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| Nationality |  United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 December 1988 Pembrokeshire, Wales | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Para Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | F44 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight class | +80kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Matt Bush (born 22 December 1988) is a Welsh para taekwondo practitioner who competes in the F44 classification in the +80 kg category. Bush, who does not have a left hand and forearm, is a two-time champion at the World Para Taekwondo Championships.
Prior to his para taekwondo career, Bush was a javelin thrower. He had been set to make his Paralympic debut at the 2016 Summer Paralympics but he withdrew due to a shoulder injury. [1] Shortly afterward, he switched to para taekwondo. [2]
At the 2019 World Championships, Bush won the gold medal to become Britain's first world champion in para taewkwondo. [3] [4] He was named to the national para taekwondo squad at the rescheduled 2020 Summer Paralympics in 2021 in para taekwondo. [5] However he was forced to withdraw after he had injured his ACL and was replace by his teammate Joe Lane. [6] [7] At the 2023 European Para Championships, Bush won the silver medal after losing to Ivan Mikulić in the gold medal match. [8] At the World Championships in September 2023, he won his second gold medal. [9]
Bush competed in the 2024 European Taekwondo Championships, where he won the gold medal in his category. [10] The following month, he was announced as one of three members and the only male of the British para taekwondo team for the 2024 Summer Paralympics. [11] Bush defeated Neutral Paralympic athlete Aliaskhab Ramazanov in the men's K44 +80 kg final to claim gold at the 2024 Paralympics Games in Paris, France. [12] He was chosen as one of Great Britain's flagbearers for the closing ceremony alongside swimmer Poppy Maskill. [13]
Stephen James Miller MBE is a British athlete who competes in the fields of Paralympic club and discus throwing. He has won three gold, one silver, and one bronze medal in the F32/51 club throw at the Paralympics. In Paralympic F32/51 discus he won one bronze medal.
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Millicent Genevieve Knight is a British skier and student who competes at international level for ParalympicsGB in alpine skiing in the slalom, giant slalom Super-G, super combined and Downhill events with a sighted guide, Brett Wild. When Knight was one year old, she contracted an illness, diagnosed at age three, which resulted in the loss of most of her vision by the age of six. She joined the Great Britain Paralympic skiing team in 2012, and progressed to compete at international-level events. Knight was the British flagbearer at Sochi in 2014 – her debut Paralympics - where, at the age of 15, she was the youngest person ever to compete for ParalympicsGB at the Winter Games. In the same year Knight also became an Honorary Doctor of the University of Kent.
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