Noel Thatcher

Noel Thatcher
MBE
Personal information
EducationExhall Grange School
Occupation(s)British paralympic runner
(1984–2004)
Physiotherapist
Medal record
Para athletics
Representing  Great Britain
Paralympic Games
1988 Seoul B2 800m
1992 Barcelona B2 1500m
1996 Atlanta T11 5000m
1996 Atlanta T11 10000m
2000 Sydney T12 5000m
1984 New York/Stoke Mandeville B3 400m
1988 Seoul B2 1500m
1992 Barcelona B1-B3 4 × 400m relay
1992 Barcelona B2 800m
2000 Sydney T12 10000m

Noel Thatcher MBE is a British Paralympic runner who represented the United Kingdom at six Paralympic Games between 1984 and 2004, collecting a total of five gold medals. His two career highlights are winning gold and setting a world record at Barcelona in 1992, and winning the 5k race in Sydney in 2000, again setting a world record. At the 2004 Games in Athens, he carried the flag for the Great Britain team at the opening ceremony.

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