Medal record | ||
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Men's Para-cycling | ||
Representing Great Britain | ||
Paralympic Games | ||
2016 Rio de Janeiro | Mixed team sprint | |
2012 London | Kilo - C4-5 | |
2012 London | 4km pursuit - C5 | |
2012 London | Mixed team sprint | |
Track World Championships | ||
2011 Montichiari | Kilo - C5 | |
2012 Los Angeles | Kilo - C5 | |
2016 Montichiari | Mixed team sprint | |
2014 Aguascalientes | Kilo - C5 | |
2016 Montichiari | Kilo - C5 | |
2016 Montichiari | Mixed team sprint | |
2014 Aguascalientes | 4km pursuit - C5 |
Jon-Allan Edward Butterworth [1] MBE (born 6 February 1986 in Birmingham) [2] is a British paralympic cyclist. He represented Great Britain at the 2012 & 2016 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]
At the 2016 Summer Paralympics he finished in 4th place in the C4-5 1k Time trial, and then won Gold with Jody Cundy and Louis Rolfe in the C1-5 750m Team Sprint. [10] [11]
Butterworth was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to cycling. [12]
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