Lora Turnham
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| Full name | Lora Marie Fachie (née Turnham) |
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4 September 1988 Liverpool, England |
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| Discipline | Track, Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Stoker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lora Marie Fachie, MBE (née Turnham; born 4 September 1988) is a visually impaired English racing cyclist who competes in para-cycling tandem road and track events. She is a double world champion, with pilot Corrine Hall, in the tandem road race and 1 km time trial events.
Fachie was born in Liverpool, England in 1988. Fachie has a hereditary sight loss condition which also affects her two brothers, Roy and Mark, and her mother. At the age of five she lost her sight, leaving her only with light perception. She now uses a guide dog.
Fachie attended Gateacre School in Liverpool as a child and matriculated to the University of Birmingham where she studied physiotherapy. She is married to fellow Paralympian Neil Fachie.
Fachie comes from a sporting family, both her brothers have represented England in VI (visually impaired) cricket and Roy played 5-a-side football for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics. Fachie first became involved in cycling in 2009 whilst at university. That year she was teamed up with sighted rider Rebecca Rimmington and Fachie attended her first UCI Para-Cycling World Cup event, in Italy, winning bronze in the Tandem B road race. The following year she took gold, again with Rimmington, in the road race at the Spanish World Cup.
In 2011 Fachie switched pilot, now racing with Fiona Duncan. The two found success at their first major international event when they won the silver at the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Montichiari in the Pursuit. Fachie also picked up two more World Cup medals that year, a silver and bronze, in Sydney. Fachie and Duncan spent another season together, taking gold in the time trial at the World Cup in Segovia, Spain. Fachie's results saw her selected for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, selected for both road and track events. On the road Fachie finished 7th in the time trial and 8th in the road race. The time trial was particularly disappointing for Fachie as she suffered a mechanical fault to her bike whilst holding a 14-second lead on the final lap. In the track she finished just outside the podium places in both her events, losing the bronze medal race against British team mate Aileen McGlynn in the individual pursuit and a fourth-place finish in the 1km time trial.
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