Daring To Finish Sas Challenge Was Like My Gold Medal Win

Lauren’s joy after TV triumph

- Mark Jefferies

Paralympian Lauren Steadman says her Celebrity SAS triumph gave her the same sense of satisfaction as becoming a world champion athlete.

Lauren and DJ Locksmith, from the band Rudimental, were the only two to pass the full course in last night’s final episode, after 48 hours of hell in the Inner Hebrides.

Afterwards she compared it to the elation she felt winning her swimming gold medal at the World Championships in Rio in 2009.

Lauren, 27, who has also had success as a paratriathlete, said: “It was totally different from anything I’ve done… but a similar feeling to when I won my first world title.

“Obviously, I’ve worked for years to win a world title, but it did feel as though I exhausted all sources of energy I had in those eight days.