That’s the story that great britain’s sophie christiansen.
Sophie paralympic equestrian. Our athletes participated in 18 events across. The former european and world. Individual paralympic gold medallist sophie wells obe is an outstanding athlete in the spectacular and technically demanding equestrian sport of dressage.
She was born two months premature and later diagnosed with cerebral palsy, which affects her. But now, at 24, she has just won three glorious gold medals at the. Sophie christiansen cbe, equestrian, has competed in four successive paralympics from athens 2004 to rio 2016 games winning 8 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medals.
This year’s paralympic games at tokyo, which ended on sunday (sept 5) saw 10 singaporean athletes give their all to do us proud. We speak to para equestrian champion sophie christiansen about living with cerebral palsy and competing in para dressage ahead of the tokyo 2020 paralympic games. Sophie was awarded an mbe in.
8 time paralympic equestrian gold medalist, woman in tech and disability campaigner.