Elizabeth Clegg

Profile

100m, T12

Funding: World Class Podium

DOB: 24 March 1990

Born: Bollington, Cheshire

Lives: Newcastleton

Club: Border Harriers AC / Edinburgh Woollen Mill AC

Contact:

Coach: Janice Eaglesham

International Highlights

2006 World Championships Assen 200m silver

Personal Bests

100m 12.80 (2007), 200m 26.06 (2006)

Career summary

• Libby burst on to the scene at the Assen 2006 IPC Athletics World Championships, winning a silver medal and just missing out on

  a second medal, aged just 16.  

• Before that as a child she was a keen ballet dancer before moving into athletics. As a sprinter she has been very successful on a national level winning British open titles

• The teenager from Newcastleton in the Borders was partnered by guide runner Lincoln Asquith at the World Championships - her biggest event yet.

• She produced terrific performances in Assen setting PBs to take the unexpected silver. She was denied a second medal only when officials decided her guide crossed the line before her.

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