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To celebrate ParalympicsGB’s first gold medal win at the London 2012 Paralympic Games Royal Mail has produced a stamp to honour Sarah’s gold medal triumph in the Cycling: Track, Women’s C5 Pursuit.

The gold medal win makes Sarah the first member of ParalympicsGB to appear on Royal Mail’s Paralympic gold medal stamps.

Royal Mail is delighted to be issuing these very special gold medal stamps to recognise our Paralympic champions. This will be the first time ever that a set of stamps has been issued to celebrate Paralympic gold medallists from the host country.

On 29 August, Royal Mail became the first postal administration whose country is hosting the Games to issue a set of stamps to celebrate the start of the Paralympic Games.

The Paralympic gold medal stamps will be on sale within a maximum of five working days in over 500 Post Offices across the UK. Sarah’s will be available tomorrow (31st Aug) in the 500 Post Offices.

Residents of Sarah’s home town of Disley will be able to buy the stamps in the Post office in Market Street, Disley.

Customers can also purchase the stamps from tomorrow at www.royalmail.com/goldmedalstamps and from Royal Mail’s customer service centre on 08457 641 641 located at Tallents House, 21 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh, EH12 PPB.

An additional 4,700 post offices will receive the Gold medal stamps within a week.

Royal Mail Group Press Office

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Tel: 020 7250 2468
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Notes to Editors

• For more information and the full list of the Post Office branches selling 2012 Gold medal stamps visit www.postoffice.co.uk.
• To find your nearest branch selling 2012 Gold medal stamps, select the branch finder option. Enter your postcode or town and select “Gold Medal Next Day Stamps or Gold Medal Weekly Stamps” from the service required drop-down menu.
• The ParalympicsGB gold medal stamps are presented for purchase as a sheet of two First Class stamps for £1.20. The sheet carries additional information on the winning athlete or athletes. The stamps can also be bought individually at Post Offices for the standard 60p First Class price.
• For information on Royal Mail’s range of Olympic and Paralympic stamps visit www.royalmail.com/goldmedalstamps
• For all the latest information on all Royal Mail special stamps launches and news, please follow us on Twitter: @RoyalMailNews and @RoyalMailStamps
• Royal Mail has showcased all the sports disciplines that will be seen in this summer’s Games in three sets of stamps counting down to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
• At the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games ParalympicsGB won 42 gold medals.
• Australia Post was the first postal service to issue gold medal stamps to mark home team Olympic victories in 2000, with Hellenic Post in Greece following suit in 2004.
• At the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, China Post issued a stamp product to mark each Chinese Gold medal win. This was a sheet of stamps with labels attached and an image of the winning athlete was printed on the labels. This was repeated for all Gold medal wins.
• More recently, Canada Post issued a stamp featuring an image of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games gold medal. This was issued to mark the first time a Canadian had won an Olympic gold medal on home territory.