Age: 20

Hometown: Craughwell, Co. Galway

Club: Craughwell Athletic

Club Coach: Loic Bocquet

Disability: Spina bifida

Sport Class: T54

Shauna will make her Paralympic debut in Paris in August. She made her first appearance for Ireland at the Para Athletics World Championships last summer.

The rising para athletics star posted three personal bests over one weekend in June at the WPA Grand Prix in Switzerland pushing 11:07:20 in the 5k, 16.38 in the 100m and 3:17.22 in the 1500m. She then went on to break her personal best in the 1500m at the Daniela Jutzeier Memorial.

Bocquet took to the track in the 800m Wheelchair Women at the Wanda Diamond League in London this July and stormed home setting a new PB of 1:48.42 and a 4th place finish.

She is a student at Atlantic Technological University studying Sport and Exercise Science. She will be starting her third year in September.

Bocquet played a pivotal role in the development of the new athletics track in Craughwell. In October 2020, during Covid she did her first marathon (26 miles is 42km) on a 5km road loop, which she completed in two hours and 22 minutes as part of “The 42 Challenge” which raised €50,000, and funded the initial groundworks. A combination of further fundraising and government funding raised the rest of the €355,000 costs and the track was completed in three years in a place that describes itself as ‘the village that loves athletics’.

Schedule:

Day 3 – August 31st

T54 Women’s 5000m (final) ​9:36

Day 5 – September 2nd​

T54 1500m​ (heat) 12:05​

Day 6 – September 3rd​

T54 1500m​ (final) 11:20

Day 7 – September 4th

T54 100m​ (heat) 11:45

T54 100m​ (final) 19:43

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