KL3 Grand Slam holder Laura Sugar MBE has been shortlisted for the British Elite Athletes’ Association’s (BEAA) Athlete of the Month for June.
The winner will be decided by BEAA members – elite British athletes who receive funding from UK Sport’s World Class Programme.
Laura is in contention after she triumphed at the ECA Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe European Championships. The reigning Paralympic and world champion, cruised to victory in the Czech Republic, winning by a margin of 1.747 seconds to claim her second continental title and reinforce her status as the leading women’s KL3 athlete.
Elite athletes can vote for their Athlete of the Month by heading to their latest BEAA email, with the winner to be confirmed shortly.