Scottish wheelchair racer and curler
Meggan Dawson-Farrell
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Born | (1992-09-18) 18 September 1992 (age 31)[1] |
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Disability class | T54 |
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Rank | 12th |
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Event | 1500m |
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Club | Red Star |
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Coached by | Ian Mirfin |
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Meggan Dawson-Farrell (born 18 September 1992) is a Scottish wheelchair racer.
Early life
Dawson-Farrell was born with spina bifida and also had the condition hydrocephalus. She was unable to take part in sport at school but began after attending a youth sports camp at the age of fourteen.[2][3]
Career
Dawson-Farrell is classified as a T54 wheelchair athlete. She trains with coach Ian Mirfin at the Red Star Athletics Club, a club dedicated to disabled athletes. She was a torch bearer for the 2012 Summer Paralympics,[4] and also took part in the 2014 Queen's Baton Relay preceding the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.[5]
She holds the Scottish T54 record over all distances from 400m to the marathon,[6] and is ranked 12th in the world in 1500m in her classification.[3] She competed for Scotland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the T54 1500m, where she placed seventh.[7]
At the IWAS World Junior Games held in August 2014 at Stoke Mandeville, Dawson-Farrell won the gold medal in the T54 100m event.[8]
In 2017, she switched sports to compete in wheelchair curling.[9]
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