Disability Sport Wales
Chwaraeon Anabledd Cymru
The Federation of Disability Sport Wales (FDSW) is a pan-disability National Governing Body of Sport Which aims to promote and develop quality sports opportunities
MEGAN TARGETS LONDON 2012 GAMES
Megan John is currently training with the Federation for Disability Sport Wales with a view towards competing in the 2012 Paralympic Games as a rower.
Sixteen-year-old Megan is registered blind and has anirridia, photophobia, nystagmas and cataracts.
She currently attends Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Plasmawr in Cardiff where she first began to row as a year eight pupil.
Despite her disability, she gained 12 A-C grades at GCSE last summer and is now studying A-levels and hopes to continue her education at university.
Megan’s father, Phillip John was born in Dale and attended secondary school in Haverfordwest and Tenby during the 1960s.
Megan is the granddaughter of the late Leslie John, former landlord of the Pembroke Yeoman, Haverfordwest.
She is the proud winner of three gold medals for indoor rowing which she won last season. She is the Welsh schools indoor rowing under-16 champion and also the British junior ladies champion — LTA (Legs, Trunk and Arms category). The latter medal was won at the British indoor rowing championships held at the NEC in Birmingham.
Megan rows every Wednesday at Llandaff Rowing Club with her school and at weekends is coached at the Cardiff Watersports Centre.
She is a frequent visitor to Pembrokeshire where she visits her grandmother, aunt and uncles in Haverfordwest and Tenby.
From Western Telegraph
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