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GB&NI PARA ATHLETES SHINE AT GRAND PRIX

In Athlete
May 31, 2025

The world athletics prize in Switzerland tok Place from May 23 to 25, with 22 athletes from the Great Britain races, including many promising athletes of England.

Hannah Cockcroft (Paul Moseley, Leeds) headed the podium three times in Nottwil. An outstanding performance in the T34 of 100 m of women, winning just under 3 seconds with a time or 16.98, followed by 400m T34 of women and 55.57 and 800m T34 of women with a time or 01: 52.36.

An impressive performance by Nathan Maguire (Steve Hoskins, Kirkby AC) in the T54 of 1500m male, ending closely behind the Olympic champion Marcel Hug (SUI) in second place with a time of 2: 45.25. Danny Sidbury (Christine Parsloe) finished fourth with a time or 2: 55.01 in his first competition from the injury.

Maguate the victory in the 400m male in a fast time or 45.55, exceeding the Paralympic silver medista Paeng-Nuea Athiwat (Tha) along the way. The seventh ended in the T45 of 100 m (14.21) male in a 38 athletes field. In a closed 800m T54, Maguire ended just behind the hug with a time or 1: 20.54, with Sidbury once again arriving in a fourth closure with a time or 1: 31.02 in a field of 36 runners.

Completing his Grand Prix, Sidbury won his third fourth place of the meeting in the T53-54 of 5000m male with a time of 10: 23.27.

A better personal moment of 16.72 for Marcus Perrinaeu-Daley (Weir Archer Academy) at the end of 100m T52 in third place in an extremely close race, a remarkable consideration of performance that its preparation has introduced the bone with a bad shoulder injury. On Sunday, it ended seventh in an eleven field with a time or 1: 03.63 at the T52 of 400m male, but fought with a shoulder injury in the race.

Mel Woods (Rodger Harkins, Red Star) headed the table in the T54 of 800m female with a time or 1: 45.81, surpassing the Paralympic bronze medalist of Paris, Susannah Scaroni (USA. UU.). However, the US Athlete defeated it to second place in race T53-54 of 1500 m feminine.

He finished second in the 400m female with a time of 53.42, a new better staff for the Scottish athlete. In his final event he ended in the seventh place in 100m T54 (16.94).

Fabienne Andre (Richard Chiassaro, Harlow) second behind the teammate GB & Ni Cockcoft in the 400m T34 with a time or 1: 05.90 and again in the 800m T34 with a time of 2: 13.83. It ended third in the T34 of 100 m of women (19.78).

Leaving the back of the road marathons in Boston and London, Eden Rainbow-Copper (Arno Mul, Red Velvet Racing) finished seventh in a field of 14 athletes in the T53-54 of 1500m female with a time of 3: 25.32. In the T53-54 of 5000m of women, Rainbow-Cooper finished fifth with a time of 11: 18.24 and Mel Woods in the fourth 11: 17.98.

Nottwill’s complete list of results can be found here.

Closer at home at the Stratford Speed ​​GP meeting, Zach Shaw (Leon Baptiste, Cleethorpes) presented a solid performance in the 100 meters of men with a time of 11.03, while Thomas Young (Joseph McDonnell, Loughborough) ran 11.14 in the 100m. In the 100 female meters, Didi Okoh (Tony Hadley, Birchfield) ran 14.64, while Ali Smith (Leon Baptiste, Guildford and Godalming) ended with a time or 13.00.

URS SIGG Photographic Team