Aaron Phipps

Aaron Phipps (born 7 April 1983) is a British wheelchair rugby player who won a Paralympic gold medal with the Great Britain team at the Tokyo Paralympics, the final being played on 29 August 2021. He had earlier competed in wheelchair rugby at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Phipps lost his legs and most of his fingers to amputation after contracting meningitis C and meningococcal sepsis in January 1999, and spent a year in hospital. He took up wheelchair racing in 2007, completed the London Marathon in 2008 and 2009, and on 23 May 2016 became the first disabled British person to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, finishing the ascent on his hands and knees when his wheelchair could no longer be used. He was appointed MBE in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to wheelchair rugby.