Jon-Allan Butterworth
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| Medal record | ||
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| Para-cycling | ||
Representing  Great Britain |
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| Paralympic Games | ||
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2012 London | Kilo - C4-5 |
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2012 London | 4km pursuit - C5 |
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2012 London | Mixed team sprint |
| Track World Championships | ||
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2011 Montichiari | Kilo - C5 |
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2012 Los Angeles | Kilo - C5 |
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2016 Montichiari | Mixed team sprint |
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2014 Aguascalientes | Kilo - C5 |
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2016 Montichiari | Kilo - C5 |
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2014 Aguascalientes | 4km pursuit - C5 |
Jon-Allan Edward Butterworth[1](born 6 February 1986 in Birmingham)[2] is a British paralympic cyclist. He represented Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[3]
Butterworth lost his left arm in 2007 in an insurgent rocket attack when serving as a senior aircraftman weapons technician with the Royal Air Force at Basra airbase in Iraq. He had previously served in Afghanistan in 2005.[4]
Butterworth got into cycling by taking part in the first Help for Heroes bike ride in 2008, from there he went on to be recognized as talented at a ParalympicsGB Talent ID day
At London 2012 he won silver medals in the C4-5 kilo,[5][6] C5 4km individual Pursuit[7] and mixed team sprint.[8] In the kilo, his C5 world record was beaten by Alfonso Cabello.[9]
References
- ↑ JAB H4H bio, H4H bio.
- ↑ GRO reference: March 1986, Vol. 32, Page 1614
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ http://www.paralympics.org.uk/gb/news/mix-of-multi-medallists-and-new-talent-named-in-road-and-track-para-cycling-teams-for-paralympicsgb
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- ↑ Butterworth's achievements, Butterworth's Achievements.
- ↑ The 12 biggest upsets at London 2012, paralympic.org, 14 September 2012, retrieved 22 November 2013
Categories:
- 1986 births
- Living people
- British male cyclists
- Paralympic cyclists of Great Britain
- Paralympic silver medalists for Great Britain
- Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Royal Air Force airmen
- Royal Air Force personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
- Royal Air Force personnel of the Iraq War
- UCI Para-cycling World Champions
- Sportspeople from Birmingham, West Midlands
- English amputees
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
