Louis Rolfe
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| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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21 July 1997 Cambridge, England |
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| Residence | Cambridge, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Track cycling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | C2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Louis Rolfe MBE (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 in London. In December 2012 he attended a para-festival where he was tested by Great Britain Cycling Team coaches. Rolfe was subsequently accepted onto the British Para-cycling Development Programme. He was classified as a C2 classification cyclist and was part of the Great Britain team at the 2015 Newport Para-cycling International. In Newport he won a silver as part of the men's team sprint and a bronze in the 3 km sprint, and was selected to represent his country at the 2015 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. The World Championships provided experience for Rolfe and he finished fifth as a part of the team sprint, seventh in the 1 km time trial and 10th in the individual pursuit.
In 2016, in the buildup to the Rio Paralympics, Rolfe represented Britain at his second Track World Championships, this time in Montichiari. Rolfe entered the both the individual pursuit and the time trial, winning a bronze medal in the latter. Originally he was not part of the Team sprint as the line-up was intended to be Jon-Allan Butterworth, Kadeena Cox and Jody Cundy, but prior to the Championship Cox was reclassified and Rolfe was brought in as a late replacement. Despite never having raced together, the three posted a final time of 49.268 to win the gold and set a new world record time.
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