Sarah Storey

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Dame Sarah Storey
Sarah Storey medals (cropped).jpg
Personal information
Born (1977-10-26) 26 October 1977 (age 46)
Sport
Country  United Kingdom
Medal record
Representing  Great Britain
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Paralympic Games 5 8 3
Para Swim World Champs 5 5 5
Total 10 13 8
Swimming
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1992 Barcelona 100 m backstroke S10
Gold medal – first place 1992 Barcelona 200 m individual medley SM10
Gold medal – first place 1996 Atlanta 100 m backstroke S10
Gold medal – first place 1996 Atlanta 100 m breaststroke SB10
Gold medal – first place 1996 Atlanta 200 m individual medley SM10
Silver medal – second place 1992 Barcelona 400 m freestyle S10
Silver medal – second place 1992 Barcelona 4×100 m freestyle S7–10
Silver medal – second place 1992 Barcelona 4×100 m medley S7–10
Silver medal – second place 1996 Atlanta 400 m freestyle S10
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney 100 m backstroke S10
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney 4×100 m medley 34pts
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens 100 m breaststroke SB9
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens 200 m individual medley SM10
Bronze medal – third place 1992 Barcelona 100 m freestyle S10
Bronze medal – third place 1996 Atlanta 100 m freestyle S10
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Athens 100 m freestyle S10
IPC World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1994 Malta 100 m Backstroke S10[1]
Gold medal – first place 1994 Malta 100 m Breaststroke SB10[2]
Gold medal – first place 2002 Mar del Plata 100 m Freestyle S10[3]
Gold medal – first place 2002 Mar del Plata 200 m Ind. Medley SM10[4]
Gold medal – first place 2002 Mar del Plata 400 m Freestyle S10[5]
Silver medal – second place 1994 Malta 200 m Ind. Medley SM10[6]
Silver medal – second place 1994 Malta 400 m Freestyle S10[7]
Silver medal – second place 1998 Christchurch 100 m Backstroke S10[8]
Silver medal – second place 1998 Christchurch 4x100 m Medley open[9]
Silver medal – second place 2002 Mar del Plata 100 m Backstroke S10[10]
Bronze medal – third place 1994 Malta 4x100 m Medley S7-10[11]
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Christchurch 200 m Ind. Medley SM10[12]
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Christchurch 400 m Freestyle S10[13]
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Christchurch 4x100 m Freestyle open[14]
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Mar del Plata 50 m Freestyle S10[15]
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Paralympic Games 6 0 0
Para Track World Champs 9 0 2
Para Road World Champs 6 2 0
Para Euro Cycling Champs 3 1 0
Total 24 3 2
Road cycling
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing Time trial LC 1–2/CP 4
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Individual Road Time Trial C5
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Individual Road Race C4–5
IPC World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2009 Bogogno Time Trial LC1[16]
Gold medal – first place 2009 Bogogno Road Race LC1[17]
Gold medal – first place 2010 Baie-Comeau Time Trial C5[18]
Gold medal – first place 2010 Baie-Comeau Road Race C5[19]
Gold medal – first place 2011 Roskilde Time Trial C5[20]
Gold medal – first place 2011 Roskilde Road Race C5[21]
Silver medal – second place 2006 Aigle Time Trial[22]
Silver medal – second place 2006 Aigle Road Race[22]
European Championships[22]
Gold medal – first place 2005 Alkmaar Road Race[22]
Silver medal – second place 2005 Alkmaar Time Trial[22]
Track cycling
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing Individual pursuit LC 1–2/CP 4
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Individual pursuit C5
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Time Trial C4–5 500m
IPC / UCI World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Bordeaux 3km Pursuit LC1[22]
Gold medal – first place 2009 Manchester 3km Pursuit LC1[23]
Gold medal – first place 2009 Manchester 500 m Time Trial LC1[24]
Gold medal – first place 2011 Montichiari 500 m Time Trial C5
Gold medal – first place 2011 Montichiari 4km Pursuit C5
Gold medal – first place 2012 Carson 500 m Time Trial C5[25]
Gold medal – first place 2012 Carson 3km Pursuit C5[26]
Gold medal – first place 2014 Aguascalientes 3km Pursuit C5[27]
Gold medal – first place 2014 Aguascalientes Scratch Race C1-5[28]
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Bordeaux 400 m Time Trial LC1[22]
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Aguascalientes 500 m Time Trial C5[29]
European Championships[22]
Gold medal – first place 2005 Alkmaar Individual Pursuit[22]
Gold medal – first place 2005 Alkmaar 500 m Time Trial[22]

