Sarah has won 16 Parlaympic medals including five golds as a swimmer and two Paralympic golds as a cyclist at Beijing before vowing to become the first ever Briton to compete at both the Paralympics and able bodied Olympics .

Sarah took a step closer to fulfiling this ambition at the 2011 Track World Cup Cycling event when she fully demonstrated her Olympic potential as part of Great Britain’s team pursuit squad winning a gold medal!  If Sarah can maintain this form and continue to learn the ropes in a relatively new event, she could yet make her dream come true and find herself racing in both the Olympics and Paralympics in London 2012 !

Sarah links the lessons she has learnt through sport to improving any aspect of your life or business. In a world where the smallest margins are the difference between winning and losing- this woman can explain what it takes to has push our body and mind to their limits in order to achieve against the odds.

Sarah is Great Britain’s most decorated, currently competing, female Paralympians and after winning 5 gold, 8 silver and 3 bronze over 4 Paralympic Games as a swimmer, switched sports in 2005 and went on to win double gold as a cyclist in Beijing in 2008. Following on from her Beijing success, Sarah also became the 1st Paralympian to win an individual able-bodied national title, when she won gold in the 3,000m Individual Pursuit at the 2008 National Track Championships in Manchester. Sarah successfully defended this title at the 2009 National Track Championships in Manchester. In 2009,

Sarah also did a unique double at both the World Road Championships and World Track Championships when she won both the Road Time Trial and Road Race, as well as the 3,000m Individual Pursuit and 500m Time Trial dominating her LC1 class. During the Track Championships, Sarah further lowered her own world record in the 3,000m to clock a time of 3.34.266, a time that now places her firmly inside the top 5 female pursuiters in the world, regardless of disability.

Sarah is now hoping to qualify for both the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012 and targets the able-bodied world record over the 3,000m as her long term goal.

Sarah is an articulate and accomplished individual who swam at world-class level from 1992-2005, following which she made her debut for the British Cycling team, winning 5 gold medals and breaking 1 world record, at the 2005 European Championships. After officially changing sports in 2005, Sarah won 1 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze at her first IPC World Cycling Championships in 2006 and also, within the space of 26 days, Sarah broke the 3,000m Individual Pursuit world record, for her LC1 class, on no less than 3 occasions. In 2007, despite breaking her left collar bone the week before the competition, Sarah won the World Championship gold medal in the LC1 women’s 3,000m Individual Pursuit, further lowering her own world record by 3 seconds in the process, she also picked up a bronze medal in the 500m Time Trial for good measure. Throughout her career, Sarah has broken a world record on no less than 70 occasions!

Sarah has travelled the world as an ambassador for disabled sport, was awarded the MBE in the 1998 New Years Honours List for her services to swimming for people with disabilities and then received an OBE in the 2009 New Years Honours List for her services to disabled sport.

‘A wonderful inspirational speech I was spellbound’
Kate Hoey

‘Inspirational, truly magnificent, confident, assertive and challenging. She made a lasting impact!’
Rotary National Conference 2002

“I thought it was so powerful how Sarah lifted us up with her achievements of getting the Gold medals, then dropped us with the story of the university coach. I felt the room go “thud” with horror. Her message was so strong. She was so inspiring and the message wasn’t just about equality, she also motivated people to “take charge” and follow their dreams - I felt this could be applied to all sorts of things such as having a goal at work and using personal ambition to achieve it - not sitting back and waiting for others do it for you.”
Torbay Council Conference on Equality and Diversity “Take Charge - Putting Policy into Practice March 04”

‘Proabably one of the most engaging speakers we have used. Inspirational.’
Gary Cannon
YH Regional Conference Student Voice 2012 Games