SPRINT king Jonnie Peacock won Paralympic gold medals at both London 2012 and Rio 2016.
The sprinter is gunning for a third at the Tokyo Paralympic Games.
Who is Jonnie Peacock?
Jonnie Peacock was born in Cambridge on May 28, 1993.
At the age of five he contracted meningitis, which led to him having his right leg amputated below the knee.
He originally wanted to play football, but his athletics prowess was soon discovered during his time at school.
He was appointed an MBE in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to athletics – and was strutting his stuff on the Strictly 2017 dancefloor until leaving the show in week nine.
Jonnie was partnered with Oti Mabuse on the show and impressed the judges with his jive on a specially made blade.
In August 2021, Jonnie made a guest appearance in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks.
He was brought in to give advice to character Sid, who had his leg amputated after a car crash in 2020.
How has Jonnie Peacock’s athletics career worked out?
Jonnie set a new 100 metres world record in amputee sprinting in June 2010 in the US when he ran an exceptional 10.85 seconds.
He won Olympic gold for the first time in front of a home audience at the London 2012 Games, when he ran 10.90 secs in the 100m T44 final.
Incredibly, the Cambridge runner then defended his Olympic crown by winning the 100m at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, even bettering his London time with 10.81secs.
The following year he won gold in the T44 100 metres at the World Championships in London.
Following his success, he was chosen as a presenter for the 2018 Winter Paralympics on Channel 4.
Jonnie is part of the squad heading to Tokyo, looking to make it a hat-trick of golds.
Ahead of the Games he said: “I don’t need to go and win another gold medal for my happiness.
“I would like to, it would probably help – it would probably help the bank more than anything else to be honest – but yeah I’m just happy competing , training full time for a living now and getting enough to live off.
“I’ll do whatever makes me happy, but that’s probably less work
Source: Athletics - thesun.co.uk
