Athlete Profile
Athlete of the day
30.08.2004
NEWSTEAD Isabel
Country: Great
Britain
Sport: Shooting
Class: SH1
What do you do with eight gold, five silver and two bronze Paralympic medals,
in three different sports and a number of world records to your credit? Go back
for more! That is what 49 year-old Isabel Newstead of Great Britain will be
doing at the ATHENS 2004 Paralympic Games. Competing this time in the 10m Air
Pistol event, this will be Newstead’s seventh consecutive Paralympic Games.
Newstead began her Paralympic career at the 1980 Arnhem Games, with two gold and
a silver medal in Swimming. She then added three gold medals in Swimming and
three silver medals in Athletics (discus, shot and javelin) at the 1984
Paralympic Games at Stoke Mandeville, then a Gold, silver and bronze medals in
Athletics and her first shooting medal, a bronze, at the 1988 Seoul Paralympic
Games. After a medal drought at both the Barcelona and Atlanta Paralympic Games,
she came back to not only take the gold in Sydney but to do so with a world
record performance. What will she do next?
