Who is the former Formula 1 racing driver who won a Paralympics Cycling Gold Medal at London 2012?
"a clear lead in the medal table based on dominance within the velodrome, particularly in the female events where Kadeena Cox became the first British paralympian in 32 years to win golds in two different sports at the same Games, and Sarah Storey confirmed herself as the most successful female paralympian from Great Britain, overtaking the record set by fellow peer Tanni Grey-Thompson. On the road, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy were dominant, with racing driver turned handcyclist Alex Zanardi winning two gold medals and a silver to add to an identical haul from London in 2012. The United States,"
"for the Road Cycling events of the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Riders raced around a course that starts and finishes at Brands Hatch and encompasses both the circuit and local roads surrounding it. Notably, the men's H4 time trial and road race were won by Italy's Alex Zanardi, an auto racer who had extensive experience as a driver at the track. Zanardi first drove at Brands Hatch in 1991 in the Formula 3000 series, and had last driven at the track in the World Touring Car Championship in 2009 — eight years after losing both legs in a near-fatal 2001 racing"
"with a Disability. David Nicholas David Nicholas, (born 1 December 1991) is an Australian cyclist. He won silver and gold medals at the 2012 London Paralympics and a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. David Aron Nicholas was born on 1 December 1991 in Rockhampton. He has cerebral palsy. Other sports he participates include karate. , he lives in the Queensland town of Proserpine. where he works as IT Support Officer at Whitsunday Regional Council. Nicholas is a C3 classified cyclist who competes in road and track events. At the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Roskilde, Denmark,"
"4 km individual pursuit at the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships and a gold and silver medal in road events at the national championships. In 2012 he won a gold medal at the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in the men's tandem 4 km pursuit with his pilot Scott McPhee in their first competition together; his usual pilot, former world champion Mark Jamieson, could not attend the competition. He competed with Sean Finning at the 2012 London Paralympics and they won the silver medal in the Men's individual pursuit B . He was due to ride with Jamieson but"
"David Nicholas David Nicholas, (born 1 December 1991) is an Australian cyclist. He won silver and gold medals at the 2012 London Paralympics and a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. David Aron Nicholas was born on 1 December 1991 in Rockhampton. He has cerebral palsy. Other sports he participates include karate. , he lives in the Queensland town of Proserpine. where he works as IT Support Officer at Whitsunday Regional Council. Nicholas is a C3 classified cyclist who competes in road and track events. At the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Roskilde, Denmark, he won the"
"inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame. Craig MacLean Craig MacLean MBE (born 31 July 1971) is a Scottish track cyclist who has represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, winning a Silver Medal in the Team Sprint at the 2000 Olympics. As a sighted guide, McLean returned to the sport in its Paralympic form, piloting Neil Fachie to two gold medals in the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, and Anthony Kappes to a gold medal in the 2012 Paralympic Games. MacLean is only the"
"Queen's New Year Honours list. Louis Rolfe Louis Rolfe (born 21 July 1997) is a British Paralympic track cyclist competing in C2 classification events.Rolfe came to note as a cyclist during the 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships where he was part of the gold medal winning British team sprint event along with fellow cyclists Jon-Allan Butterworth and Jody Cundy. Rolfe was born in 1997 in Cambridge, England. He was born ten weeks premature and has cerebral palsy and hydrocephalus. Rolfe was inspired to take up para-sport after being inspired by the events of the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics"
"Rafał Wilk Rafał Wilk (born 9 December 1974 in Łańcut) is a Paralympic handcyclist and former speedway rider from Poland. He won two gold medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Now he is a handcyclist but he used to be a professional speedway rider. He started doing sports in 1991, at the age of 12. On 3 May 2006, Rafal Wilk had an accident during a speedway meeting in Krosno. He injured his spinal cord, and lost control in the lower part of his body. After the accident, he was determined to continue as an athlete, so he"
"of Australia Medal in the 2014 Australia Day Honours ""for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."" Scott McPhee Scott Matthew McPhee, (born 2 January 1992) is an Australian cyclist, who piloted Kieran Modra in tandem cycling. He won a gold medal with Modra at the 2012 London Paralympics. McPhee was born in Adelaide on 2 January 1992. , he lives in the Adelaide suburb of Wayville where he is a student at the University of Adelaide working on a Bachelor of Law. He attended West Lakes Shore Primary School and completed high school"
"Barney Storey Richard Barnaby ""Barney"" Storey MBE (born 13 March 1977) is a British cyclist. He rides as a sighted pilot for blind or partially sighted athletes in tandem track cycling events. He competed at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Paralympic Games and won three gold medals. Storey has had Type 1 diabetes since the age of four. At the 2004 Summer Paralympics he participated in two tandem track cycling events, acting as the sighted pilot for Daniel Adam Gordon. The pair finished fourth in the sprint and fifth in the 1 km time trial. In 2005 he won the"
"on a tandem at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. However he returned to able-bodied competition when he received a call up to the British squad for the 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. After not being selected for the 2012 Summer Olympics he rejoined the British paralympic cycling squad as a pilot for the tandem events in November 2012. Jason Queally Jason Paul Queally (born 11 May 1970) is an English track cyclist. He won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. Born at Great Heywood, Staffordshire, Queally spent his childhood in Caton with Littledale, a village near Lancaster."
