Shelly Woods

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Shelly Woods (born 4th June 1986) is an elite British Paralympic athlete from the town of Blackpool, Lancashire.

Shelly started using a wheelchair at the age of 11 after a heavy fall which injured her spinal cord. As a wheelchair athlete, she has achieved considerable success having won the Great North Run in 2005, setting a new British record for the half-marathon in the process. Shelly is also the national record holder over 5000 metres and won silver medals in her very first London Marathon in 2005 and again in 2006.

Shelly also holds the women's course record for the Reading Half Marathon, set in 2004 at 66 minutes 37 seconds.