How I Started: I started Shot Putt in primary school when my librarian told me I should join an athletics clubs because I was a cross country runner at the time. I joined Portsmouth Athletics club because my friend was already a member, and I have been there since! I got injured between the ages …
How I Started: I started with swimming and my parents were always big to try everything, but my dad is an Olympic hammer thrower so he was very keen to get me into the sport. I first picked up a Hammer at the age of 8 at the side of the circle as my dad …
How I Started: I started off as a sporty kid at school, took up a lot of sports in my primary years. I competed in long jump and got an invite to the local athletics clubs at the age of 12, and then when I joined I tried out more disciplines and realised that I …
How I started: I have always been fairly sporty growing up, I played a bit of Rugby but had never tries athletics or Javelin. At 16, I threw the English schools qualifying standard, and then decided to take the sport a bit more seriously, so I joined a club and competed that same season, then, …
How I started: I started in athletes because my mum was an athletics official. We were all told that we were going to do a sport, but I didn’t like the uniform the sprinters had to wear so I decided to try Hammer Throw because my brother did it, but also my sister is an …
How I started: I used to play team sports while in school but I broke my leg playing Rugby. I decided to stop playing Rugby and realised I was was one of the fastest children of the team so the transition to cross-country was easy. I began training and was picked for Scotland at the …
How I Started I got into sports as a way to feel valued. I struggled at school and I was bullied. Due to my disability I was ridiculed a lot and as a result felt lonely, but sport gave me an opportunity to be myself and prove that I was capable of big things along …
How I Started For me, I was always really sporty when I was younger, and I participated in a handful of sports like swimming, cricket, football etc. I stopped attending these and returned to athletics, at my first session back I spotted the vault and decided I wanted to have a go myself. I spoke …
How I Started I started throwing discus at 13 after winning the county championship. To train, I was throwing pebbles on the beach with my dad. After the championships, my dad bought me my first discus and I started training at Pembrokeshire Harriers, my local athletics club. In 2014 I won my first Wales Schools …
How I Started I was a very athletic child that competed in almost every event. After competing at school in multiple sports I committed myself to Shot Put and sprinting as I started to see that my talents lay in these sports. After a while, I also dropped sprinting to focus on Shot Put as …
