Alison Peasgood (born Alison Patrick; 1 October 1987) is a British paratriathlete. She competed in the women's PT5 class at the

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and won a silver medal guided by Hazel Smith.Alison Patrick
. rio2016.com She competed again at the

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partnered by Brooke Gillies.

Biography

Alison was born in 1987 with

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. She was blind at birth and gained some sight afterwards, but has never had full vision. Moreover, she has

nystagmus Nystagmus is a condition of involuntary (or voluntary, in some cases) Eye movement (sensory), eye movement. People can be born with it but more commonly acquire it in infancy or later in life. In many cases it may result in visual impairment, re ...

, which causes eye movement, and her albinism makes her, and particularly her eyes, sensitive to light. Alison worked as a physiotherapist at Victoria Hospital in

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until she moved to

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Paratriathlon Para triathlon is a variant of the triathlon for athletes with a physical disability. The sport is governed by World Triathlon (TRI; formerly known as the International Triathlon Union or ITU), and was first held as a Paralympic event at the 2016 S ...

became an

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sport at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. Patrick took the silver medal in the PT5 class behind Katie Kelly of Australia. Her guide for the race was Hazel Smith who is a Durham Engineer. They had trained for two years before the Olympics. They started out with a coffee together and went on to going on tandem bike rides together. Smith was already a tri-athlete having been reserve for the team at 2014 Commonwealth games. Alison was voted "West Fife's Sports Personality of the Year ". In March 2017 she competed at the

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in Los Angeles. She teamed up with cyclist Helen Scott and they gained two more medals. Their tandem came third in the 1 km time trial and they gained a silver at the tandem sprint behind Thornhill and Hall. She came fourth in the postponed Paralympics in Tokyo. She competed again at her third Paralympics in 2024 in Paris partnered by Brooke Gillies who made her paralympics debut. Gillies had moved down to Loughborough to train with her but their work together was delayed until Peasgood gave birth to a child. She was again fourth in Paris in an event won by Susana Rodriguez from Spain.

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