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Kare Adenegan

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Karé Adenegan
Personal information
Born (2000-12-29) 29 December 2000 (age 23)
Coventry, United Kingdom
Sport
Country Great Britain
SportWheelchair racing
Disability classT34
Event100 m 400 m 800 m 1500 m 4828 m
ClubCoventry Godiva Harriers
Coached byJob King (club)
Paula Dunn (national)
Medal record
Women's para athletics
Representing  Great Britain
Paralympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio 100 m T34
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 100 m T34
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 800 m T34
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris 100 m T34
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris 800 m T34
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio 400 m T34
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Rio 800 m T34
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Doha 400 m T34
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Doha 800 m T34
Silver medal – second place 2017 London 100 m T34
Bronze medal – third place 2017 London 400 m T34
Bronze medal – third place 2017 London 800 m T34

Karé 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] In 2018, Adenegan set a then New World record in the T34 100m at the Müller Anniversary Games in London, with a time of 16.80 seconds. Adenegan is one of the only T34 athletes to have completed the 100 metres in sub 17 seconds.

In 2018, she won the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year Award.[4]

Early years

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Adenegan was born in 2000 in Coventry, England and attended Bablake School.[5] She now attends Warwick University.[6] She has cerebral palsy.[1]

Athletics career

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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 more than seven years.[7] 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 won 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 she qualified 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 de Janeiro.[8] 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.[9][10]

At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, she won the silver medal in the 100m behind teammate Hannah Cockroft. She also won the bronze medal in both the 400 and 800m.[11]

At the 2017 World Para Athletics Championships Karé won a silver in the 100m and two bronzes is in the 400 and 800m, repeating her results from Rio 2016.

In 2018 aged 17, Adenegan broke the T34, women's 100 metres world record at the London Muller Anniversary Diamond League defeating Hannah Cockroft by half a second. Adenegan's placed a time of 16:80 seconds making her the only T34 athlete to have gone under 17 seconds in the history of the sport.

In August 2018, at the Para World European Athletics Championships in Berlin, Adenegan defeated Cockroft in the T34 100 metres for the second time in the season, also setting a championship record of 17:34 seconds ( Cockroft finished in 17:95 seconds). Adenegan got her first gold medal in senior competition and a silver in the 800 metres in the same competition.

At the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships she won a silver medal in both the 100 and 800 metres.

In June 2021 she was among the first dozen athletes chosen to represent the UK at the postponed 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo, where she won silver medals in the 100 metres and 800 metre competitions.[12]

At the 2022 Commonwealth Games she won a silver medal in the T34 100m.

At the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships she won a silver medal in both the 100m and 800m.

Kare was selected to compete at the 2024 Summer Paralympics.[13][14] There she won a silver medal in both the 100 and 800 metres, behind teammate Hannah Cockroft.[4]

Personal life

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Adenegan is a Christian.[15] She is a member of the Christians in Sport organisation.[16]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Adenegan, Kare". Paralympic.org. Archived from the original on 8 January 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Kare Adenegan". powerof10.info. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  3. ^ "Rio Paralympics 2016: Hannah Cockroft wins 100m gold". BBC Sport. 10 September 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
  4. ^ a b "BBC Young Sports Personality 2018: Kare Adenegan wins award". BBC Sport. 21 October 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Kare's Amazing Paralympic Games Selection Confirmed". Bablake School. 27 July 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  6. ^ "Kare Adenegan — Scholarship Athlete". Retrieved 30 June 2021.
  7. ^ Hudson, Elizabeth (29 September 2015). "Hannah Cockroft: No more mistakes before Rio 2016". BBC Sport. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  8. ^ Hudson, Elizabeth (10 June 2016). "IPC Athletics Europeans: GB set sights on success". BBC Sport. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  9. ^ "Paralympics GB Track and Field Line-up Confirmed for Rio 2016". paralympics.org.uk. 26 June 2016. Archived from the original on 17 August 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  10. ^ Coldwell, Ben (7 September 2016). "Kare Adenegan prepares for Paralympic debut four years after taking up sport". AW. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  11. ^ Weekly, Athletics (10 September 2016). "Hannah Cockroft retains 100m title and Kare Adenegan secures silver in Rio". AW. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  12. ^ "British team for Paralympics starts to take shape". AW. 23 June 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  13. ^ mfoster (24 June 2024). "First athletes named for the British Paralympic team". England Athletics. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  14. ^ "Paris: Grassroots to Glory - Coventry & Warwickshire - Kare Adenegan: Gold third time round? - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 14 September 2024.
  15. ^ ""I knew that if I really worked hard, it could happen"- Kare Adenegen". Passion For Sport. 18 August 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  16. ^ Woods, Mark (29 July 2018). "Kare Adenegan finds ambition and sacrifice is a winning combination". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
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