Gordon Perry (athlete)
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Gordon Perry is a British wheelchair athlete who has competed in
wheelchair racing Wheelchair racing is the racing of wheelchairs in track and road races. Wheelchair racing is open to athletes with any qualifying type of disability, amputees, spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy and partially sighted (when combined with another ...
and
wheelchair basketball Wheelchair basketball is basketball played by people with varying physical disabilities that disqualify them from playing a non-disabled sport. These include spina bifida, birth defects, cerebral palsy, paralysis due to accident, amputations (of ...
. The winner of the inaugural
London Marathon The London Marathon is an annual marathon held in London, United Kingdom, and is the 2nd largest annual road race in the UK, after the Great North Run in Newcastle. Founded by athletes Chris Brasher and John Disley in 1981, it is typically he ...
wheelchair race, Perry competed in a number of wheelchair races during his racing career. He was a long-time wheelchair basketball competitor and coach, having played in competition in Great Britain and as a member of the British national team in the early 1980s. Perry now runs the Wheelchair Basketball Experience, a coaching and training company.


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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British male wheelchair racers British men's wheelchair basketball players {{UK-athletics-bio-stub