Hannah Cockroft
Hannah Cockroft in 2010
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Full name | Hannah Lucy Cockroft | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | [3] Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom |
30 July 1992 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | www.hannahcockroft.co.uk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Wheelchair racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 100 m & 200 m T34 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Leeds City AC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hannah Lucy Cockroft[5] MBE (born 30 July 1992) is a British wheelchair athlete specialising in sprint distances in the T34 classification. She holds the Paralympic and world records for both the 100 metres T34 and 200 metres T34.[6] Competing for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, she won two gold medals.[7][8]
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Early years
Cockroft was born on 30 July 1992 in Halifax, West Yorkshire with cerebral palsy.[3] She suffered two cardiac arrests at birth that damaged two different parts of her brain. She was left with a disability that affected her balance and mobility, problems with her fine motor skills, weak hips and deformed feet and legs.[9] Her parents were told that she would never be able to walk, talk, do anything for herself or live past her teenage years.[10]
Athletics career
Cockroft competes on the track as a T34 athlete.
Introduction to wheelchair racing
At secondary school, Cockroft competed in swimming, wheelchair racing, seated discus, wheelchair basketball and wheelchair rugby.[9][11] Her father, a welder, built her first racing chair.[11]
As a result of a silver medal performance in the seated discus at the UK School Games, she attended a British Paralympic Association talent day at Loughborough University in October 2007.[3][9] There, she was given her first opportunity to try an elite racing chair by Dr Ian Thompson, husband of former wheelchair racer Tanni Grey-Thompson.[12]
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Ian let me have a go in his wheelchair and I loved it. I'd never experienced anything like it before. You go and you don't stop.[12]
Thompson went on to coach her for the first year of her career.[9] In 2008 a dance academy she attended gave the proceeds from programme sales at its annual festival to help her buy her own racing chair, which she named 'Sally'.[2][11] She was subsequently invited to join the Great Britain Paralympic Team shortly after the Beijing Paralympics.[9]
2010
By 2010, Cockroft was being coached by Peter Eriksson, head Paralympic coach at UK Athletics.[13] She competed at the 2010 British Wheelchair Athletics Association International event, and broke four world records.[3] At the Aviva Athletics Awards in December 2010 she received the Best British Paralympic Performance award for 2010.[14]
2011
At the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships in Christchurch, New Zealand she took gold in the 100 metres T34 and 200 metres T34.[3] Her performances earned her a second Best British Paralympic Performance award in November 2011.[15]
2012
In May 2012 she became the first Paralympic athlete to break a world record in the London Olympic Stadium, recording a time of 18.56 seconds to win the 100 metres T34.[3] She broke the record again at the Swiss National Championships later that month, finishing in 17.60 seconds.[3]
On 31 August 2012 she won Great Britain's first track and field gold medal of the 2012 Summer Paralympics, winning the final of the 100 metres T34 in 18.05 seconds, a Paralympic record.[7] On 6 September, she won another gold medal in 200 metres T34 in 31.90 seconds, also a Paralympic record.[8] In honour of her achievements at London 2012, Royal Mail issued two postage stamps featuring Cockroft and painted two post boxes gold in her home town of Halifax.[16][17] She was awarded the freedom of Calderdale at a homecoming event at the Halifax Piece Hall.[18][19]
2013
With Peter Eriksson appointed as UK Athletics head coach in October 2012, Cockroft will be coached by Australian Jenni Banks in 2013.[4]
In July 2013 at the IPC Athletics World Championships in Lyon Cockroft retained both her T34 100 metres and T34 200 metres titles.[20][21]
On 28 July 2013 Cockroft won the T33/T34 100 metres race at the Anniversary Games at the Olympic Stadium with a stadium record time of 17.80 seconds.[22]
2014
In March 2014 Cockcroft competed in and won a Sport Relief edition of Strictly Come Dancing, dancing with Pasha Kovalev.[23]
On 1 June 2014 Cockroft recorded a new World Record time of 3.53.57 at 1500 m during the Bedford International Games.[24]
In August 2014, Cockroft won double European gold (100m and 800m) in Swansea to complete the only major championships medals missing in her career.
Personal life
In a University gap year, Cockroft is studying for a sports level 2 diploma at Calderdale College. She has a place deferred on a Sports Development degree course at Leeds Metropolitan University.[25] She has also done work experience at Leeds City Council Sports Development.[26]
She has ambitions to be involved with sports media once she has finished competing.[3] In October 2014 she launched 17 Sports Management Limited ("17"), a sports management company set up to represent disabled athletes.[27]
She cites British wheelchair rugby and F51 discus athlete Josie Pearson and Canadian wheelchair racer Chantal Petitclerc as her sporting inspirations.[3] Petitclerc, winner of 15 Paralympic gold medals and formerly coached by Eriksson, has been involved with Cockroft's development as a mentor and advisor.[28]
She hates fish, and believes she may have ichthyophobia.[29]
Honours
- She was awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Calderdale on 13 September 2012.[30]
- Cockroft was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours List for services to athletics.[31][32]
- In 2014 Cockcroft was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Bradford.[33]
Corporate sponsorship
In 2014, caravan and motorhome insurance company, Caravan Guard, based in Hannah's hometown of Halifax, pledged to sponsor her for a sixth year.
Statistics
Personal bests
Event | Time | Competition | Location | Date | Records |
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100 metres | 17.60 | Swiss National Championships | Nottwil, Switzerland | 20 May 2012 | WR |
200 metres | 31.23 | US Paralympic Track & Field Trials | Indianapolis, United States | 29 June 2012 | WR |
400 metres | 58.59[lower-alpha 1] | Stoke Mandeville Disability Athletics Challenge | Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom | 30 July 2011 | |
800 metres | 2:03.34[lower-alpha 1] | Stoke Mandeville Disability Athletics Challenge | Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom | 31 July 2011 | |
1500 metres | 4:28.66 | German Disability Championships | Sindelfingen, Germany | 12 July 2009 | |
5000 metres | 15:20.82 | BWAA International | Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom | 14 June 2009 | |
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3 miles | 15:48 | London Marathon Mini Marathon | London, United Kingdom | 25 April 2010 | |
10 km | 32:35 | Great Manchester Run | Manchester, United Kingdom | 16 May 2010 | |
10 miles | 67:12 | Thirsk 10 | Thirsk, United Kingdom | 29 November 2009 |
World records
Event | Time | Competition | Location | Date |
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World records | ||||
100 metres T34 | 17.60 | Swiss National Championships | Nottwil, Switzerland | 20 May 2012 |
200 metres T34 | 31.23 | US Paralympic Track & Field Trials | Indianapolis, United States | 29 June 2012 |
400 metres T34 | 59.99 | Sydney Track Classic | Sydney | 18 February 2012 |
800 metres T34 | 2:04.84 | Swiss National Championships | Arbon, Switzerland | 27 June 2010 |
Paralympic records | ||||
100 metres T34 | 18.06 | 2012 Summer Paralympics | London, United Kingdom | 31 August 2012 |
200 metres T34 | 31.90 | 2012 Summer Paralympics | London, United Kingdom | 6 September 2012 |
Medal history
- Paralympic Games
- 2012 – 100 metres T34; 200 metres T34
- IPC Athletic Championships
- IWAS World Junior Championships
See also
References
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External links
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- Living people
- British wheelchair racers
- Female wheelchair racers
- Sportspeople with cerebral palsy
- World record holders in Paralympic athletics
- Paralympic athletes of Great Britain
- Paralympic gold medalists for Great Britain
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Sportspeople from Halifax, West Yorkshire
- Members of the Order of the British Empire