Kare Adenegan

Kare Adenegan

Personal information
Born	(2000-12-29) 29 December 2000 (age 16) Coventry, United Kingdom
Sport
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 Representing  Great Britain Women's athletics Paralympic Games 2016 Rio 100 m T34 2016 Rio 400 m T34 2016 Rio 800 m T34 IPC World Championships 2015 Doha 400 m T34 2015 Doha 800 m T34

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.

Competing for Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, at the age of 15, she won a silver medal and two bronze medals.

Adenegan was born in 2000 in Coventry, England and attends Bablake School. She has cerebral palsy.

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.

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