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at the 2009 paralympic world cup in manchester rochelle woods great britain 800m , 1500m , 5000m , marathon blackpool , england athletics 4 june 1986 shelley woods.jpg shelly woods
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shelly woods

shelly woods -lrb- born 4 june 1986 -rrb- is an elite british paralympic athlete from the suburb of layton in blackpool , lancashire .
shelly started using a wheelchair at the age of 11 after a heavy fall which injured her spinal cord .
as a wheelchair athlete , she has achieved considerable success having won the great north run in 2005 , setting a new british record for the half-marathon in the process .
shelly is also the national record holder over 5,000 metres and won silver medals in her very first london marathon in 2005 and again in 2006 .
she played in the marathon .
shelly also holds the women 's course record for the reading half marathon , set in 2004 at 66 minutes 37 seconds .
on 22 april 2007 , shelly won the london marathon women 's wheelchair race for the first time in a record time of 1:50:41 .
representing team gb at the 2008 summer paralympics in beijing , woods won a bronze medal in the 5,000 metres wheelchair final at the second time of asking .
having originally been awarded silver for coming second on 8 september , a controversial protest arising from a multiple collision -lrb- six athletes crashed -rrb- in the final straight led to the race being re-staged four days later .
shelly later won a silver medal in the 1500m , finishing very strongly to beat switzerland 's edith hunkeler at the line , and came fourth in the marathon .
shelly also represented team gb at the 2012 summer paralympics in london where she won a silver medal in the women 's marathon .
she came 6th in the 1500m , 8th in the 5000m and came 3rd in the heats of the 800m but failed to qualify for the final .
