Megan Shackleton
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| Born | 21 March 1999 Halifax, West Yorkshire, Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Para table tennis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability | Spinal cord injury | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Megan Shackleton (born 21 March 1999) is a British Paralympic table tennis player. She won bronze in the Women's Team – Class 4–5 at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo with Sue Bailey. She is also a World bronze medallist and a double European bronze medallist.[1]
Shackleton was once a competitive swimmer and focused on participating in the Olympics. However, she had a spinal fracture in a machinery-related accident, which left her reliant on a wheelchair at nine years old. She started playing para table tennis aged twelve when she went to visit an open public sporting event in Leeds and tried out table tennis. She then joined the GB National Para Table Tennis Team in 2013 when she was fourteen years old.[2]
References
- ^ "Megan Shackleton - IPTTC Profile". International Para Table Tennis Federation. 2 November 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
- ^ "Megan Shackleton - British Para Table Tennis". British Para Table Tennis. 2 November 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
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- 1999 births
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- Sportspeople from Sheffield
- English female table tennis players
- Paralympic table tennis players of Great Britain
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Great Britain
- Paralympic medalists in table tennis
- Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
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