"and observation assessment. Competitors in this classification include David Stone from Great Britain, and Australia's Carol Cooke. This classification has UCI rankings for elite competitors. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, events for this classification include T 1-2 Road Race and Mixed T 1-2 Time Trial. T2 (classification) T2 is a para-cycling classification. The class is for cyclists with more moderate loss of stability and function compared to T1. It includes people with a variety of different types of disabilities including cerebral palsy. This class uses tricycles (hence the ""T"" in T2) and competes at the Paralympic Games in road events"
"14 October 2017 Ježek announced his retirement from professional cycling aged 43. Jiří Ježek Jiří Ježek (born 16 October 1974 in Prague, Czech Republic) is a former Czech road and track racing cyclist and Paralympian who has won medals at each of the past three Paralympic Games. At the age of 11, Jiří Ježek lost his right leg below the knee in a car accident and by the age of 20 he had taken up competitive cycling as a hobby. After five years of hard training Ježek began to emerge as one of the world’s top cyclists riding in the"
"Track Cycling world record holder across the 6 Hour, 100km, 200km & 300km disciplines respectively. The ride raised comfortably over £20,000 for British charities, Epilepsy Action and the Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity. Katharine Ford Katharine Ford (born 25 April 1986) in Glasgow, is a multi record-breaking British Ultracyclist and Epilepsy campaigner. Aged 9, Katharine was diagnosed with Right Temporal-lobe Epilepsy, before undergoing major transformative brain surgery 5 years later at the Edinburgh Royal Hospital for Sick Children. She is former a Trustee of London disability sport charity Interactive, and the Herne Hill Velodrome Trust in London. In 2012, she was"
"Stephanie Morton Stephanie Morton, (born 28 November 1990) is an Australian track cyclist. She has won national and international cycling titles, and was Felicity Johnson's tandem pilot at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won a gold medal. Stephanie Morton was born in Adelaide on 28 November 1990. , she works for the ""Bee Safe on Bikes"" education program for junior primary school students. Morton is a member of South Coast Cycling Club and is part of Team Jayco AIS. She started cycling competitively at the age of 15. Competing at the 2011 National Keirin Final, she finished"
"British National TT Championships on 11 October 2014. 2011 – 1st National Para-cycling Circuit Race Champion Tom Staniford Tom Staniford (born 1 July 1989, in Akrotiri, Cyprus) is an English para-cyclist from Exeter. He was the 2011 National Para-Cycling Circuit Race Champion. He is provisionally classified by the UCI as a C3 para-cyclist due to connective tissue disorders affecting his feet and hands, almost-total fixation of his ankles, poor flexibility in all his limbs, low testosterone, diabetes type 2, moderate hearing loss in both ears, and lipodystrophy, which affects his metabolism and body fat amongst other things. His condition was"
"Australian Paralympian of the Year award She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2014 Australia Day Honours ""for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."" Felicity Johnson Felicity Jane Johnson (born 30 May 1971) is an Australian Paralympic tandem cyclist, who won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing and a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Felicity Jane Johnson was born on 30 May 1971 with a visual impairment. Her early sporting career was as a track and field athlete and she"
