S4 E16: Richard Whitehead: The four time world champion and Paralympic athlete with no legs

Big Fish with Spencer Matthews

Global

Entrepreneurship, Health & Fitness, Business

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🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Richard Whitehead is a world-class athlete. He’s a double gold and double silver Olympic medalist, a four time world champion and four time European champion. All this success with no legs.

Richard runs with prosthetic legs as he has a double knee congenital amputation - but this never stopped Richard from becoming the best in the world. In 2004, aged 27, he dreamt of running a marathon and signed up for the New York Marathon having never run a mile. With pure determination and discipline, Richard has become one of the most inspirational British athletes.

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0:48.1	Welcome to Big Fish with me, Spencer Matthews.
0:50.7	Each week I speak to inspirational people about how they reach the top of their game and their mindset for success.
0:59.0	Richard Whitehead MBE is a world-class athlete. He's a double gold and double silver Olympic medalist, a four-time world champion and four-time European champion.
1:09.0	He's also ran 79 marathons. All of this success with no legs.
1:14.6	In 2004, age 27, he dreamt of running a marathon and signed up for the New York Marathon having never ran a mile.
1:21.6	With pure determination and discipline, Richard has become one of the most inspirational British athletes.
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