Two British sporting legends were inducted into the WheelPower Stoke Mandeville Hall of Fame during the Inter Spinal Unit Games, which is held every year at Stoke Mandeville Stadium to promote a healthy and active lifestyle through sport for people who had recently experienced a spinal injury.
The two inductees were wheelchair basketball player Terry Bywater and wheelchair curler Angie Malone MBE. They join a small group of elite British Paralympians and Sports Administrators with a unique connection to the Stadium, the birthplace of the Paralympic Movement and the charity WheelPower.
About the inductees:
Terry Bywater
Terry began playing wheelchair basketball at the age of 13 at an open day in Middlesbrough with the Teesside Lions. After playing for a year, he was selected for the Great Britain Under-23 team and began training making his debut at the Sydney 2000 Summer Paralympics.
Terry has competed in seven Paralympic Games, always reaching the semi-final and winning bronze medals in Athens, Beijing, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo and most recently, a silver medal in Paris.
Terry Bywater said: “This is absolutely unbelievable, and I am incredibly proud to join the Hall of Fame”
Angie Malone MBE
Angie is the definition of a trailblazer and has competed in four Paralympic Games Paralympics winning a silver medals in Turin in 2006 and a bronze medal in Sochi in Russia in 2014.
Angie won World Championship gold medals in Switzerland and in Scotland plus silver medals in Prague and bronze medals in Sweden and Korea 2017.
Angie was also selected to light the Paralympic Flame, here at Stoke Mandeville Stadium ahead of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games in 2022.
WheelPower Chief Executive, Martin McElhatton said: “The WheelPower Stoke Mandeville Hall of Fame was introduced in 2003 and honours great men and women within Paralympic wheelchair sport in this country who have made an outstanding contribution to wheelchair sport.”