"the bike a month later to win the Oceania 4 km pursuit championship. In December 2011, he collided with a car while cycling to work, breaking two vertebrae in his neck and one in his spine; this accident hampered his preparations for the 2012 London Games. He won a gold medal at the games in the Men's Individual Pursuit B with McPhee. At the 2014 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Aguascalientes, Mexico, he teamed with pilot Jason Niblett to win the silver medals in the Men's Sprint B and Men's B 1 km Time Trial. With pilot Jason Niblett,"
"breaking the previous record time set by Paul Curran. He changed direction in late 2011, pairing with vision-impaired cyclist Bryce Lindores. After Jamieson relocated to the Gold Coast to train, the two went on to compete at the UCI para-cycling road world cup. Although they did not win, their performance was sufficient to qualify for the paralympics, and in June 2012 it was announced that Jamieson would be piloting for Lindores at the 2012 London Paralympics. Mark Jamieson Mark Ian Jamieson (born 4 May 1984 in Dandenong) is an Australian professional racing cyclist. He started competing at the age of"
"Morton rode a personal best time of 34.079 in the 500 m time trial at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, but won silver after Anna Meares posted a faster time. However, she defeated Meares in the track sprint, winning two heats to none in the best-of-three final to take the gold medal. Stephanie Morton Stephanie Morton, (born 28 November 1990) is an Australian track cyclist. She has won national and international cycling titles, and was Felicity Johnson's tandem pilot at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, where she won a gold medal. Stephanie Morton was born in Adelaide on 28"
"pursuit event. Muñoz competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in cycling as a guide for Miguel Ángel Clemente Solano. In the track pursuit event, the pair won a bronze medal when racing head to head against a pair from Ireland. Diego Javier Muñoz Diego Javier Muñoz (born 5 April 1974) is a Spanish cyclist, who has served as a pilot for visually impaired Paralympic competitor Miguel Ángel Clemente Solano. Competing with Clemente, they won a silver at the 2011 World Championships and a bronze at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Muñoz was born on 5 May 1974 outside of Spain. He"
"Jennifer Schuble Jennifer Schuble (born July 8, 1976 in Lake Charles, Louisiana) is an American track and road cyclist. Schuble has a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. She works in the automotive industry for Mercedes-Benz USA. She was a Gold medalist & two-time silver medalist at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China and is a two-time gold medalist at Parapan American Games. She won a silver medal & bronze at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Besides medals, she also is a five-time UCI World Champion and Paralympic medalist. Schuble was also a ten-time UCI World Champion and held both"
"took up monoski and went on to practice handbiking. He proved successful in the latter, shortly winning his first Polish championship title. In 2012, during the London Summer Paralympic Games he won two gold medals in road cycling in the H3 category (handbiking). Rafał Wilk Rafał Wilk (born 9 December 1974 in Łańcut) is a Paralympic handcyclist and former speedway rider from Poland. He won two gold medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Now he is a handcyclist but he used to be a professional speedway rider. He started doing sports in 1991, at the age of 12."
