Gerry O'Rourke

Who is Gerry O'Rourke?

Gerry O'Rourke is a former Irish wheelchair athlete. At the 1984 Summer Paralympics, he won a silver medal in the 400 metre wheelchair race and a bronze in both the 100 and 800 metre races. In 1986, he won the fourth London Marathon men's wheelchair race, defeating the 1985 and 1987 champion Chris Hallam after Hallam was slowed by illness and mechanical problems. He is also a three-time winner of the Dublin Marathon. In 2001, O'Rourke successfully sued a travel company which had booked him and his family in a second-floor apartment during a vacation in Spain despite his being in a wheelchair.