Sports People with Disabilities

There are many disabled people who play sports, and some have won awards in the Paralympics and other competitions for disabled sports people. Less well known is the fact that some famous mainstream sports people have disabilities. Some examples are listed below.


Tony Grieg

Disability: epilepsy (source: Famous People with Epilepsy)

Cricketer for England

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Gary Mabbutt

Disability: diabetic (source: BBCi Health section on Diabetes)

Football player for various clubs, most recently Tottenham Hotspur.

Played for England in a World Cup game.

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Paula Radcliffe

Disability: asthma (source: How Paula overcame Asthma on BBCi)

Marathon runner

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Jonty Rhodes

Disability: epilepsy (source: Epilepsy South Africa web page)

Plays cricket for South Africa


Steve Redgrave

Disability: diabetic (source: Bishops Stortford College report on his visit)

Olympic rower, part of the team which won a gold medal for the UK in the 2000 Sydney Olympic games.

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Andy Boy Simmonz

Disability:  cystic fibrosis (source: Andrew Simmons article on Wikipedia)

Wrestler, for the British Frontier Wrestling Alliance.

Has also competed on the World Wrestling Entertainment shows WWE Velocity and WWE Heat.

Ken Venturi

Disability: stuttered severely when younger (source: Stuttering Foundation of America)

Golfer (won 1961 U.S. Open).

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