Phillipa Gray

3000 m twin - tracking ( B & VI) in London 2012   Time trial (B & VI) in London 2012   1000 m time trial (B & VI) in London 2012

3000 m twin - tracking ( 2012)

Phillipa Gray MNZM ( born February 16, 1989 Thames ) is a New Zealand racing driver who competes in both track cycling and road racing. She suffers from Usher syndrome, an autosomal recessive inherited Hörsehbehinderung. Gray therefore travels with Laura Thompson as a pilot in tandem race.

Career

Internationally, it first drew attention to himself at the UCI Track World Championships of Disabled Persons in March 2011 in Montichiari. There she won in the 3000 -meter individual pursuit and a seventh in the time trial over 1000 meters fifth. In September the same year it secured at the UCI Road World Championships of Disabled in Denmark in fourth place in the individual time trial - the road race, however, she was forced to retire prematurely.

In Carson, California, you arrive at the track world championships in February 2012 to increase: the time trial, she finished again as fifth-placed, as she won her first major success with the bronze medal in the pursuit. A little more than half a year later, Gray represented her native country at the Summer Paralympics in London in 2012. Together with Thompson, where she succeeded in the first race, the time trial on the track, the ride on the bronze podium. In the two - tracking over 3000 meters, both even went to the gold medal and thus to the Paralympic title and on the street in the time trial on the second rank.