Dame Sarah Joanne Storey, DBE (born 26 October 1977), is a British road and track racing cyclist and former swimmer, multiple gold medal winner at the Paralympic Games in both sports, and three times British (able bodied) national track champion. Her total of eleven gold medals makes her the equal of Tanni Grey-Thompson and Dave Roberts, considered among the most successful British Paralympians.[30]

Storey was born without a functioning left hand after her arm became entangled in the umbilical cord in the womb.[31]

Storey's list of major achievements also include being a 21-time World champion (6 in swimming and 15 in cycling), a 21-time European champion (18 in swimming and 3 in cycling) and holding 72 world records.[32]

Swimming at the Paralympic Games

Storey (then known as Sarah Bailey) began her Paralympic career as a swimmer,[33] winning two golds, three silvers and a bronze in Barcelona in 1992. She continued swimming in the next three Paralympic Games before switching to cycling in 2005.[34]

Cycling

At the 2008 Paralympic Games, her fifth, Storey won the individual pursuit – in a time that would have been in the top eight at the Olympic final[35] – and the road time trial.

Storey also competes against non-disabled athletes and won the 3 km national track pursuit championship in 2008, eight days after taking the Paralympic title,[36] and defended her title in 2009.[37] In 2014 she added a third national track title with a win in the points race.[38]

Storey qualified to join the England team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, where she was "the first disabled cyclist to compete for England at the Commonwealth Games", against non-disabled cyclists.[39] She was also the second Paralympic athlete overall competing for England at the Games, following archer Danielle Brown earlier in Delhi.[40]

In 2011, Storey competed for one of the three places in the GB squad for the women's team pursuit at the 2012 Olympic Games. Although she was in the winning team for the World Cup event in Cali, Colombia in December 2011,[41] she was informed afterwards that she was being dropped from the team pursuit squad.[42]

London's 2012 Paralympics Games saw Storey win Britain's first gold medal, in the women's individual C5 pursuit.[43][44][45] She went on to win three more gold medals, one in the Time Trial C4–5 500m,[45] one in the Individual Road Time Trial C5[45] and finally one in the Individual Road Race C4–5.[46]

In 2014, Storey and her husband Barney Storey founded the Pearl Izumi Sports Tours International women's amateur cycling team, supporting the charity Boot Out Breast Cancer. The team fielded squads in the 2014 and 2015 British road race seasons.[47][48]

Storey attempted to break the world hour record at the Lee Valley VeloPark in London on 28 February 2015. She set a distance of 45.502 km, which was 563m short of Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel's 2003 overall world record – however Storey's distance did set a new world record in the C5 Paralympic cycling class as well as a new British record.[49]

Honours

Storey was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1998 New Year Honours.[50] Following the Beijing Games, she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.[51] In 2012, she was awarded an honorary degree by the Manchester Metropolitan University.[30] Following the 2012 London Games, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours.[52][53]

Storey was a nominee for the 2008 Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability and the 2012 BBC Sports Personality of the Year.[54]

Personal life

In 2007 Storey married tandem pilot and coach Barney Storey[55] In January 2012, Storey appeared on Celebrity Mastermind with Sex & The City as her specialist subject.[56] She finished in last place with a score of 16 points from two rounds. She and her husband live in Disley, Cheshire.[57]

On 30 June 2013, Storey had a baby daughter called Louisa Marie.

