Ben Rushgrove
Sport/Event >
Track & field athletics, T36 100m and 200m
Date and Place of Birth >
1988, Bath, UK
Coached by >
Rob Ellchuk
Course of Study >
BSc (Hons) in Sports Performance (graduated 2009)
Club >
City of Bath AC
Team Bath
Biography >
Ben Rushgrove is a talented sprinter who has competed at two Paralympic Games, medalling at both.
Ben has cerebral palsy and competed in the T36 classification disability events.
His first senior international medal was a bronze in the T36 200m at the 2006 IPC World Championships in the Netherlands.
He folloewd that up two years later with silver in the T36 100m on his Paralympic Games debut in Beijing.
Voted University of Bath Sports Personality of the Year 2009, he graduated in December 2009 with a BSc (Hons) in Sports Performance.
He competed at his second Paralympic Games at London 2012 and again came home with a medal, this time taking bronze in the T36 200m final in a personal best of 24.83.
Headline Results >
Silver – T36 100m – Paralympic Games, Beijing – August 2008
Bronze – T36 200m – Paralympic Games, London – September 2012
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