Channel 4 has an impressive list of presenters, pundits and commentators for their action-packed coverage of the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris.
It has been a busy summer with the European Championship and Olympic Games providing triumph and heartbreak in equal measure.
The summer of sport isn’t over yet, however. Ellie Simmonds, winner of eight Paralympic medals, is making her presenting debut with over 1,300 hours of live sport to be broadcast on Channel 4, More 4 and Channel 4’s YouTube channels over the 11 days of action.
Here’s who will be guiding you through all the action on TV.
Clare Balding
Balding’s busy year, which has seen her present the likes of Wimbledon and the Olympics, sees the highly experienced broadcaster return for yet another Paralympics.
Billy Monger
Monger had both legs amputated after a horror crash in an F4 British Championship race at Donnington Park in 2017, and has worked as a pundit for Channel 4’s coverage of F1 since 2019.
Rose Ayling-Ellis
Ayling-Ellis, who won Strictly Come Dancing in 2021 and was an actress on EastEnders, is making history as the first deaf presenter to cover the Paralympics.
JJ Chalmers
Chalmers was serving as a Royal Marine in Afghanistan in 2011 when he suffered severe injuries in an IED blast, losing two fingers along with facial injuries and a disintegrated right elbow. He won three medals competing in the Invictus Games in 2014 and has subsequently gone on to present multiple TV shows.
Ellie Simmonds
Simmonds was the youngest member of the Paralympics GB team, aged just 13, when she won two gold medals at the Beijing games in 2008, going on to win six more medals – with three of those being gold.
Ade Adepitan
One of the first physically disabled TV presenters in the UK, Adepitan has become a household name since winning bronze with GB in the wheelchair basketball at Athens 2004.
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
Baroness Grey-Thompson’s stellar sporting career includes winning 16 Paralympic medals (11 gold), the London Marathon six times and holding over 30 world records. She was the very first female wheelchair user in the world to present on TV.
Dame Sarah Storey
Dame Storey’s 28 Paralympic medals, with 17 being gold, make her the most successful British Paralympian of all time. When not competing in Paris, her ninth Paralympic Games, she will be providing analysis as a pundit for Channel 4.
Paralympic presenters, pundits and commentators in full
Paralympics presenters
Billy Monger
Vick Hope
JJ Chalmers
Clare Balding
Rose Ayling-Ellis
Ade Adepitan
Ellie Simmonds
Josh Pugh
Gaz Choudhry
Ed Jackson
Lee McKenzie
Fats Timbo
Jodie Ounsley
Ellie Robinson
Lenny Rush
Milly Pickles
Jordan Jarrett-Bryan
George Robinson
Paralympics pundits
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
Dame Sarah Storey
Libby Clegg
Steve Brown
Danny Crates
Louise Hunt
Jayant Mistry
Paralympics commentators
Danny Crates
Libby Clegg
Sophia Warner
Nathan Stephens
Kath Merry
Ron McIntosh
Rob Walker
Jon Gildea
Joanna Rowsell
Simon Brotherton
Erin Orford
Lee McKenzie
Steven Wilde
Liz Johnson
Paul Noble
Marc Woods
Claire Griffiths
Dan Strange
Steve Brown
Jim Roberts
Claire Thomas
Louise Hunt
Jayant Mistry
Kat Downes
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