Anthony Kappes
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Anthony Kappes |
| Born | 1 March 1973 Stockport, England, United Kingdom |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Track & Road |
| Role | Rider |
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Anthony Edward Kappes MBE (born 1 March 1973) is an English road and track racing cyclist and Paralympian.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Born in Stockport, Cheshire,[1] Kappes is partially sighted and competes in the B&VI 1–3 class.[2]
He is the current World record holder for 200 metres, along with his pilot Barney Storey. Storey and Kappes became the first Paralympic team to hold the able-bodied British National Tandem Sprint Championships title in 2006.[3]
Kappes, began working with a new tandem pilot internationally in 2008, Jon Norfolk sacrificed his career as a member of Great Britain's able-bodied squad in order to work with Paralympians, and had to take a three-year break from competition in order to qualify. Kappes and Norfolk beat Simon Jackson and Storey to win the sprint and kilo (Achieving Worlds Best - 1.02.06) events at the 2008 VISA Paralympic World Cup.[4]
Riding with Storey once more at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, Kappes won gold at the Kilo and the Sprint.[5]
Kappes was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours for services to disabled sport.[6]
Palmarès
[edit | edit source]- 2006
- File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold Sprint, World Disability Championships
- File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kilo, World Disability Championships
- 2007
- File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold Sprint, World Disability Championships
- File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kilo, World Disability Championships
- 2008
- File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold Kilo (B&VI 1–3), Paralympics, Beijing (with Barney Storey)
- File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold Sprint (B&VI 1–3), Paralympics, Beijing (with Barney Storey)
- 1st Sprint, VISA Paralympic World Cup (with Jon Norfolk)
- 2012
- File:Gold medal icon.svg Gold Cycling at the 2012 Summer Paralympics - Men's sprint (B), Paralympics, London (with Craig MacLean)
See also
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External links
[edit | edit source]- British Cycling Bio[dead link]
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- 1973 births
- Living people
- English male cyclists
- British male cyclists
- Paralympic cyclists for Great Britain
- Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Great Britain
- Sportspeople from Stockport
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Alumni of the Royal National College for the Blind
- Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- UCI Para-cycling World Champions
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in cycling
- British Paralympic medalist stubs
- English cycling biography stubs