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Paralympic legend Tanni Grey-Thompson backs schools Relay Challenge

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has given her support to WheelPower's new sports programme, designed to give schools the opportunity to experience wheelchair sport.

One of the world’s most successful Paralympians has given her support to a sports programme led by WheelPower, the National Disability Sports Organisation for people with a physical or locomotor impairment.  

The Relay Challenge is a team challenge based on the former Paralympic sport Wheelchair Slalom and is open to schools in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area. Groups of students will learn the basics of wheelchair sport, before testing their skills in races around a challenging course of slalom poles and obstacles to register a score on the competition leader board. 

11 time gold medal winner, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has called for schools across the area to take the opportunity to get involved in the WheelPower Relay Challenge that starts this summer. She said:

'The WheelPower Relay Challenge is a fantastic way to give school children the opportunity to learn the basics of wheelchair sport and test their skills and speed on a challenging relay course using sports wheelchairs.
'Often disabled children will have to adapt to be included in their school PE lessons, but this project can show the other school children how to think more positively about wheelchair sport.'

Tanni continues:

'The fun sessions delivered by WheelPower will also help increase awareness of disabilities in schools and students can start to understand the type of training involved to become a Paralympian.'


Participants are encouraged to raise £6 in sponsorship each. Funds raised will help WheelPower transform the lives of disabled people through various sporting activities at Stoke Mandeville Stadium and around the country.

The WheelPower Relay Challenge is open to primary, secondary and independent schools in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and other surrounding areas. 

For more information about WheelPower and how your school can get involved with the WheelPower Relay Challenge, please visit the their website or email Ollie Moore at WheelPower.