1074: New Year’s Honour For Visually Impaired Tokyo Gold Medal Winning Rower!

<div>Here at RNIB Connect Radio we were very pleased to see a number of blind and partially sighted people honoured in the 2022 New Year's Honours list including many Paralympics GB medal winners from the Tokyo Paralympic Games.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Connect Radio’s Toby Davey caught up with Ellen Buttrick MBE, visually impaired rower who along with the rest of the Paralympics GB Adaptive Rowing Coxed 4 Team won Gold in an amazing finish at the Tokyo Paralympic Games to find out from Ellen what being honoured with her MBE means to her. </div> <div><br> </div> <div>Ellen began by telling Toby about when she first heard about the MBE, how difficult it was for her trying to keep the news a secret until the announcement of the New Year’s Honours list on 1 January 2022 and how proud she felt being honoured with her MBE.  </div> <div><br> </div> <div>Ellen shared with Toby the reaction and good wishes from her family, friends and fellow rowers on the news of her MBE and what it means to her as a visually impaired athlete and rower.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Ellen also said that being honoured with her MBE would help to raise the profile of visually impaired sport and inspire other visually impaired people to get into sport too. </div> <div><br> </div> <div>Ellen ended by telling Toby about what is next for her as an adaptive rower and her thoughts about her next competition with the World  Championships in September 2022.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>If you are interested in finding out more about getting into rowing as a visually impaired person and more about adaptive rowing then do visit the British Rowing website via the following link and search for adaptive rowing - <a href="https://www.britishrowing.org">https://www.britishrowing.org</a><br> <br> <br> (Image shows RNIB logo. 'RNIB' written in black capital letters over a white background and underlined with a bold pink line, with the words 'See differently' underneath)</div>