:Sabrina Fortune
{{short description|British Paralympic athlete}}
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| name = Sabrina Fortune
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| nationality = British
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1997|05|25}}
| birth_place = Chester
| hometown = Wrexham, Wales
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| country = Wales, Great Britain
| sport = Para athletics
| event = Shot put
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| disability = Intellectual impairment
| disability_class = F20
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| club = Deeside Amateur Athletic Club
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| coach = Ian Robinson
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| paralympics = 2012
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{{MedalSport|Women's para athletics}}
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{{MedalCompetition|Paralympic Games}}
{{MedalGold|2024 Paris|Shot put F20}}
{{MedalBronze | 2016 Rio | Shot put F20}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Para Athletics Championships}}
{{MedalGold | 2019 Dubai|Shot put F20}}
{{MedalGold | 2023 Paris|Shot put F20}}
{{MedalGold | 2024 Kobe|Shot put F20}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Para Athletics Championships}}
{{MedalGold | 2018 Berlin | Shot put F20}}
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Sabrina Fortune (born 25 May 1997) is a British Paralympic track and field athlete from Wales competing in category F20 throwing events. Fortune won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the shot put,{{cite web |url=http://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=81906 |title=Sabrina Fortune |publisher=thepowerof10.info |accessdate=10 September 2016}} a gold medal at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships, also in shot put, and a gold medal at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in shot put. {{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/articles/ceq5p5l0ng4o.amp |title=Cockroft and Fortune start GB gold rush in Paris |publisher=BBC |accessdate=2 September 2024}}
History
Fortune, who comes from Bryn-y-baal, Mold in north Wales, has speech dyspraxia which makes communication difficult for her.{{cite web |url=https://www.paralympic.org/sabrina-fortune |title=Sabrina Fortune |website=Paralympic.org |publisher=International Paralympic Committee |access-date=5 November 2020}} Her condition resulted in a mild intellectual impairment. She attended Argoed High School,{{cite web |last1=Wyn-Williams |first1=Gareth |title=Flintshire shot putter wins Paralympic medal |url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/flintshire-shot-putter-wins-paralympic-11869362 |website=North Wales Live |date=10 September 2016 |access-date=2 September 2024}}
after which she studied hospitality management at Coleg Cambria in Wrexham.
Athletics career
Fortune became inspired to take up athletics after watching her brother compete. She joined a club at the age of eleven in 2008 and began competing at local meets. In 2014, she travelled to São Paulo to take part in the Brazilian Paralympic School Games, winning gold in the F20 shot put. That year she also took part in her first IPC Grand Prix, in Grosseto, Italy. The following year Fortune was selected for the Great Britain team to compete at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha, entering the shot put event. Her throw of 12.14m saw her finish just outside the medal positions in fourth place.
In 2016, in the buildup the Rio Paralympics, Fortune travelled back to Grosseto, this time to compete in the 2016 IPC Athletics European Championships. A distance of 12.14m saw her again finish fourth in the shot put. Fortune's results saw her selected for Team GB at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, competing in the shot put. She competed in the final on 10 September throwing a personal best of 12.94 m to win the bronze medal, becoming the first Welsh athlete of the games to reach the podium.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/37329466 |title=Rio 2016 Paralympics: Sabrina Fortune wins first Welsh medal |publisher=BBC Sport |date=10 September 2016 |access-date=10 September 2016}}
Fortune won the gold medal in shot put F20 at 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships in Berlin, with a championship-record throw of 13.30 m.{{cite web |title=Berlin 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships - Event Overview - Women's Shot Put F20 |url=https://www.paralympic.org/berlin-2018/results/info-live-results/atbe18/eng/zz/engzz_athletics-event-overview-women-s-shot-put-f20.htm |website=Paralympic.org |publisher=International Paralympic Committee |access-date=19 July 2019}}
Fortune won the gold medal in shot put F20 at 2019 World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai, with a championship-record throw of 13.91m.{{cite web |title=Fortune's focus secures dramatic maiden World title |url=http://www.uksportsassociation.org/fortunes-focus-secures-dramatic-maiden-world-title/ |website=UK Sports Association |access-date=5 November 2020}}{{dead link|date=September 2024}}
In June 2021 she was among the first dozen athletes chosen for the UK athletics teams at the postponed 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo.{{Cite web |date=23 June 2021 |title=British team for Paralympics starts to take shape |url=https://athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/british-team-for-paralympics-starts-to-take-shape-1039946362/ |access-date=24 June 2021 |website=AthleticsWeekly.com}} She came fifth in the 2020 Paralympic F20 Shot Put, with a distance of 13.56m.{{cite web |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/resPG2020-/pdf/PG2020-/ATH/PG2020-_ATH_C73S_ATHWSHOTPUT-20010-----FNL-000100--.pdf |title=F20 results |work=Tokyo 2020 Paralympics |publisher=Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games |access-date=29 August 2021 |archive-date=29 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829122652/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/resPG2020-/pdf/PG2020-/ATH/PG2020-_ATH_C73S_ATHWSHOTPUT-20010-----FNL-000100--.pdf |url-status=dead}}
At the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships Sabrina won gold in the F20 shot put.{{Cite web |date=2023-07-11 |title=Para Athletics World Championships: Sabrina Fortune retains T20 shot put title in Paris |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/disability-sport/66164489.amp |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=BBC Sport |language=en-gb}}
In the lead up to the 2024 Summer ParalympicsSabrina broke her own world record in the F20 shot put, with a throw of 14.83m.{{Cite web |last=Cuesta |first=Dianna |date=2024-07-22 |title=Sabrina Fortune Smashes Own World Record in Paris Warm-Up - Dai Sport |url=https://www.dai-sport.com/sabrina-fortune-smashes-own-world-record-in-paris-warm-up/ |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=www.dai-sport.com |language=en-GB}}
At the 2024 Summer Paralympics, Sabrina won the gold medal in the F20 shot put, with another world record of 15.12m.{{Cite web |last=Wales |first=The clubs where Welsh Paralympians were made {{!}} Sport |date=2024-02-09 |title=The clubs where Welsh Paralympians were made |url=https://www.sport.wales/media-centre/latest-news/community-clubs-paralympic-athletes/ |access-date=2024-10-02 |website=Sport Wales |language=en}}
References
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External links
- {{World Athletics|great-britain-ni/sabrina-fortune-14847500}}
- {{British Athletics|sabrina-fortune}}
- {{Power of 10|81906}}
- {{ParalympicsGB|sabrina-fortune}}
- {{IPC}}
- [https://www.paralympic.org/en/paris-2024-paralympics/athlete/sabrina-fortune_1907698 Sabrina Fortune] at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympics ([https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024-paralympics/athlete/sabrina-fortune_1907698 alternate link], [https://paris2024.rtve.es/es/paris-2024-paralimpicos/atleta/sabrina-fortune_1907698 alternate link 2])
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