Mickey Bushell, in full Michael David Bushell, is a Paralympic gold medallist and personal trainer from Telford in Shropshire, England, born on 8 June 1990. He has lumbar sacral spinal agenesis congenital paraplegia, competes in T53 category sprint events and holds the British record at 100 and 200 metres and the European record at 100 metres. He won silver in the men's T53 100 metres at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, set a T53 100 metre world record in Ibach, Switzerland in 2009, and won the T53 100 metres for Great Britain at the London 2012 Paralympics. He added a European title in the same event at Swansea in 2014 and was appointed MBE.
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He is the British record holder at 100m and 200, and a European record holder at 100m.
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(born 8 June 1990)
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He has lumbar sacral spinal agenesis congenital paraplegia and competes in T53 category sprint events.
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Michael David Bushell MBE (born 8 June 1990) is a Paralympic gold medalist and personal trainer from Telford, Shropshire, England.
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On 3 September, in the London 2012 Paralympics, he won a gold medal for Great Britain in the T53 100m in a time of 14.75 seconds, just shy of the World Record time of 14.47 seconds.
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He is the British record holder at 100m and 200, and a European record holder at 100m.
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