Langholm mum Moira Beattie is celebrating a “surprise” double bronze medal win at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo by her son, Stephen Clegg.
Moira, who has not been able to join Stephen and his previous gold medal winning sister Libby in Tokyo because of the pandemic restrictions, has been cheering them on from home and said: “Everyone has been asking after them.”
Swimmer Stephen, aged 25, won the bronze medal in the S12 100m backstroke last Friday with a British record of 1:01.27, and then took his second bronze with a British record of 53.43 seconds in the S12 100m freestyle in the week.
And he said both came as a “surprise” as neither was his favourite event - the butterfly.
Meanwhile, his 31-year-old sprinter sister Libby – who has slight peripheral vision in her left eye and is registered blind – opened her Tokyo campaign in the heats of the Women’s T11 200m during the early hours of Thursday, with her guide, Chris Clarke.
