Lora Fachie

Lora Fachie (née Turnham) started competing for the Great Britain Cycling Team in 2009 and picked up her first major medal at the 2011 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, winning a silver medal in the pursuit with her pilot Fiona Duncan.

Selected for London 2012, Lora and Fiona finished in 4th place in the tandem B kilo and the tandem B pursuit on the track, and finished 7th in their classification in the road race and 8th in the time-trial.

Following London, Lora was paired up with a new pilot, Corrine Hall, and the pair enjoyed instant success, winning the gold medal in the tandem B time-trial at the 2013 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, and a silver medal in the road race.

They continued their fine form in 2014, this time taking gold in the tandem B road race at the world championships and a bronze in the time-trial.

Although they were unable to medal at the world championships in 2015, they were still amongst the best bikes in the world winning three gold medals at world cup level.

Lora and Corrine had a strong start to 2016, winning their first medal together on the track by picking up a bronze in a pursuit at the 2016 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Montichiari, Italy, and then winning two silver medals at the road world cup in Belgium in May.

At Rio 2016 Lora and Corrine won gold and broke the world record in the tandem pursuit on the track and picked up a bronze medal in the time trial on the road.

A year later the pair claimed Road World Championship silver in the time trial with Lora and new pilot Hazel Macleod also taking silver in the pursuit at the Track World Championships in the same year.

Lora teamed up with Corinne once again for the 2018 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Rio de Janeiro - with the duo winning their first-ever world title as a pair.

The pair then claimed two more medals at the UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in Maniago in August 2018 as part of the most successful Great Britain Cycling Team squad performance ever at a road world championships.

At Tokyo 2020 Lora won gold and broke the world record along with pilot Corrine Hall in the Women’s 3000m Individual Pursuit. The duo also won silver in the Road Time Trial B. They finished fifth in the Road Race B and fourth in the 1000m Time Trial B. Lora is married to fellow Paralympic cyclist Neil Fachie.

Lora has a hereditary sight loss condition which also affects her two brothers and her mother. Her brother Roy is also a Paralympian and represented ParalympicsGB in football 5-a-side at London 2012.

Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games

• Pursuit B (Piloted by Corrine Hall): Gold
• Road Time Trial B (Piloted by Corrine Hall: Silver

Rio 2016 Paralympic Games

• Pursuit (Piloted by Corrine Hall): Gold
• Time Trial (Piloted by Corrine Hall): Bronze

2018 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships, Maniago (Italy)

• Time Trial (Piloted by Corrine Hall): Silver
• Road Race (Piloted by Corrine Hall) Silver

2018 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

• Pursuit (Piloted by Corrine Hall): Gold

2017 UCI Para cycling Road World Championships, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

• Time Trial (Piloted by Corrine Hall): Silver

2017 UCI Para cycling Track World Championships, Los Angeles, USA

• Pursuit (Piloted by Hazel Macleod): Silver

2016 UCI Para cycling Track World Championships, Montichiari, Italy

• Tandem B Pursuit (Piloted by Corrine Hall): Bronze

2014 UCI Para cycling Road World Championships, Greenville, USA

• Tandem B road race (Piloted by Corrine Hall): Gold
• Tandem B time trial (Piloted by Corrine Hall): Bronze

2013 UCI Para cycling Road World Championships, Baie-Comeau, Canada

• Tandem B time trial (piloted by Corrine Hall): Gold
• Tandem B road race (piloted by Corrine Hall): Silver

2011 UCI Para cycling Track World Championships, Montichiari, Italy

• Pursuit (piloted by Fiona Duncan): Silver