Hannah Cockcroft: Maintaining motivation throughout your sporting career

The Game Changers

As we look forward to the Paralympics at Paris 2024, we're sharing this previous episode with Paralympian Hannah Cockcroft, which was first released on November 1, 2022.
Hannah Cockcroft is one of Britain’s most successful para-athletes who burst onto the world stage in 2010, breaking 9 wheelchair sprinting world records. She went on to win two golds at the London Paralympic games, with three more at the 2016 games in Rio and two in Tokyo 2021.
In the summer of 2022, Hannah won gold in the T33/34 100m at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, setting a new Games record and completing the set – with Gold medals at Every. Major. Athletics. Championships.
It’s no wonder that Hannah was awarded an MBE in 2013 for her services to athletics which was followed by an OBE in last year New Year’s Honours. Hannah talks candidly about the loneliness she experienced as a disabled child with no visible role models and how that's now changing, how it felt to discover wheelchair racing, the challenges of classification in para sport and how it felt be beaten for the first time in 7 years. It's a fascinating conversation with a true trailblazer in women's sport.

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Chapter

1. Hannah Cockcroft: Maintaining motivation throughout your sporting career (00:00:00)

2. Trailblazing Athlete Overcomes Challenges (00:00:06)

3. Overcoming Isolation Through Inclusion (00:08:12)

4. Discovering Wheelchair Racing (00:16:42)

5. London 2012 (00:20:23)

6. The Importance of Para Sport Integration (00:33:08)

7. Empowering Women in Para Sport (00:41:25)

8. Challenges of Wheelchair Access and Perception (00:44:44)

9. Future Plans Beyond Paris 2024 (00:53:05)

10. Game Changers in Women's Sport (00:56:07)