A Knottingley Women who is confined to a wheelchair has just won 15 medals at disabled sports and is to represent Yorkshire at Stoke Manderville for the British Polio Fellowship. For many years she has been one of the chief organisers of Knottingley and District Physically Handicapped Club. 

Miss Christine Bugg, aged 31, of Richmond Avenue, Ferrybridge, has been disabled since the age of 15 months from polio, and a road accident, in which she was injured while in her wheelchair, as a young woman. Miss Bugg won five gold medals at the Humberside Disabled Sports Day for shot, throwing medicine balls, and throwing clubs, distance javelin and 60 metres wheelchair dash. At the same games she won a silver medal for the discus and a bronze for precision javelin. 

At the Yorkshire Regional Sports day for British Polio Fellowship, at Carnegie College, on Saturday, she gained another five gold medals in similar events to those at the Humberside sports, plus two more silver medals for discus and club, and a special medal for the most points in her group.