Elizabeth Gemma Clegg (born 24 March 1990)[2] is a British Paralympic sprinter and tandem track cyclist who has represented both Scotland and Great Britain at international events.
Clegg is sponsored by the property marketing business ESPC where she participated in work experience in 2008 during her time at The Royal Blind School.
[25] Due to illness, she was unable to defend her European titles in Swansea shortly after the Commonwealth games.
Clegg was late addition to the British team for the postponed 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo on 21 July 2021.
[31] In June 2022 she appeared as guest presenter on an episode of The Gadget Show while Georgie Barrat was on maternity leave.
In October 2022, Clegg and James Ball earned a gold medal for Great Britain in the mixed team sprint event at the 2022 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships.
Clegg was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours list for services to athletics and charity.
In April 2019 Clegg gave birth to a son, Edward, via emergency C-Section [39] In September 2019 it was announced she would be the first blind contestant to star in the reality TV series Dancing on Ice.
In January 2024, Clegg announced to her followers on Instagram that she had split from her husband and was now a ‘single mum’ stating that “2023 was one of the hardest years”.
[41] She has two brothers, James who won bronze in the pool at London 2012 Paralympics, and Stephen who became the first para swimmer in his class to break 28 seconds in the men’s 50m backstroke in 2023 and won the gold medal in the 100m backstroke at the Paris 2024 Paralympics, breaking the world record in the process.