Phillipa Gray

Phillipa Gray

To person
Date of birth	February 16, 1989
nation	New Zealand
discipline	Rail and road
To the team
Current team	Cycling Southland
function	driver
Most important successes
Paralympic Games 3000 m two-man pursuit (B&VI) in London 2012 time trial (B&VI) in London 2012 1000 m time trial (B&VI) in London 2012 World championships for the disabled 3000 m two-man pursuit ( 2012 )
Last update: September 2, 2012

Phillipa Gray MNZM (born February 16, 1989 in Thames ) is a New Zealand cyclist who competes in both track cycling and road races . She suffers from Usher syndrome , an autosomal recessive inherited Hörsehbehinderung . Gray is therefore driving a tandem race with Laura Thompson as a pilot .

Career

Internationally she first attracted attention at the UCI World Championships for the disabled in March 2011 in Montichiari . There she fought seventh in the 3,000-meter single pursuit and fifth in the time trial over 1,000 meters. In September of the same year she secured fourth place in the individual time trial at the UCI Road World Championships for the disabled in Denmark - but she had to give up the road race prematurely.

In Carson , California , she achieved an increase at the World Track Championships in February 2012: She finished the time trial again in fifth place, while she celebrated her first major success with the bronze medal in the pursuit. A little more than half a year later, Gray represented her home country at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London . There, in the very first race, the time trial on the track, she and Thompson made it to the bronze podium. In the two-man pursuit over 3000 meters, both even won the gold medal and thus the Paralympic title and on the road in the time trial to second place.

Web links

• Profile of Gray on the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games website