Kare Adenegan on the podium with her silver medal in paris smiling

Karé Adenegan

Para athletics

Region

Coventry
Date of Birth

29/12/2000
Classification

T34 100m & 800m

Bio

Karé Adenegan repeated her Tokyo success in Paris once again winning two stunning silver medals behind Hannah Cockroft in the T34 100m and 800m.

Karé started wheelchair racing after she watched Cockroft win her first gold medals at London 2012. Three years later, they would be on the same team together.

At the age of 14, she made her international debut at the 2015 World Championships in Doha, where she won a pair of bronze medals.

Those bronze medals would turn to silver, particularly in the T34 100m, where she came second to Cockroft on her Paralympic debut in Rio.

Karé would finally claim the top spot on the podium at the 2018 European Championships in Berlin, where she beat Cockroft over 100m in 17.38 seconds. In the same year, she was named the BBC’s Young Sports Personality of the Year.

The victory in 2018 was not repeated at the subsequent World Championships or the Tokyo Paralympics, where she claimed double silver in both the T34 100m and 800m.

Away from the track, Karé is a devout Christian and a passionate speaker on equality and inclusion. She has family from Nigeria, including her father who is her biggest supporter that she affectionately calls “Kaka .”

Karé on the track in Tokyo

Major Results

Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

T34 100m: Silver
T34 800m: Silver

Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games

T34 100m: Silver
T34 800m: Silver

Rio 2016 Paralympic Games

T34 100m: Silver
T34 400m: Bronze
T34 800m: Bronze

2023 World Para Athletics Championships, Paris, France

T34 100m: Silver
T34 800m: Silver

2019 World Para Athletics Championships, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

T34 100m: Silver
T34 800m: Silver

2017 IPC Athletics World Championships, London, UK

T34 100m: Silver
T34 400m: Bronze
T34 800m: Bronze

2015 IPC Athletics World Championships, Doha, Qatar

T34 400m: Bronze
T34 800m: Bronze

2018 IPC Athletics European Championships, Berlin, Germany

T34 100m: Gold
T34 800m: Silver

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