Samantha May Kinghorn (born 6 January 1996) is a British World Champion wheelchair racer[2] and TV presenter.
[4]Kinghorn is part of the Glasgow disability sports club Red Star,[5] where she is coached by Ian Mirfin MBE (new years honours list 2015/16).
[12] In 2017 she will debut over the marathon distance in an attempt to qualify for the 2018 Commonwealth Games [13] At the end of June 2021 she was in Manchester for the British Athletic Championships where she was second in a mixed classification 400m wheelchair race behind Hannah Cockroft and with Mel Woods third.
The others were Mel Woods, Libby Clegg, Jo Butterfield, Maria Lyle, Owen Miller, Derek Rae, Stef Reid and Ben Rowlings.
[15] Kinghorn was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to disability sport.
[16] Kinghorn represented Team GB at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, where she won a gold medal in the T53 Women's 100m, and silver in the 400m, 800m, and 1,500m.