Jason Smyth

Age: 22

Sport: Athletics

Discipline: 100m and 200m sprint

Coach: Stephen Maguire

Jason is a full time athlete and is a double Gold Paralympian based on his magnificent success at the Beijing Paralympic where he won T13 100m (10.62sec) and 200m (21.43sec) events.

Jason was invited to train with an elite group of sprinters in Florida and along with his coach Stephen Maguire and now splits his year between Florida and Northern Ireland.

Jason’s long term goal is to retain his Paralympic title in 2012 and to become the first track athlete to compete in the Paralympics and Olympics in the same year.