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Tanni Grey-Thompson is one of Britain's most successful athletes ever. She's won thirteen Paralympic medals, including four golds at Sydney 2000 in the 100m, 200m, 400m and 800m wheelchair races. She also has eight medal placings in the London Marathon and a whole list of British and World records.
Her other honours include an OBE, an MBE, BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year and third place in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
Tanni has been a wheelchair user since she was eight but it has never stopped her playing sport. As a child she tried basketball, swimming and tennis before settling on athletics. She has said that her parents and PE teachers encouraged her and didn't think that because she used a wheelchair she couldn't play sport.
Cardiff-born Tanni started competing at school in sports days and joined her first athletic club in Bridgend, South Wales, in her mid-teens.
She studied at Loughborough University where she could combine her politics degree with sport. Away from her athletics career, she has an active role in sports administration with the UK Sports Council and the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games Organising Council Association. Tanni has also been a presenter on BBC radio.
Tanni is now in training for the 2001 London Marathon and sees the 2002 Commonwealth Games as her next major championship.
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