Kare Adenegan
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| Born |
29 December 2000 Coventry, United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |
 Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wheelchair racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | T34 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 100 m 400 m 800 m 1500 m 4828 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Coventry Godiva Harriers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by |
Job King (club) Paula Dunn (national) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kare Adenegan (born 29 December 2000) is a British wheelchair athlete specialising in sprint distances in the T34 classification.[1][2] She was classified as a disability athlete in 2013.
Competing for Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, at the age of 15, she won a silver medal and two bronze medals.[3]
Early years
Adenegan was born in 2000 in Coventry, England and attends Bablake School.[4] She has cerebral palsy.[1]
Athletics career
Adenegan took up wheelchair racing in 2012, after being inspired by the Summer Paralympics in London. At school she found herself excluded from sports due to her cerebral palsy, but the Games made her realize that sport was open to her.[1] That year she joined a wheelchair academy in Coventry, and after becoming classified as a T34 athlete she began competing at national meets in 2013.[2]
In September 2015 Adenegan managed a major sporting coup when at the Grand Prix final in London she became the first athlete to beat world record holder Hannah Cockroft in over seven years.[5] The two team-mates met again a month later when Adenegan as selected as the youngest member of the Great Britain team at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha. There she entered three events, the 100 metres, 400 metres and 800 metres, all in the T34 classification.[1] Although just missing out on the 100m podium, after finishing fourth, Adenegan on her first major international medals of her career with bronze positions in both the 400m and 800m events.[1] Both events were won by Cockroft.
Although qualifying for the 2016 IPC Athletics European Championships in Grosseto, Adenegan pulled out of the event to concentrate on her preparations for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio.[6] When the final Great Britain athletics squad was announced, Adenegan was elected for three events and was the youngest team member in the track and field squad. At the Games she won a silver medal in the 100m and two bronzes in 400m and the 800m. [7]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Adenegan, Kare". www.paralympic.org. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- 1 2 "Kare Adenegan". powerof10.info. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ↑ "Rio Paralympics 2016: Hannah Cockroft wins 100m gold". BBC Sport. 10 September 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
- ↑ "Kare's Amazing Paralympic Games Selection Confirmed". Bablake School. 27 July 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ↑ Hudson, Elizabeth (29 September 2015). "Hannah Cockroft: No more mistakes before Rio 2016". BBC Sport. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ↑ Hudson, Elizabeth (10 June 2016). "IPC Athletics Europeans: GB set sights on success". BBC Sport. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ↑ "Paralympics GB Track and Field Line-up Confirmed for Rio 2016". paralympics.org.uk. 26 June 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2016.