Sara played basketball in squad ParalympicsGB,
At Euros, at Worlds and at Commonwealth Games,
In Manchester and in Melbourne, and had TT victory,
At the Paralympics in London with her team-mate.
Her boyfriend introduced her to table tennis nifty,
And she’s a paralytic, from a virus at the age of 15,
“Meeting people in the same situation as [myself]
was a real eye-opener…it opened up my life again.“
In 2013 Sara and Jane Campbell took the gold,
In the team event class 1-3 in Bayreuth, Germany,
And then she won bronze for herself in the singles,
To ride right onto 2 bronzes in Slovenia, Slovakia.
Illness and surgery were then her disappointing lot,
But she returned in the Lignano Master Open 2016,
To win a fine silver for the team. In Rio, the quarters,
For both singles and team matches. Born 12/04/1990.
Jane began playing table tennis in the year 2000,
And shortly after that she participated in a course,
Held at her work which started with goal-setting,
So right there she decided on the Paralympics.
The course leader opened them up and inspired,
With “If you can conceive it, you can achieve it” -
Words which changed Jane’s life, aims and efforts,
To achieving this fine goal of Paralympic success.
Jane was selected for the team ParalympicsGB,
In 2002 and won team bronze in ‘07, ’09 and ’10,
At the European Championships and the Worlds,
So in 2013 at Bayreuth Jane won the team gold.
At the Lignano Master Open held in Italy 2016,
Jane and the team finished second to win silver,
She broke her back in a car accident aged 15,
She trains in London, born on 18th August 1968.
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