Maggie McEleny
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Margaret McIntosh ('Maggie') McEleny MBE (born 1965), also known as "Mad Maggie" for her unshakable desire to compete is a Scottish swimmer. She has paraplegia and epilepsy due to a head injury at age 11, which left her blind for a while. She competed in four Summer Paralympics from 1992 to 2004. In her career, McEleny has won three gold, five silver, and seven bronze medals at the Paralympics.
Awards
McEleny was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2000 Birthday Honours for services to disabled swimming.[1]
She was inducted into the Scottish Swimming Hall of Fame in 2018.[2][3]
She was inducted into the Scottish Women in Sport Hall of Fame in 2018.[4]
References
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External links
- Template:Scottish Sports Hall of Fame
- Template:IPC profile
- National Portrait Gallery: Margaret McIntosh ('Maggie') McEleny
- McEleny strikes silver as Team GB impress again. Graham Wood, 24 September 2004
- Crossing the finish line. Jessica Kiddle, 24 March 2007
- Great Britain's medallists: All the British medals from the 2004 Paralympic Games. BBC Sport.
- Scottish Institute of Sport: Goldzone 2004. (PDF)
- Sports Review 2000. BBC Sport.
- Greatest British Olympic and Paralympic moments Daily Telegraph.
- Pages with script errors
- 1965 births
- Living people
- Scottish female freestyle swimmers
- Paralympic swimmers for Great Britain
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Great Britain
- Paralympic silver medalists for Great Britain
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Great Britain
- World record holders in paralympic swimming
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in swimming
- People with epilepsy
- British female freestyle swimmers
- British female medley swimmers
- British female breaststroke swimmers
- S5-classified para swimmers
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Scottish female breaststroke swimmers
- Scottish female medley swimmers
- Sportspeople from Port Glasgow
- 20th-century Scottish sportswomen