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Steve Montgomery and Gerry McCrory: Wheelchair rugby champions on ’different ability’ sport
Steve Montgomery has come a long way since taking up wheelchair racing just over a year ago.
Despite being in his 50s, Steve has clocked a sub-18 minute parkrun and competed alongside the elite athletes at this year's London Marathon.
But Steve's first sporting love is wheelchair rugby. He is a member of the successful Northampton Saints Wheelchair Rugby team which won this year's WR5s Premiership and Midlands Development League competitions, and came second in the first ever version of the sport's European Cup - The Poland Cup.
The side's captain is Gerry McCrory, an amputee who can walk normally using a prosthetic leg but uses a wheelchair to play rugby.
Running Tales spoke to Steve and Gerry about wheelchair sport, how accessible it is, and being 'different ability' rather than disabled athletes...
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The music in this podcast is:"Fearless First" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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By Michelle and Craig LewisSteve Montgomery has come a long way since taking up wheelchair racing just over a year ago.
Despite being in his 50s, Steve has clocked a sub-18 minute parkrun and competed alongside the elite athletes at this year's London Marathon.
But Steve's first sporting love is wheelchair rugby. He is a member of the successful Northampton Saints Wheelchair Rugby team which won this year's WR5s Premiership and Midlands Development League competitions, and came second in the first ever version of the sport's European Cup - The Poland Cup.
The side's captain is Gerry McCrory, an amputee who can walk normally using a prosthetic leg but uses a wheelchair to play rugby.
Running Tales spoke to Steve and Gerry about wheelchair sport, how accessible it is, and being 'different ability' rather than disabled athletes...
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Visit Running Tales on Substack: https://runningtales.substack.com
Search for Running Tales wherever you listen to podcasts to find our audio version of episodes.
The music in this podcast is:"Fearless First" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/