By Ryan Bangs, Sportsbeat SCOTT Moorhouse fell literally flat on his face during his first competitive foray into sprinting - but he has no shame in concentrating just on the javelin from now as a result. The 22-year-old took to the 100m starting blocks for the first time ever at the CP National Championships last [...]
(…and you’ll find the answer – if you don’t already know it! – in the pages of this Website!) The Manchester Evening News has teamed up with The BT Paralympic World Cup to give two lucky readers the opportunity to take part in a Wheelchair Basketball shootout with T4 presenter Rick Edwards on Friday 20 [...]
Disabled Sportsperson Of The Year Nottinghamshire athlete Richard Whitehead is the Disabled Sportsperson of the Year after a record breaking 2009. Whitehead, who is a double leg amputee, has smashed world bests for the marathon and half-marathon. He set a new world record in the 2009 Chicago Marathon, on 11 October, with a time of [...]
Double amputee marathon runner Richard Whitehead set a new world record time for a leg amputee at the 2009 Chicago Marathon with a time of 2 hours, 50 minutes and 38 seconds. Please click on the link below to watch the video. http://www.webcastr.com/videos/news/double-amputee-sets-new-marathon-record.html What a fantastic achievement, Richard. Many congratulations! (Thanks to Steve McNeice)
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THE BADER CUP was started in 1987, and is now widely recognised as the largest National Mixed Greensome Stableford Golf Tournament in Europe.
John Southwick founded the Tournament to raise funds for The Douglas Bader Foundation. He still organises the competition.
Please see the Bader Golf Page and the nested Bader Cup pages on the left hand menu bar.For more information, a brochure or to enter and help to raise money for a good cause, please visit John Southwick's dedicated Website:
www.thebadercup.co.uk
Art to Fly, a specialist aviation artwork Website, was created by Pat Barnard, long-time friend of Sir Douglas, as a way of supporting the Douglas Bader Foundation disabled children’s Flying Days.
You can find out more about Art to Fly and the aviation paintings and drawings, aircraft prints and books – all signed by famous WW11 pilots and carefully selected and attractively priced for aviation art collectors - by visiting the Website:
www.arttofly.orgAs Art To Fly is a non-profit organization, 100% of the profits of any sales go to help disabled children experience the joy of flight through the Douglas Bader Foundation’s “Bader Braves” Flying Days programme, details of which can be found on this Website.
