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Dumfries and Galloway Standard

World champion Dumfries and Galloway wheelchair racer switches to para dressage

World champion wheelchair racer Shelby Watson is aiming for the Paralympics – in para dressage.

The 25-year-old from Johnstonebridge won five gold metals in the T33 class at the Cerebral Palsy International Sport and Recreation Association (CPISRA) World Games in 2018 and is a multiple world record holder.

But she has opted to quit the sport after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) decided not to organise women’s T33 events at Paralympic level.

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