Claire Taggart

Claire Taggart (born 11 February 1995) is a UK Olympic Boccia player and stationer from Northern Ireland.

Claire Taggart
Born11 February 1995 (1995-02-11) (age 27)
Northern Ireland
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Occupationstationer and boccia player
Known forBoccia Paralympian

Life

Taggart is from Larne in Northern Ireland. She was identified as a BC2 boccia player in 2014.[1]

She was named with David Smith, Nigel Murray and Joshua Rowe as part of the UK's Boccia team.[2] She was 21 when competed at the Rio Paralympics in 2016. No one from Northern Ireland had competed in a Paralympic boccia event before. She would later call her dog Rio.[3]

Taggart runs her own stationery business.[3]

She won a silver medal at the European Championships in Seville in 2019[3] where she was beaten by Francis Rombouts from Belgium. Taggart was in the three person team with Reegan Stevenson and David Smith that received gold medals. The three of them beat the team from Slovakia 4–3 in the final.[4] During the COVID-19 pandemic she had to keep fit by training in her hallway for four months.[3]

References
  1. "Claire Taggart - Medical and clinical orthotics". DM Orthotics. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  2. "| UK Sport". www.uksport.gov.uk. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  3. "Great Britain Squad". Boccia UK. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  4. "Larne star Claire Taggart achieves double boccia medal success at European Championships". belfasttelegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 25 June 2021.


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