Eden Rainbow-Cooper
Eden Rainbow-Cooper (born 17 May 2001) is an elite English Paralympic athlete from Portsmouth. Rainbow-Cooper is a T54 athlete who competes as a wheelchair racer.
Eden near the halfway point of the 2024 Boston Marathon, which she won | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 17 May 2001 Portsmouth, England | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | England | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair racing | ||||||||||||||
| Disability | Sacral agenesis | ||||||||||||||
| Disability class | T54 | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Weir Archer Academy | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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She was born with sacral agenesis. Rainbow-Cooper began wheelchair racing in 2013 and is part of Weir Archer Academy. In the 2022 Commonwealth Games, she won a silver medal in the marathon (T54) event. She went on to come first in London's Big Half, equalling Manuela Schär’s course record for the women's wheelchair race. In September 2022, she won the women's wheelchair race in the Great North Run. In April 2024, she won the women's wheelchair race in the Boston Marathon, becoming the first woman from Great Britain to do so.
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