Libby Clegg

Libby Clegg
Libby Clegg at the 2016 Paralympic Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro
Full name	Elizabeth Clegg
nation	United Kingdom
birthday	March 24, 1990
place of birth	Stockport
Career
discipline	sprint
status	active
Medal table
Paralympic Games silver 2008 Beijing 100 m silver 2012 London 100 m gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m gold 2016 Rio de Janeiro 200 m World Championships for the Disabled silver 2006 Assen 200 m gold 2011 Christchurch 100 m bronze 2011 Christchurch 200 m silver 2013 Lyon 100 m silver 2013 Lyon 200 m  Commonwealth Games gold 2014 Glasgow 100 m European Championships for the Disabled gold 2012 Stadskanaal 100 m gold 2012 Stadskanaal 200 m
last change: September 11, 2016

Elizabeth "Libby" Clegg , MBE (* 24. March 1990 in Stockport , Greater Manchester ) is a British athlete who on the Sprint over 100 and 200 meters specializes. The visually impaired athlete is classified by the International Paralympic Committee in group T11 and starts with a companion runner - since February 2016 this has been Christopher Clarke , previously Mikhail Huggins took over the function.

life and career

In her youth she mostly trained with non-disabled clubmates. When the family moved to Scotland in 2002 and Clegg attended Edinburgh's Royal Blind School , she initially retained this practice at Edinburgh AC. However, her mother soon started looking for her disabled sports competitions. She subsequently won the British Junior Blind Championship and also took part in cross-country races. In 2010 she moved to Loughborough to train at the UK Athletics National Performance Center .

She celebrated her first major success at the age of 16 at the World Athletics Championships in Assen , Netherlands , when she won the silver medal over 200 meters. At the 2008 Paralympic Summer Games in Beijing , she represented her home country over both sprint distances and secured second place in the shorter one. Three years later, at the 2011 World Championships in Christchurch , she became world champion over 100 meters in her class and also claimed her podium over 200 meters.

At her third Paralympic Summer Games - in September 2016 in Rio de Janeiro - she finally won the gold medal over 100 meters in a new world record time. A few weeks earlier she had already set a new world record over double the distance.

Top performances

discipline	place	time	date	annotation
100 m - F11	Rio de Janeiro	11.91 sec	September 9, 2016	current world record (as of September 2016)
200 m - F11	London	24.44 sec	23rd July 2016	current world record (as of September 2016)

Web links

Commons : Libby Clegg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Libby Clegg's official athlete profile on the International Paralympic Committee website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Clegg's place of birth