Claire Taggart
Claire Taggart | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 February 1995 (age 26) |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Occupation | stationer and boccia player |
| Known for | Boccia Paralympian |
Claire Taggart (born 11 February 1995) is a UK Olympic Boccia player and stationer from Northern Ireland.
Life[]
Taggart is from Larne in Northern Ireland. She was identified as a BC2 boccia player in 2014.[1]
She was named with David Smith, Nigel Murray and Joshua Rowe as part of the UK's Boccia team.[2] She was 21 when competed at the Rio Paralympics in 2016. No one from Northern Ireland had competed in a Paralympic boccia event before. She would later call her dog Rio.[3]
Taggart runs her own stationery business.[3]
She won a silver medal at the European Championships in Seville in 2019[3] where she was beaten by from Belgium. Taggart was in the three person team with and David Smith that received gold medals. The three of them beat the team from Slovakia 4-3 in the final.[4] During the COVID-19 pandemic she had to keep fit by training in her hallway for four months.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Claire Taggart - Medical and clinical orthotics". DM Orthotics. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
- ^ "| UK Sport". www.uksport.gov.uk. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
- ^ a b c d "Great Britain Squad". Boccia UK. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
- ^ "Larne star Claire Taggart achieves double boccia medal success at European Championships". belfasttelegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2021-06-25.
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- 1995 births
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- People from Northern Ireland
- Boccia players
- Boccia players at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Boccia players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
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