birth_place awards team nationality article_title league birth_date college name career_start
london 2012 bbc sports personality helen rollason award great britain gbr gbr martine wright
 paralympics 30 september 1972 east london martine wiltshire -lrb- also known as martine wright -rrb- 2007
martine wright

martine wiltshire , maiden name martine wright -lrb- born in london , on 30 september 1972 -rrb- , is a british sitting volleyball player .
wright lost both of her legs in the aldgate underground explosion in the 7/7 london bombings in 2005 .
she lost 80 % of the blood in her body and was in a coma for ten days and had to undergo ten months of surgery following the injury .
as part of her rehabilitation she played wheelchair tennis before focusing on sitting volleyball .
wright was an initial member of the great britain women 's squad which began playing together in late 2009 , making her debut at the 2010 kent international tournament against paralympic champions , china .
in july 2012 she was picked to represent great britain 's women 's sitting volleyball team at the sitting volleyball event in the 2012 summer paralympics .
