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Paralympic gold medallists named on 48-strong British team for IPC Athletics World Championships

  • Athletics News

By Emily GoddardJune 18 - Jonnie Peacock, Hannah Cockroft and Richard Whitehead are among the Paralympic champions named on the 48-strong British team heading to the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics World Championships next month.

London 2012 gold medallists Mickey Bushell, Aled Davies and Josie Pearson also feature on the line-up

Sophie Hahn, Scott Jones, Andrew Kaar, Erin McBride, Holly Neill, Georgina Oliver, Laura Sugar and Lee


Paralympic champion Formosa named Equestrian Australia International Athlete of the Year

  • Equestrian News

By Emily GoddardMay 9 - Joann Formosa has been named as International Athlete of the Year at the Equestrian Australia Awards at Le Montage in Sydney after becoming a Paralympic champion at London 2012.

, who won gold in the grade 1b mixed dressage at London's Greenwich Park - beating home Paralympian Lee

Pearson who had dominated the class since the Sydney 2000 Games, topped London Olympians Lyndal Oatley



Alan Hubbard: If Paralympians are looking for someone to blame in Honours row it should be David Cameron

  • Inside the Blogs

delighted  with the system, not least a fistful of Paralympians, among them the dressage rider Lee

Pearson (OBE) who told the Independent on Sunday that he was "pissed off" at the apparent discrepancy

received a knighthood, even though he has less than half the number of gold medals that dressage rider Lee

Pearson has won in the Paralympics Six-times gold-medal wheelchair racing winner David Weir (CBE),

But if  if you want want to blame anyone for there not being a Sir David Weir or Sir Lee Pearson


Row growing over lack of recognition for Paralympians in Queen's New Year Honours List

  • London 2012

By Tom DegunDecember 30 - International Paralympic Committee President Sir Philip Craven has backed claims by Britain's former Sports Minister Gerry Sutcliffe (pictured) that the Queen's New Year Honours List made a "big mistake" in not recognising more Paralympic athletes who were successful at London 2012. 

Dressage rider Lee Pearson, who won his 10th gold medal at London 2012, is also upset after receiving

Pearson won three gold medals at three successive Games, in Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008

There still seems to be a discrepancy between a Paralympic medal and an Olympic medal," said Pearson.

Lee Pearson believes that he deserves to be knighted after a Paralympic career which has seen him win

Sir Philip claimed that Weir and Pearson were right to feel disappointed."


Baker and Colbourne add support for inaugural ParalympicsGB Sports Fest

  • London 2012 Paralympics

By Tom Degun November 6 - London 2012 Paralympic champions Natasha Baker and Mark Colbourne have become the latest athletes to throw their support behind the first ever ParalympicsGB Sports Fest next month.

on TV and saying to my parents 'I want to do that''," said Baker, who took up riding after watching Lee

Pearson compete at Sydney 2000."



Olympic gold medal winning boxer Adams chosen as top of Britain's Pink List

  • Boxing

By Duncan MackayNovember 4 - Olympic gold medal-winning boxer Nicola Adams has topped a poll of the 101 most influential lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender figures in Britain. 

presenter who worked for the BBC during the Olympics and Channel 4 at the Paralympics.Dressage rider Lee

Pearson was voted fourth on Britain's Pink ListDressage rider Lee Pearson, who won a gold, silver and



Peacock and Pistorius to star in new Channel 4 films about London 2012

  • London 2012 Paralympics

By Duncan MackaySeptmber 28 - BT and Channel 4 are to launch a new series of short films next week showcasing the stories of five athletes, including British sprinter Jonnie Peacock, who competed in the Paralympics at London 2012. 

javelin when he finished only tenth after he was ruled to have fouled on two of his three attempts, and Lee

Pearson, the British dressage rider who lost his 12 year unbeaten record in Paralympic competiton, although

 Dressage rider Lee Pearson lost his unbeaten Paralympic record at London 2012 but still won three


ParalympicsGB pass London 2012 medal target

  • London 2012 Paralympics

By David Gold at the Aquatics Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonSeptember 6 - Britain's Paralympians have achieved their total London 2012 medal target, surpassing the total from Beijing four years ago.

the adaptive rowing, suffering his first ever defeat in international competition last weekend.And Lee

Pearson (pictured below) has been beaten twice at his two individual equestrian events – prior to these


Brilliant Baker bags equestrian brace as multiple champion Pearson endures further frustration

  • Equestrian News

equestrian stars at Greenwich Park today as Natasha Baker picked up her second gold of the Paralympics but Lee

Pearson missed out on an 11th gold.

Pearson, partnered with Gentleman (pictured below), was denied by a superb showing from Austria's Pepo

Sarah Rodger, who gave him just 65.25 per cent compared with Argentine Lilian Iannone, who awarded Pearson

would be other than to say it has happened before with that judge and it will probably happen again," Pearson

Had he won one more gold at these Games Pearson would have drawn level with Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson




I'd have chosen Weir or Pearson as ParalympicsGB flag-bearer, says Norfolk

  • Wheelchair Tennis

By David Gold at the Main Press Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonAugust 28 - Peter Norfolk, Britain's flag-bearer for the Opening Ceremony of the Paralympic Games, has told insideworldparasport of his surprise at being chosen, and revealed who he would have selected himself.

(pictured top) said he would have chosen double gold medal-winning wheelchair athlete David Weir or Lee

Pearson (pictured below), whom he referred to as "Sir Lee", an equestrian rider who has won three gold

medals at the last three Games.If Pearson continues his record of winning every Paralympic event he