A GOLD medal-winning disabled York climber will be among a welcoming party who will greet the arrival of Yorkshire’s Paralympic Flame next month.
Sianagh Gallagher, 15, will be among City of York Council ’s welcoming party who will divide Yorkshire’s Paralympic Flame for the region’s five events in York on August 24.
Sianagh, a York High School pupil, earned the highest number of nominations to carry York’s Paralympic Flame and has recently secured a gold medal in the National Paraclimbing Series 2012 in London, competing in the upper and lower limb category.
The Paralympic Flame for Yorkshire and Humber will be lit at Trafalgar Square on August 24 before being taken by train to York Station. It will be carried to the lawn of the Royal York Hotel where it will be split into five.
The flames will be taken by local representatives to Leeds, Sheffield, Huddersfield and Beverley, while York’s will be paraded through the city on an open- topped bus.
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