The Great Scottish Quiz: Scots At The Paralympics
The 2024 Paralympics started this week, so let’s test how much you know about the Scots competing at this year’s Games in Paris.
You have all been enjoying our quiz series online, so let’s keep testing that knowledge.
Do you know your stuff when it comes to the Scottish athletes competing at this year’s Paralympics in Paris?
Let’s find out!
7 Scots At The Paralympics Quiz Questions
1. At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, which Paralympic swimmer won a bronze medal in the women’s 400 metre freestyle S9 event?
2. In what year was the first official Paralympics was held?
3. Which Paralympian is also a TV presenter role on BBC’s Countryfile? At the Tokyo Games, she won bronze in the T53 100m and silver in the 400m?
4. Wheelchair tennis player Gordon Reid won singles bronze in Tokyo, 2021 and gold in Rio, 2016. What is his current world rank?
5. Which Paralympic runner won Gold in Rio at the 2016 Paralympic Games in 100m T11 where she broke the world record?
6. Hope Gordon is a Scottish paracanoeist competing at this year’s Summer Games in Paris, but she also competed in the 2022 Winter Paralympics. In which event did she represent Britain?
7. How many Scottish athletes are representing Britain at this year’s Paralympic Games in Paris?
Scots At The Paralympics Quiz Answers
How did you do? Check the correct answers below.
- Toni Shaw
- 1960
- Sammi (Samantha) Kinghorn
- fifth
- Libby Clegg
- Great Britain’s first ever female para Nordic skier
- Nine
