Crawley Paralympian Jodie Grinham MBE tells her story at awards ceremony - watch full Q&A here

The 31-year-old won gold and bronze medals at the Paris games last year and in the Q&A gave an insight into how she got into archery and how she hid her pregnancy in the build up to the Paralympics.

Jodie was born in Haverfordwest, in Wales and now lives in Crawley. She won silver at the Rio Paralympic Games in the compound mixed team event, where she was partnered with John Stubbs. She was born with a condition called Brachysyndactyly. She has a shortened left arm, an underdeveloped left shoulder, no fingers and half a thumb on her left hand.

When she took up archery, Jodie worked with her dad to develop a way to shoot that allowed her to grip the bow. She grew up in Crawley and was a law school student before focusing on being an elite athlete.

At the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, Jodie brought home two medals: individual compound open women's bronze, and compound open mixed team gold with Nathan Macqueen. As a result, she became the first ever pregnant Paralympic medallist, and she has been awarded an MBE for services to archery.

Also, this year at the European Para Cup, Jodie took the individual compound women's open title as well as the doubles compound open gold medal with Phoebe Paterson Pine. She and Phoebe also won the compound open doubles bronze medal at the European Para Championships.

After the Q&AQ with Manor Royal BID’s Steve Sawyer, Jodie helped present the awards celebrate the wonderful people and companies of Manor Royal.