About Jenny McLoughlin
Jenny McLoughlin (born 3 October 1991) is a British Paralympian track and field athlete competing mainly in T37 sprint events. She has represented Great Britain in the 2008 Summer Paralympics and in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. After moving to Wales at the age of 14, she became eligible to join the Wales team for the Commonwealth Games, winning silver in the T37 sprint in India. == History == McLoughlin was born in Stockport in England in 1991. McLoughlin, who has cerebral palsy, joined an athletics club when her family moved to Wales in 2005. She joined the Athletics team and switched her training ground to Cardiff in 2007, taking the UK School Games gold that year. In 2008 McLoughlin was selected to represent Great Britain in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing in both the 100m and 200m sprints in the T37 class. She failed to qualify out of the first heat in the 200m, but reached the 2nd heat in the 100m, finishing 7th. In 2009, she continued to compete across meets in Britain, and recorded two of her best times at the CP Sport Grand Prix in Nottingham; 15.14s in the 100m and 31.98 in the 200m. In 2010 as a resident of Wales, she was invited to join the Wales team at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
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