• Events:

  T12 100m/200m

• Home Town:

  Stockport

• Lives:

  Loughborough

• Trains:

  Loughborough National Performance Centre

• Date Of Birth:

  24th March 1990

• Games Attended:

  London 12, Beijing 08

She joined the Macclesfield Harriers Athletics Club in 1999, bursting onto the international scene aged 16 at the 2006 World Championships in Assen, the Netherlands, when she won a silver medal in the T12 200m.

Libby made her Paralympic debut in Beijing in 2008, winning a silver medal in the T12 100m. Later that year, she was awarded third place in the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year.

At London 2012, Libby won her T12 100m heat in a world record time of 12.17 seconds to qualify for the semi-finals. However, in a competitive field, the record was broken in each of the next two heats and reduced to a time of 11.91. In the final, Libby ran a time of 12.13 to set a new personal best and take the silver medal.

In her second event, the T12 200m, Libby ran a lifetime best of 25.10 to come second in her heat, but she did not progress to the finals.

At her second Games, Libby was also joined by younger brother James, who was selected to ParalympicsGB to compete as a swimmer, winning bronze in the 100m Butterfly (S12).

Previously a student at the Royal Blind School in Edinburgh, Libby is now based in Loughborough on a full-time basis and as an athlete with a visual impairment she runs with a guide runner, Mikail Huggins.

In 2011, Libby was awarded a NVQ in Personal Training and Soft Tissue Therapy from Loughborough College. In the future, she has ambitions to set up her own sport therapy clinic.

Libby runs with a guide runner, Mikail Huggins.

Major Results

• 2012 London Paralympic Games
• T12 100m: silver
  T12 200m: 2nd (heat 3)

• 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games
• T12 100m: silver
  T12 200m: (heats)

• 2012 IPC Athletics European Championships, Stadskanaal, Holland
• T12 100m: gold
  T12 200m: gold

• 2011 IPC Athletics World Championships, Christchurch, New Zealand
• T12 100m: gold
  T12 200m: bronze