Jonathan Coggan, known as Jonny and born on 25 April 1983, is a British wheelchair rugby player who has represented Great Britain at six consecutive Paralympic Games. In 2021 he won the gold medal for Great Britain at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, competing in the mixed event in the wheelchair rugby tournament. At sixteen he discovered wheelchair rugby at Stoke Mandeville Hospital after a car crash left him with a spinal injury, having been a keen footballer, and by the age of 21 he had been selected for the Great Britain national wheelchair rugby team and made his first Paralympic appearance.
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Jonathan Coggan (born 25 April 1983), nicknamed "Jonny", is a British wheelchair rugby player.
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Jonathan Coggan (born 25 April 1983), nicknamed "Jonny", is a British wheelchair rugby player.
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