Hannah Lucy Cockroft MBE (born 30 July 1992) is a British wheelchair racer specialising in sprint distances in the T34 classification. She holds the Paralympic and world records for the 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres, 800 meters and 1500 metres in her classification. Competing for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, she won two gold medals. Hannah won 3 further Gold medals at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games
Cockroft was born on 30 July 1992 in Halifax, West Yorkshire. She suffered two cardiac arrests at birth that damaged two different parts of her brain. She was left with a disability that affected her balance and mobility, problems with her fine motor skills, weak hips and deformed feet and legs. Her parents were told that she would never be able to walk, talk, do anything for herself or live past her teenage years.