So in true style I had made a plan for post operation, of course I knew my wrist would be out of action, meaning transferring, wheeling my chair, driving etc would all be ‘different’ I just hadn’t planned for how different…. Waking up in recovery was bizarre, the last thing I remembered was the anaesthetist […]
I’ve always been a big planner, never happier than when I’ve got a plan to follow, albeit I’m happy to adapt it and be flexible as needed….as long as there’s another plan to implement! As an athlete you always have a plan about what you want to achieve and how you will go about it. […]
Emma Wiggs MBE became a seven-time World Champion by picking up gold with a dominant performance in the VL2 final at the 2018 Paracanoe World Championships. Emma also secured Silver in the Women’s KL2 and was part of a Great Britain team that topped the medal table at the championships with seven medals. Emma showed […]
Emma Wiggs MBE, Paralympic Gold Medallist and six-time World Championship Paracanoeist, has been nominated for the National Lottery Athlete of the Year Award 2018 in recognition of her outstanding sporting success alongside her work outside of competition. The annual National Lottery Awards look to find the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded projects, celebrating the inspirational people and […]
Emma Wiggs MBE continued her fine start to the season by becoming double European Champion at the 2018 Paracanoe European Championships in Belgrade this weekend. Emma secured first place in both the Women’s KL2 and Va’a VL2 making her a five-time European Champion and taking her total medal haul at European Championships to seven. She […]
Emma Wiggs is a Para-canoeist and Great British Meat Company ambassador who has had a quite phenomenal 12 months which has seen her retain the British, European and World Championship titles. Along with her Gold medal at the Rio 2016 Paralympics, this means she currently has the distinction of being a Grand Slam champion, a […]
EMERGE Sports Management athlete Emma Wiggs received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Chichester, at a graduation ceremony this past Sunday. Emma is a University of Chichester graduate herself having graduated with a degree in sports and exercise science in 2003, before qualifying as a teacher by gaining the Postgraduate Certificate in Education the […]
EMERGE Sport Management athlete Emma Wiggs MBE has made the shortlist for the Sunday Times Disability Sportswoman of the Year 2017. Her nomination comes after a phenomenal 12 months which has seen Emma retain her British, European and World Championship titles. Those titles, along with her Gold medal at the Rio 2016 Paralympics, means she […]
The Great British Meat Company, Britain’s #1 online butcher, has announced the UK’s #1 female paracanoeist Emma Wiggs MBE, as a brand ambassador. On Friday (24 August 2017) Emma completed the calendar Grand Slam of major Para-canoe titles as she took her fifth successive world KL2 gold in the Czech Republic, to make her the […]
EMERGE Paracanoeist Emma Wiggs MBE dominated the field to win her sixth ICF Paracanoe World Championship title in Racice, Czech Republic. Leaving the rest of the field in her wake, Emma took home the gold in record breaking 49.947 in the Women’s KL2 200m, her fifth gold in this event in successive years. Wiggs finished […]