Country Great Britain | Parents Bunmi Adenegan | |
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Event(s) 100 m 400 m 800 m 1500 m 4828 m Coached by Job King (club)Paula Dunn (national) | ||
Bablake school celebrates the return of gb paralympic star and pupil kare adenegan
Kare Adenegan (born 29 December 2000) is a British wheelchair athlete specialising in sprint distances in the T34 classification. She was classified as a disability athlete in 2013.
Contents
- Bablake school celebrates the return of gb paralympic star and pupil kare adenegan
- Kare adenegan delighted with wheelchair mini london marathon win
- Early years
- Athletics career
- References
Competing for Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, at the age of 15, she won a silver medal and two bronze medals.
Kare adenegan delighted with wheelchair mini london marathon win
Early years
Adenegan was born in 2000 in Coventry, England and attends Bablake School. She has cerebral palsy.
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. 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.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
