Ellie Simmonds
At just 13 years old, Ellie Simmonds became the second youngest Paralympic player in British history to win medals of all colors at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics. The fact that she won two gold medals in her first game and followed her simple philosophy of "work hard and be yourself" won her the hearts of the British people. Her success also awarded her the BBC's Young Sports Personality of the Year Award in the same year. In February 2009, she became the youngest member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in history, and later that year she won six gold and one silver medals at the short-course IPC FINA World Championships in Rio de Janeiro. bottom. Brazil. Simmons was born in Acondroplacia (dwarfism) and was held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands in 2010. She won four gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal at the IPC World Swimming Championships in 2008 and 2009. I continued. At the 2011 I...