"Day1" ParaCoach Athletics for the Tokyo Paralympic Games (Aug23, 1 of 2)

Visit speedendurance.com/​​ and athleticscoaches.eu/ for more information. In this session, we discuss preparing athletes for Paralympic Performance.
Our Panellists include:
Dr Tabo Huntley - is an academic at Liverpool John Moores University with teaching duties covering strength and conditioning and coaching pedagogy. Tabo’s research covers coaching and athlete development in Paralympic sport and is the Director of the European ParaCoach project. He has also coached Para athletes to European and World Championship medals.
Frank Dick - is President of the European Athletics Association and is one of the UK’s most inspiring Business Speakers. Frank is considered one of the coaching greats having led the British Athletics Team during the “golden era” of multiple Olympic and World Championship gold medalists (1979 - 94). He now consults across a range of high performing environments.
Dr Suzanne Ferreira - Is one of South Africa’s most successful sprint coaches of Paralympic athletes. She has coached multi Paralympic medalists Ilse Hayes (T13 - Visually Impaired) and Fanie van der Merwe (T37 - Cerebral Palsy) and is now coaching a young crop of international stars.
Trevor Painter - has had the unique privilege of coaching his wife, World and European medalist, Jenny Medows. He is currently the British Athletics Pathway Team Leader and also coaches at his local club in Wigan (NW England). Trevor has had some experience coaching athletes with disability.
Peter Eriksson - is one of the world’s most decorated Paralympic coaches, having coached a number of multi-medalists in wheelchair racing events. Peter has also been the Head Coach of Olympic and Paralympic programmes in the UK and CA, and is now a high performance sport consultant in Canada.
Steffi Nerius - Is a retired German Olympic Silver Medalist and World and European Champion in the Javelin. She now coaches at TVS Bayer 04 and is the personal coach to Paralympic T64 long jumper and world record holder MarKus Rehm. Marcus nicknamed the ‘blade jumper’ recently extended his previous world record to 8.62m