Ben Rowlings

Ben Rowlings (born 2 May 1996) is a British Paralympic athlete who competes in sprint and middle-distance events in the T34 classification.

Personal history Rowlings was born in Shrewsbury, England in 1996. He was delivered with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck causing oxygen starvation, which resulted in Rowlings developing cerebral palsy.

Athletics career Rowlings first became involved in competitive sport as a teenager when he took up swimming. He competed at national level but switched to wheelchair racing at the age of 15 after he went to a British Athletics talent identification day. After gaining his classification in 2011 as a T34 athlete, Rowlings began competing at national meets. By 2013 Rowlings was appearing at senior meets and entered his first IPC Grand Prix. The next year he represented Great Britain at his first major international event, the 2014 IPC Athletics European Championships in Swansea. There, he entered three events, taking the bronze medal in the 800m T34 in a time of 1:56.11. The following year, in the build-up to the Summer Paralympics in Rio, Rowlings attended the 2016 European Championships in Grosseto. He medaled in all three events, improving on all his times from Swansea two years ago. He won the bronze medal in the 100m, 400m and 800m T34.

Rowlings competed in athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.