The multiple-Paralympic medallist has been involved in every Paralympic Games since 1964 and won ten gold medals for Great Britain during her time as an athlete.

From 1964 to 1992, the wheelchair athlete won medals in athletics, basketball, swimming, table tennis, and fencing across eight Paralympic Games.

She has won a total of 17 Paralympic medals, 10 of them gold, although a mis-calculation in the scoring of the pentathlon in Tel Aviv 1968 prevented Walton from securing the 11th career gold medal that would have put her alongside Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson and Dame Sarah Storey.

In 1970 Walton received the Bill McGowran Trophy for Disabled Sports Personality of the Year from the Sports Journalists' Association.

Caz Walton has been involved in every Paralympic Games since 1964 ©Getty Images



In 1989 Walton was placed on secondment to the BPA by BP, the National Paralympic Committee's founding partner.

Since then, Walton has gone on to play a key role in the development of the BPA, bringing her experience as an athlete to the fore to ensure that the body continues to work as an athlete-focused organisation.

During her time at the BPA, Walton has retained her involvement with wheelchair fencing and assumed the role of team manager for the fencing team in 1996, 2000 and 2008.

She currently holds the position of Athlete Services Officer and also plays a "really important role" in advising on classification for the BPA.

In 2010 she was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for her services to disability sport.

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