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British athlete (born 1993)

For other people with similar names, see John Peacock (disambiguation).

Jonathan PeacockMBE (born 28 May 1993) is an English sprint runner.^[1][2][3] An amputee, Peacock won gold at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and 2016 Summer Paralympics, representing Great Britain in the T44men's 100 metres event.

He won a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Biography

Peacock was born in Cambridge, and grew up in the village of Shepreth.^[4][5] At age 5, he contracted meningitis, resulting in the disease killing the tissues in his right leg, which was then amputated just below the knee.

Wanting to play football, he was directed to a Paralympic sports talent day when he asked about disability sport in the hospital that fitted his prosthetic leg.^[6] His mother would carry him to school when his very short stump was too sore to wear his prosthetic leg.^[7] Peacock refers t