Alison Peasgood
.jpg) Alison Peasgood at Loch Lomond | |||||||||||||||
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| Birth name | Alison Patrick | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 October 1987 Dunfermline, Scotland[1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Paratriathlon | ||||||||||||||
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Alison Peasgood (born Alison Patrick; 1 October 1987) is a British paratriathlete. She competed in the women's PT5 class at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and won a silver medal guided by Hazel Smith.[2]
Biography[edit]
Patrick was born in 1987 with albinism. She was blind at birth and gained some sight afterwards, but has never had full vision. Moreover, she has nystagmus, which causes eye movement, and her albinism makes her, and particularly her eyes, sensitive to light. Patrick worked as a physiotherapist at Victoria Hospital in Dunfermline until she moved to Loughborough.[3]
Paratriathlon became an Olympic sport at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. Patrick took the silver medal in the PT5 class behind Katie Kelly of Australia.[2] Her guide for the race was Hazel Smith who is a Durham Engineer. They had trained for two years before the Olympics. They started out with a coffee together and went on to going on tandem bike rides together.[4] Smith was already a tri-athlete having been reserve for the team at 2014 Commonwealth games.[5]
Patrick was voted "West Fife's Sports Personality of the Year ".[6]
In March 2017 she competed at the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Los Angeles. She teamed up with cyclist Helen Scott and they gained two more medals. Their tandem came third in the 1 km time trial and they gained a silver at the tandem sprint behind Thornhill and Hall.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ Hart, Ross (20 January 2021). "Fate has a hand in Alison's Games dream". Dunfermline Press. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
- ^ a b Alison Patrick Archived 2016-09-22 at the Wayback Machine. rio2016.com
- ^ Alison Patrick on her meteoric rise to the Rio Paralympics Archived 2016-09-19 at the Wayback Machine, SportScotland, 8 June 2016
- ^ Boulter, Lily (20 October 2016). "Hazel Smith: Durham Engineer to Olympic medallist". Palatinate. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ Andrew, Louise (2 September 2016). "My Paralympic journey began over coffee". BBC Sport. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ a b Hart, Ross (6 March 2017). "Alison pedals to World Championship gongs". Dunfermline Press. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
External links[edit]
- 1987 births
- Living people
- Scottish female swimmers
- British female triathletes
- Paralympic swimmers for Great Britain
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- Paralympic medalists in paratriathlon
- Paralympic silver medalists for Great Britain
- Triathletes at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- 21st-century British women
- Triathletes at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Scotland
- People with albinism
- Competitors in athletics with a visual impairment
- Scottish female cyclists
- Para-cyclists
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- Sportspeople from Dunfermline
- Scottish blind people