Richard smashed his World Record in the T42 200m at the IPC European Championships in Stadskanaal, the Netherlands. He clocked a time of 24.93, over 0.5sec faster than he set at the Paralympic test event at beginning the of May.
Commenting on the race, Richard said; “Obviously this past winter has been tough and I’ve been putting
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Richard Whitehead became the fourth world record-breaking athlete of the Visa London Disability Athletics Challenge, which forms part of the testing programme for London 2012. Richard cut his own 200m T42 world best time to 25.50 seconds.
“The whole atmosphere here today was great,” he said. “It’s an important day for GB athletes to gain confidence and a
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Congratulations go out to one of my sponsors – Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer – for winning a PR Week Award!
The team won the award for the work they have done on internal communications surrounding the fact that they are Official
Legal Services Provider to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Well done guys!

I was absolutely delighted to break the World Record for the 200m T42 at the Diamond League meet on Saturday! My time was a 25.69, beating the old record by just under three tenths of a second.
I’ve been training really hard with my track coach, Keith Anton, and all our work on ‘phasing’ my race
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Through this year’s Lloyds TSB National School Sport Week we’ve inspired over 4 million children to try more Olympic and Paralympic sports and achieve their personal best. Between 27 June and 1 July 2011, schools across the country took part in Britain’s biggest school sporting event.

I’m delighted to say that the International Paralympic Committee has confirmed my new World Record, set at the BT Paralympic World Cup.
I was running in the same race, the Men’s 400m, as Oscar Pistorius and we both set new records. Mine was a new T42 World record with a time of 57.06s, Oscar set a new T43 World
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What a week and what a race!
I was down in London for a few days before the London Marathon and I had a great time. I was down doing a few interviews for media (check out the pic of me on The One Show!) before tackling one of the world’s best marathons.
I have run several
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To mark the launch of the 2011 BT Paralympic World Cup, wheelchair basketball player Simon Munn, Paralympic swimming champion Liz Johnson and recent IPC Athletics world champion Richard Whitehead took part in an underwater photoshoot at the Manchester Aquatics Centre.
The BT Paralympic World Cup, which takes place in Manchester from 23rd to 28th May, will
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Now that I’m back home after the IPC World Championships in New Zealand, I’m able to look back on it with a great deal of pride – but also with a feeling of what might have been.
Winning the 200m Gold medal was clearly the highlight and it’s given me another target for 2012, as I
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I’m over the moon with my 200m Gold in the IPC World Championships in Christchurch!
Two hundred metres is a hard distance for me but I took a good look at the other guys in the warm up area and I knew what I had to do.
My start is usually quite slow and I realised they
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