十代の少年少女 定期的に 規模s 100ft 塀で囲むs after becoming first one-武装した person to join Team GB's paraclimbing team

  • Teenage sensation 始める,決めるs sights on gold for world 選手権s
  • Sianagh Gallagher has 打ち勝つ 厳しい disability on the road to success
  • The 16-year-old has just 完全にするd her first 競争 for Team GB
  • She has high ambitions to one day compete in the Paralympics


When Sianagh Gallagher was born 10 weeks premature, doctors told her mother to 準備する herself for the worst.

The こども had a string of 複雑化s 含むing just one arm, no collarbone, a curved spine, 新たな展開d pelvis, dislocated 膝 and both feet 直面するing the wrong way.

But にもかかわらず the 早期に 後退, Sianagh has beaten all the 半端物s to become the first one-武装した person to join Team GB's paraclimbing team.

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High achiever: Teenager Sianagh Gallagher is the first person to be picked for Team GB's paralympic rock climbing team

High achiever: 十代の少年少女 Sianagh Gallagher is the first person to be 選ぶd for Team GB's paralympic 激しく揺する climbing team

Still only 16, she is now 階級d fourth of all paraclimbers in the whole of Europe and is the only person to be climbing with just one arm, and 定期的に 規模s the dizzying 高さs of 100ft - the 同等(の) of a 10-storey building.

In May was 選ぶd to be part of Team GB's paraclimbing team in May competing in teams with people who have mental and physical disabilities.

And last month she competed her first 競争 against the world's best paraclimbers in Chamonix, フラン.

Sianagh said: 'I keep forgetting that I'm part of Team GB, because I didn't think it would happen.

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Looking up: Rock climber Sianagh competed in her first competition for Team GB in Chamonix in France last month Looking up: Rock climber Sianagh competed in her first competition for Team GB in Chamonix in France last month

Looking up: 激しく揺する 登山者 Sianagh competed in her first 競争 for Team GB in Chamonix in フラン last month

Fighter: Doctors warned Sianagh's mother to prepare herself for the worst when her determined daughter was born 10 weeks premature
Fighter: Doctors warned Sianagh's mother to prepare herself for the worst when her determined daughter was born 10 weeks premature

闘士,戦闘機: Doctors 警告するd Sianagh's mother to 準備する herself for the worst when her 決定するd daughter was born 10 weeks premature

'I really don't think of myself as an inspiration because I do stuff and get on with it but it makes me really happy people think that.

'I started at the age of 10 as my 最初の/主要な school had a climbing club starting, so I put my 指名する 負かす/撃墜する.

'I didn't think I could do it, but the first time I did it I managed to get to the 最高の,を越す.

'I've 改善するd やめる a bit over the past few years because it's become serious, so I've started training about five days a week.'

She 追加するd: 'I'd like to come first in world 選手権s next year, and I'd just like to carry on competing, really. I'm hoping to make it to the Paralympics 結局.

'My mum is so important to me, if it wasn't for her I wouldn't have made it to any 競争s and got to where I am now.'

Learning the ropes: Sianagh is given some mentoring by her trainer Jonathan Richardson

Learning the ropes: Sianagh is given some 助言者ing by her trainer Jonathan Richardson

Hanging in there: Sianagh refused to let her disability get in the way of enjoying life and took up the extreme sport of rock climbing when she was just 10
Hanging in there: Sianagh refused to let her disability get in the way of enjoying life and took up the extreme sport of rock climbing when she was just 10

Hanging in there: Sianagh 辞退するd to let her disability get in the way of enjoying life and took up the extreme sport of 激しく揺する climbing when she was just 10

Although doctor's had told her mother, Jade, to 準備する herself for the worst when Sianagh was born after just 30 weeks, she 辞退するd to give up on her baby and believed 深い 負かす/撃墜する the こども would 生き残る.

When she reached the age of 10 s he started climbing, and has 証明するd to be an inspiration to everyone she has 遭遇(する)d by not 許すing her disability to get in the way.

Mrs Gallagher, 38, said: 'She's never let things bother her, and I think that's because we never wrapped her up in cotton wool while she was little.

'I never stepped in and helped her to tie her shoelaces, because I knew that in some point in her life she would have to do it for herself.

'From a really young age she always 手配中の,お尋ね者 to be 独立した・無所属.

Modest: Sianagh says she does not see herself as an 'inspiration' although the moniker does make her happy

Modest: Sianagh says she does not see herself as an 'inspiration' although the moniker does make her happy

'Her disability has never been an 問題/発行する - she was riding a bike at the same age as everyone else, though she used to go 一連の会議、交渉/完成する in circles at first.'

Sianagh is keen to keep a healthy lifestyle to keep herself in 最高の,を越す 形態/調整, even turning 負かす/撃墜する junk food and takeaways that most 十代の少年少女s love.

Mrs Gallagher said: 'We have a multigym in the 前線 room, and the whole house has been adapted into a training ground.

'We do have a takeaway from time to time, but she will say to me "You do know that's a heart attack in a box, don't you Mum?"'

Sianagh has not 設立する it 平易な to get 基金ing for her practices and 競争s and relies a lot on 寄付s from her JustGiving page to help her 基金 her dream.

Grounded: Sianagh does not eat junk food and is keeping herself as fit as possible as she sets her sights on gold in next year's world championships

Grounded: Sianagh does not eat junk food and is keeping herself as fit as possible as she 始める,決めるs her sights on gold in next year's world 選手権s

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