Sarah Storey SVNW Patron
Sarah Storey MBE - Britains most decorated paralympic swimmer is Sports Volunteering North West Ltd's first patron.
Sarah is one of Great Britain's most decorated female Paralympians, having won 7 Paralympic gold medals [18 medals in total] since making her International debut as a swimmer at the 1992 Paralympics in Barcelona.
In 2008, just 8 days after winning her 2nd cycling gold medal at the Beijing Paralympics, Sarah also became Great Britain's first ever Paralympian to win the title at a Senior able-bodied National Championship event.
On this occasion Sarah won the Senior Women’s 3,000m Individual Pursuit Title at the velodrome in Manchester. Sarah had returned home from Beijing earlier than the rest of the team to compete at the able-bodied Championships and the move paid off as she created another slice of history!
In October 2007, Sarah married fellow cyclist and tandem pilot Barney Storey, himself a 2 time gold medallist from Beijing and twice a double world champion in tandem sprint events. They both live and train in Manchester.
You can find out about her achievements as an athlete here, Sarah also writes a blog for SVNW which you can read here.
We wanted to find out a bit about the person behind the medal winner so we asked her a couple of questions.
As a volunteer Coach what is your top tip to achieving results with your swimmers?
Keep it fun and light-hearted but make sure there is a good work ethic to allow the swimmers to flourish and achieve whatever level they wish to take their sport to.
As an elite athlete, you must have strict diet, but what is your favourite treat?
A Crunchie on a Friday !!!
You will have travelled all over the world competing, but if we had a Star Trek transporter where would you like to go?
Ooooh a difficult question!! I'd love to see Antarctica but then at the opposite end of the temperature scale a safari in deepest
What is your favourite film?
James Bond!
Who is your sporting hero/ heroine?
I look up to so many fellow athletes for the various pieces of history each of them has made, but the one girl that got me thinking about what I could do as a young swimmer was Sarah Hardcastle who won silver and bronze in the 400m and 800m in 1984 LA Games, the 1st Olympics I remember watching aged 6.
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