FORTUNE Sabrina

Date of Birth: 25 May 1997

Age: 24

Gender: Female

Sport Class: F20

Place of birth: WREXHAM

Birth Country:

Great Britain

Place of residence : MOLD

Residence Country:

Great Britain

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Athletics	Women's Shot Put - F20	5

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Olympic Stadium - Standing Shot Put	Women's Shot Put - F20 Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
Paralympic Games
3	Shot Put - F20	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	12.94
World Championships
1	Shot Put - F20	2019	Dubai, UAE	13.91
4	Shot Put - F20	2015	Doha, QAT	12.27
6	Shot Put - F20	2017	London, GBR	12.29
European Championships
1	Shot Put - F20	2018	Berlin, GER	13.30

Art, baking. (Facebook page, 29 Aug 2020)

Occupation:

Hospitality Management - Coleg Cambria, Wrexham, GBR

Languages spoken:

English, French

Deeside AAC [Great Britain]

Ian Robinson [personal], GBR, from 2012

National team:

2015 (britishathletics.org.uk, 20 Oct 2015)

She took up discus at age 11. She began focusing on shot put in 2014. (bbc.co.uk, 02 Dec 2019; dailypost.co.uk, 13 Sep 2012)

She watched her brother compete and decided she wanted to try athletics herself. She began representing her school and was then asked to join her local club. "I started playing sport because we travelled around the UK with my brother and I thought, 'Why does he get to throw and I don't?' I enjoy the challenge and buzz of competitions." (sportsaid.org.uk, 03 Aug 2015; dcdesignprint.co.uk, 19 Mar 2020)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. (dailypost.co.uk, 10 Sep 2016)

Winning a bronze medal in the women's F20 shot put at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (dcdesignprint.co.uk, 19 Mar 2020)

British Para thrower Beverley Jones. (Like Minded, 26 Feb 2020)

Her brother. (sportsaid.org.uk, 03 Aug 2015)

Philosophy:

"You learn from the ups and downs. Every wall that gets put in front of you, you either go around or you climb it. You always learn from everything and even if it doesn't go right, it can go right another time." (deeside.com, 22 Aug 2018)

She was named the 2012 Flintshire Athlete of the Year and the 2012 Wrexham Athletics Female Para Sport Personality of the Year in Wales. (specialolympicswales.co.uk, 01 May 2013)

General Interest

Classification
T20, F20 (IPC, 04 Mar 2021)

Type of Impairment
Intellectual impairment (dailypost.co.uk, 13 Sep 2013)

Impairment Details
She has speech dyspraxia, which makes it difficult for her to communicate. The condition has resulted in a mild intellectual impairment. (dailypost.co.uk, 13 Sep 2013)

General
ADAPTING TO HEAT
She planned to use heat chambers to acclimatise to the temperature and humidity of Japan for a month to six weeks before the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. She prepared for the 2019 World Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in the same way. "For throwers the heat is really good because you don't have to keep moving. Your body is already warm. For runners it's awful. It's not hard to work out how to deal with it. So for a lot of hot countries you work out that the mornings are really hot, the middle of the day can be extremely hot and at night you're fine, so you compete at night most of the time. That means that although you lose the heat you've still got the humidity. With heat you sweat, but with humidity you don't." (dcdesignprint.co.uk, 19 Mar 2020)

DEALING WITH DIFFERENCES
She has found that international competitions can be arranged differently from country to country, which can cause issues related to her performance. "There are some competitions where you have the starting gun right next to you. With a learning disability you struggle with change. If something's different in a competition you struggle. For me, to go in front of a camera and have it follow you around, it's hard. I don't want it. I just want to throw. I've had times when they present medals halfway through a competition and you can't throw." (Like Minded, 26 Feb 2020)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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