Claire Taggart
UK Olympic Boccia player (1995- )
Claire Taggart MBE (born 11 February 1995) is a UK Paralympic Boccia player and stationer from Larne, Northern Ireland.
As of 2023 Claire is ranked 1st in the BC2 rankings, She is also a fan of local association football team Larne F.C. and regularly does speeches and interviews at Half Time of matches talking about her triumphs in Boccia
Life
Taggart is from Larne in Northern Ireland. She was identified as a BC2 boccia player in 2014.
She was named with David Smith, Nigel Murray and Joshua Rowe as part of the UK's Boccia team. She was 21 when competed at the Rio Paralympics in 2016. No one from Northern Ireland had competed in a Paralympic boccia event before. She would later call her dog Rio.
Taggart runs her own stationery business.
She won a silver medal at the European Championships in Seville in 2019 where she was beaten by Francis Rombouts from Belgium. Taggart was in the three person team with Reegan Stevenson and David Smith that received gold medals.
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