Shelly Woods
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Shelly Woods (born 4th June 1986) is an elite British Paralympic athlete from the town of Blackpool, Lancashire.
Shelly started using a wheelchair at the age of 11 after a heavy fall which injured her spinal cord. As a wheelchair athlete, she has achieved considerable success having won the Great North Run in 2005, setting a new British record for the half-marathon in the process. Shelly is also the national record holder over 5000 metres and won silver medals in her very first London Marathon in 2005 and again in 2006.
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