Profile
Shot, F57
Funding: World Class Development
DOB: 11 April 1988
Born: Bridgend
Lives: Bridgend
Club: Wales FDSW
Contact:
Coach: Anthony Hughes
International Highlights
2006 World Championships Assen javelin 5th, shot 5th; 2007
IWAS Taipei shot 4th, discus bronze, javelin 5th
Personal Bests
Javelin: 35.34 (2007)
Shot: 12.53 (2007)
Discus: 36.88 (2007)
Career summary
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At the age of nine, Nathan was run over by a freight train which resulted in him having both legs amputated. Nathan first started athletics when he was 14 after his coach spotted him in at a Rotary Club Games. Since then he has became a talented athlete winning gold medals for all three of his events in the DSE British Open Athletics Championships, at the Junior World Championships and Belgium Open Athletics Championships amongst many other competitions.
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Nathan is a multi-sport athlete who represented Great Britain in the 2006 Paralympic Winter Games in Turin in Ice Sledge Hockey. He wants to be the first British athlete to medal at both winter and summer Paralympics
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He lives in Bridgend, South Wales and is due to go to University in September to study sports coaching.
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