A Newcastle para-triathlete is celebrating a gold medal at the British Paratriathlon Championship for the second year in a row.
Mike Salisbury, who was born with a congenital limb defect to his left arm, successfully defended his title at the event in Eton Dorney, Buckinghamshire - racing in the men's PTS5 classification and finishing first with a time of 59:52. The victory is all the more impressive as Mike had to pull out of a paratriathlon event in Spain after contracting Covid-19 last month.
Yet last week, he travelled to Montreal in Canada, placing 9th in the World Triathlon Para Series. Ranked 2nd in the UK and 20th in the world in his classification, Mike has a busy schedule of competitions this summer, due to having time off from his role as geography teacher and assistant head of sixth form at Dame Allan's Schools in Fenham.
