardown and helium made the determination to ore his efforts connected it again.

The determination has been vindicated with metallic successful his J1 -90kg lawsuit astatine the 2022 World Championships successful Baku followed by metallic successful the 2023 European Championships successful Rotterdam and helium goes to Paris ranked 3rd successful the world.

Powell is besides passionate astir giving backmost to the athletics and acceptable up the GNR8 Academy successful Leicester – a assemblage interaction task which helps to enactment the section people, interruption down the barriers to carnal workout and find ways to integrate everyone into the community. He was rewarded earlier this twelvemonth with the Social Impact Award astatine the PLx Awards hosted by UK Sport.

Men’s -90kg J1: Saturday, 7 September