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Shelly Oxley-Woods

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Date of Birth

4 June 1986

Age

37

Place of Birth

Lytham St Annes

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16 years on from her Team England debut, wheelchair racing legend Shelly Oxley-Woods returned to the Commonwealth Games stage.

And it was a third place finish in the women's T54 marathon, with a time of 2:03.39.

Woods, who suffered a spinal cord injury falling 20 feet from a tree aged 11, first hit the headlines in 2005 when she beat Tanni-Grey Thompson at the London Marathon.

She won 1500m silver and 5000m bronze at the 2008 Paralympics in Beijing and marathon silver at London 2012.

Woods took a break from the sport to become a mother in 2017 and returned to exclusively focus on road racing in 2019.

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In front of a 30,000 strong crowd at the newly refurbished Alexander Stadium, Team England picked up a host of medals at Birmingham 2022.

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