Wheelchair rugby
Athletes from the UK and Denmark on why they love this mixed-gender, high-impact sport.
Kim Chakanetsa talks to Paralympic wheelchair rugby players from the UK and Denmark about competing at the top level in this mixed-gender, adrenaline-filled, high-impact sport.
Kylie Grimes is a Paralympic gold medallist, competing at three Paralympics for Great Britain. As a teenage athlete and show jumper, Kylie had a life-changing spinal injury in 2006 but her passion for sport remained. Within three years she was cycling 450 km, from Vietnam to Cambodia, to raise money for charity and was playing wheelchair rugby. In 2012 she qualified for her first Paralympics in London and helped Team GB win its first Paralympic gold in wheelchair rugby at Tokyo 2020.
Sofie Skoubo helped the Danish wheelchair rugby team qualify for their first Paralympics in Tokyo. She has Muscular Dystrophy and has also championed the special needs of para-athletes. Alongside her sports career she works for the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation on an initiative supporting disabled children access education.
