![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/i-was-pushed-to-the-limit-on-celebrity-sas/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0_GettyImages-1337989807.jpg&description=Jonathan Broom-Edwards is the reigning Paralympic and world T44 high jump champion and is hoping to defend the latter title at this month's World Para Athletics Championships Becoming a world champion is extremely difficult, but defending that title - when expectations are high - is even tougher. That is the challenge that awaits Jonathan Broom-Edwards at this year's World Para Athletics Championships in Paris. It's the first time the biennial meet has been held since 2019, with the Covid pandemic forcing the 2021 edition to be pushed back. Broom-Edwards, who is also the Paralympic champion, won the T44 high jump event at the previous World Championships in Dubai and is hoping to defend his crown in Monday's final. The MBE competes in the T44 classification for athletes affected by a lower limb deficiency, leg length difference, impaired muscle power or impaired passive range of movement because he was born with talipes equinovarus - more commonly known as clubbed foot - in his left leg. Broom-Edwards has told Mirror Sport he's "looking forward to getting out there" ahead of Monday's final. "With my event not being in the Commonwealth Games, I haven't actually had a major championships since Tokyo, so I'm really excited. "I'm excited to be in front of a crowd again because we didn't get to experience that with Tokyo, and it's almost like a home games because we're so close [to home] it with being Paris." Like all champions, Broom-Edwards' story is fascinating. A basketballer and high jumper in his youth, the Brit only considered competing in the Paralympics after being inspired by London 2012. Silver medals at World Championships and Rio 2016 followed before his big break in Dubai four years ago. Then, in the delayed Tokyo Games in 2021, he struck gold. Now 35, Broom-Edwards knows he's in the back end of his career and wants to go out on a high (no pun intended) by beating his personal best of 2.15 metres. "I'm in a very different mindset now and I think I can thank){kind=link}
Jonathan Broom-Edwards is the reigning Paralympic and world T44 high jump champion and is hoping to defend the latter title at this month’s World Para Athletics Championships
Becoming a world champion is extremely difficult, but defending that title – when expectations are high – is even tougher.
That is the challenge that awaits Jonathan Broom-Edwards at this year’s World Para Athletics Championships in Paris. It’s the first time the biennial meet has been held since 2019, with the Covid pandemic forcing the 2021 edition to be pushed back.
Broom-Edwards, who is also the Paralympic champion, won the T44 high jump event at the previous World Championships in Dubai and is hoping to defend his crown in Monday’s final. The MBE competes in the T44 classification for athletes affected by a lower limb deficiency, leg length difference, impaired muscle power or impaired passive range of movement because he was born with talipes equinovarus – more commonly known as clubbed foot – in his left leg.
Broom-Edwards has told Mirror Sport he’s “looking forward to getting out there” ahead of Monday’s final. “With my event not being in the Commonwealth Games, I haven’t actually had a major championships since Tokyo, so I’m really excited.