Louis Rolfe was born on 21 July 1997 and is a British Paralympic track cyclist competing in C2 classification events.
11 Facts About Louis Rolfe
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Louis Rolfe was born ten weeks premature and has cerebral palsy and hydrocephalus.
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Louis Rolfe attended Coleridge Community College and Parkside Community College from 2008 to 2013.
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Louis Rolfe was inspired to take up para-sport after being inspired by the events of the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in London.
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Louis Rolfe was accepted onto the British Para-cycling Development Programme.
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Louis Rolfe was classified as a C2 classification cyclist and was part of the Great Britain team at the 2015 Newport Para-cycling International.
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In 2016, in the buildup to the Rio Paralympics, Louis Rolfe represented Britain at his second Track World Championships, this time in Montichiari.
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Louis Rolfe entered both the individual pursuit and the time trial, winning a bronze medal in the latter.
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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 Louis Rolfe was brought in as a late replacement.
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In September 2016 at the Rio Paralympics Louis Rolfe won bronze in the individual pursuit 3000m in the C2 class and gold in the 750m team sprint C1-C5 with Jon-Allan Butterworth and Jody Cundy in a world record time of 48.635 Seconds having already posted the previous record in qualifying.
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On 31 December 2016 Louis Rolfe was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 New Year Honours List for services to cycling.