Sammi Kinghorn, born Samantha May Kinghorn on 6 January 1996, is a British world champion wheelchair racer and television presenter. She broke her back in December 2010 at the age of fourteen, and her article records her own account of the accident involving a forklift that her father Neill, a farm worker, was driving. She represented Team GB at the 2014 IPC European Championships in Swansea, where she won Britain's first gold medal in the T53 women's 400 metres and went on to win further golds over 100 and 800 metres. At the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris she won gold in the T53 women's 100 metres and silver in the 400, 800 and 1,500 metres.
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Samantha May Kinghorn (born 6 January 1996) is a British World Champion wheelchair racer and TV presenter.
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At the 2024 paralympics she won a gold medal.
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Kinghorn represented Team GB at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, where she won a gold medal in the T53 Women's 100m, and silver in the 400m, 800m, and 1,500m.
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Samantha May Kinghorn (born 6 January 1996) is a British World Champion wheelchair racer and TV presenter.
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