Jon-Allan Butterworth

Jon-Allan Butterworth

Medal record
Para-cycling
Competitor for  Great Britain
Paralympic Games
	2012 London	Kilo - C4-5
	2012 London	4km pursuit - C5
	2012 London	Mixed team sprint
Track World Championships
	2011 Montichiari	Kilo - C5
	2012 Los Angeles	Kilo - C5
	2016 Montichiari	Mixed team sprint
	2014 Aguascalientes	Kilo - C5
	2016 Montichiari	Kilo - C5
	2014 Aguascalientes	4km pursuit - C5

Jon-Allan Edward Butterworth^[1](born 6 February 1986 in Birmingham)^[2] is a British paralympic cyclist. He represented Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.^[3]

Butterworth lost his left arm in 2007 in an insurgent rocket attack when serving as a senior aircraftman weapons technician with the Royal Air Force at Basra airbase in Iraq. He had previously served in Afghanistan in 2005.^[4]

Butterworth got into cycling by taking part in the first Help for Heroes bike ride in 2008, from there he went on to be recognized as talented at a ParalympicsGB Talent ID day

At London 2012 he won silver medals in the C4-5 kilo,^[5][6] C5 4km individual Pursuit^[7] and mixed team sprint.^[8] In the kilo, his C5 world record was beaten by Alfonso Cabello.^[9]

References

1. JAB H4H bio, H4H bio.
2. GRO reference: March 1986, Vol. 32, Page 1614
3. "Jon-Allan Butterworth". www.london2012.com. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
4. http://www.paralympics.org.uk/gb/news/mix-of-multi-medallists-and-new-talent-named-in-road-and-track-para-cycling-teams-for-paralympicsgb
5. Davies, Gareth (26 August 2012). "Paralympics 2012: Jon-Allan Butterworth claims most GB Paralympians are just 'having a laugh'". www.dailytelegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
6. "Paralympics 2012: Butterworth silver but Cundy disqualified". BBC Sport. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
7. "Men's Ind. C5 Pursuit". london2012.com. Retrieved 2012-09-01.
8. Butterworth's achievements, Butterworth's Achievements.
9. The 12 biggest upsets at London 2012, paralympic.org, 14 September 2012, retrieved 22 November 2013