Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson to be peer in House of Lords

Winner of 11 Paralympic gold medals, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson was today announced as a peer in the House of Lords.

Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, who will now be a Baroness, will be a non-party-political peer.

Grey-Thompson is one of four new non-party-political peers recommended by the House of Lords Appointments Commission today and she has said she will focus her attention on the areas of sport, disability and youth.

She won a total of 16 Paralympic medals, 11 of them gold, across five Paralympic Games between 1988 and 2004. In 1993 she received an MBE for services to sport, in 2000 the OBE for services to sport and in 2005 she was made ‘Dame’ Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE for her services to sport.

ParalympicsGB congratulate her on this news.