Eden Rainbow-Cooper | |
Sport: | Wheelchair racing |
Disability: | Sacral agenesis |
Disability Class: | T54 |
Coach: | Arno Mul (2023 - present) |
Club: | Red Velvet Racing Team |
Birth Date: | 17 May 2001 |
Birth Place: | Portsmouth, England[1] |
Eden Rainbow-Cooper (born 17 May 2001) is an elite English Paralympic athlete from Portsmouth. Rainbow-Cooper is a T54 athlete who competes as a wheelchair racer.[2]
She was born with sacral agenesis. Rainbow-Cooper began wheelchair racing in 2013 and is since 2023 coached by the Dutch coach Arno Mul. From 2013 to 2023 she was a part of Weir Archer Academy.[3] In the 2022 Commonwealth Games, she won a silver medal in the marathon (T54) event.[4] She went on to come first in London's Big Half, equalling Manuela Schär’s course record for the women's wheelchair race.[5] In September 2022, she won the women's wheelchair race in the Great North Run.[6]
In April 2024, she won the women's wheelchair race in the Boston Marathon, becoming the first woman from Great Britain to do so.[7] [8]