"gold in the tandem sprint. Peter Mitchell (cyclist) Peter Mitchell (born 12 January 1990 in London, England) is an English track cyclist, specialising in the individual and team sprints. In 2009, he was named in the Team Sky+ HD track cycling team alongside names such as Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendelton. In November 2012 it was announced that Mitchell was joining the British paralympic cycling squad as a pilot for the tandem events. Mitchell teamed up with Paralympic gold medallist and multiple world champion Neil Fachie for the 2013 British National Track Championships, where they were second in both the"
"Josh Hose Joshua Anthony ""Josh"" Hose, (born 1 December 1986) is a wheelchair rugby player. He has won gold medals at the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Paralympics. Joshua Anthony Hose was born on 1 December 1986 in Camperdown, Victoria. On 26 January 2005 (Australia Day), he was involved in a car accident that left him a C6 – C7 Paraplegic; he dislocated a vertebra when the roof of his car collapsed after a rollover. He ended up spending two weeks in a medically induced coma during his recovery. His subsequent paralysis is from the waist down. Growing up, he"
"Australia Day Honours ""for service to sport as a Gold Medallist at the London 2012 Paralympic Games."" Joann Formosa Joann Formosa, (born 19 February 1961) is an Australian Para-equestrian, who won a gold medal at the 2012 London Paralympics. Joann Helen Formosa was born on 19 February 1961, and is from Broadford in central Victoria. She attended university, where she studied art. Formosa has spinal cord and nerve damage, caused by an accident following an attempt to open a gate while she was riding a horse. She can walk with the aid of crutches, though she is not self-sufficient, and"
"Paralympics were his first. Competing at the 2013 Para-cycling Road World Championships, Baie-Comeau, Canada, he won a bronze medal in the Men's Individual Time Trial H3. Nigel is a three-time winner of the Wheelchair Sports WA Sports Star of the Year award having won in 2011 alongside Darren Gardiner, 2012 alongside Shaun Norris, and 2013. Nigel Barley (cyclist) Nigel Barley (born 27 September 1974) is an Australian cyclist. At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, he won a silver medal. Barley was born on 27 September 1974. He is from Western Australia. When he was twenty-six years old, he broke his back"
"Michael Gallagher (cyclist) Michael Thomas Gallagher, OAM (born 14 December 1978) is an Australian Paralympic cyclist from Scotland. He has won gold medals at the Beijing and 2012 London Paralympics. He was selected in the Australian team for the 2016 Rio Paralympics. The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency (ASADA) revealed that Gallagher had returned a positive A sample for erythropoietin (EPO) in an out-of-competition training camp in Italy in July 2016. This A positive disqualified him from the Rio Paralympics. Gallagher was born on 14 December 1978 in Scotland and moved to Australia as a five-year-old. He has Erb's palsy in"
"Male Para-cyclist of the Year. In 2008, he was one of eighty Australians to participate in the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay. In November 2013, he was named Cycling Australia's Elite Male Para-Cyclist of the Year. Michael Gallagher (cyclist) Michael Thomas Gallagher, OAM (born 14 December 1978) is an Australian Paralympic cyclist from Scotland. He has won gold medals at the Beijing and 2012 London Paralympics. He was selected in the Australian team for the 2016 Rio Paralympics. The Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency (ASADA) revealed that Gallagher had returned a positive A sample for erythropoietin (EPO) in an out-of-competition training"
"that decision was year to year. Mayalen Noriega María Mayalen Noriega is a Spanish cyclists competitor who competes in regular cycling and Paralympic cycling as a pilot for Josefa Benítez Guzman, who she won a silver medal with at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. She has also served as a guide for Susana Rodríguez in the paratriathlon. Noriega was born on 19 February 1982 in Mexico. She is from the Catalan region of Spain, living in Mataró, Barcelona in 2012. In 2013, she was awarded the silver Real Orden al Mérito Deportivo. In 2013, she had a broken scapula following a"
"record from Jon-Allan Butterworth. His gold medal was the first Gold won by Spain at the 2012 Games. Alfonso Cabello Alfonso Cabello Llamas (born 19 September 1993) is a Spanish Paralympic cyclist. Representing Spain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, Cabello won a gold medal in the men's 1 km time trial C4–5 taking the world record. Cabello was born on 19 September 1993 in La Rambla without his left hand. As a child, his mother made sure that missing his hand would not get in the way of him doing things. She insisted he learn to tie his shoe laces"
"also achieved bronze at the 2009 European Championships, held in Adana, Turkey. In 2011, there was a victory at the 2011 European Championships, held in Nazareth, Israel. He finished, along with his team, in first place. Peter Finbow Peter Finbow (born 17 May 1975) is a British wheelchair basketball player. He was selected to play for Team GB in the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Finbow was born on 17 May 1975 in Bradford, Yorkshire, northern England. He had a road accident at the age of sixteen years. He is a Paraplegic, meaning that he has an impairment in motor"
"Simon Yates (cyclist) Simon Philip Yates (born 7 August 1992) is a British road and track racing cyclist. He currently competes for the team. His twin brother is Adam Yates, who is also a cyclist for the same team. He won the gold medal in the points race at the 2013 Track Cycling World Championships. Following a doping ban in 2016, he won the young rider classification in the 2017 Tour de France and the general classification in the 2018 Vuelta a España. The brothers took up cycling after their father John was injured in a collision with a car"