Kelly Gallagher (alpine skier)

Kelly Gallagher, an MBE born on 18 May 1985, is a retired Irish skier and the first athlete from Northern Ireland to compete in the Winter Paralympics, who won the UK's first ever Winter Paralympic gold medal at Sochi in 2014. She was raised in Bangor in the north of County Down, the daughter of an airline pilot, and is a graduate in mathematics from the University of Bath. She has oculocutaneous albinism and is visually impaired, and competing with her guide Claire Robb she won gold in the giant slalom in her first ever international race at the 2009 New Zealand Winter Games, and gold in slalom at the 2011 Europa Cup Finals.