See also

References

  1. ↑ IPC Swimming World Championships 1994 – Women's 100m Backstroke S10 International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
  2. ↑ IPC Swimming World Championships 1994 – Women's 100m Breastroke SB10 International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
  3. ↑ IPC Swimming World Championships Mar del 2002 – Women's 100 m Freestyle S10 International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
  4. ↑ IPC Swimming World Championships Mar del 2002 – Women's 200 m Individual Medley SM10 International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
  5. ↑ IPC Swimming World Championships Mar del 2002 – Women's 400 m Freestyle S10 International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
  6. ↑ IPC Swimming World Championships 1994 – Women's 200m Individual Medley SM10 International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
  7. ↑ IPC Swimming World Championships 1994 – Women's 400m Freestyle S10 International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
  8. ↑ IPC Swimming World Championships 1998 – Women's 100 m Backstroke S10 International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
  9. ↑ IPC Swimming World Championships 1998 – Women's 4x100 m Medley open International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
  10. ↑ IPC Swimming World Championships Mar del 2002 – Women's 100 m Backstroke S10 International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
  11. ↑ IPC Swimming World Championships 1994 – Women's 4x100m Medley Relay S7-10 International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
  12. ↑ IPC Swimming World Championships 1998 – Women's 200 m Individual Medley SM10 International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
  13. ↑ IPC Swimming World Championships 1998 – Women's 400 m Freestyle S10 International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
  14. ↑ IPC Swimming World Championships 1998 – Women's 4x100 m Freestyle open International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
  15. ↑ IPC Swimming World Championships Mar del 2002 – Women's 50 m Freestyle S10 International Paralympic Committee (IPC).
  16. ↑ UCI Para Road World Championships 2009 – Women's Time Trial LC1 International Cycling Union (UCI).
  17. ↑ UCI Para Road World Championships 2009 – Women's Road Race LC1 International Cycling Union (UCI).
  18. ↑ UCI Para Road World Championships 2010 – Women's Time Trial C5 International Cycling Union (UCI).
  19. ↑ UCI Para Road World Championships 2010 – Women's Road Race C5 International Cycling Union (UCI).
  20. ↑ UCI Para Road World Championships 2011 – Women's Time Trial C5 International Cycling Union (UCI).
  21. ↑ UCI Para Road World Championships 2011 – Women's Road Race C5 International Cycling Union (UCI).
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 22.5 22.6 22.7 22.8 22.9 Dame Sarah Storey OBE profile British Cycling.
  23. ↑ UCI Para Track Cycling World Championships 2009 – Women's 3km pursuit LC1 International Cycling Union (UCI).
  24. ↑ UCI Para Track Cycling World Championships 2009 – Women's 500 m time trial LC1 International Cycling Union (UCI).
  25. ↑ UCI Para Track Cycling World Championships 2012 – Women's 500 m time trial C5 International Cycling Union (UCI).
  26. ↑ UCI Para Track Cycling World Championships 2012 – Women's 3km pursuit C5 International Cycling Union (UCI).
  27. ↑ UCI Para Track Cycling World Championships 2014 – Women's 3km pursuit C5 International Cycling Union (UCI).
  28. ↑ UCI Para Track Cycling World Championships 2014 – Women's Scratch race C1-5 International Cycling Union (UCI).
  29. ↑ UCI Para Track Cycling World Championships 2014 – Women's 500 m time trial C5 International Cycling Union (UCI).
  30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 BBC News: Paralympian Sarah Storey honoured by Manchester Metropolitan University (accessed 17 December 2012)
  31. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  32. ↑ Dame Sarah Storey DBE profile Team Storey Sport.
  33. ↑ "Sarah Storey Pursuing More Paralympic Glory in Beijing" 12 March 2008
  34. ↑ Sarah Storey profile at Laureus.com, accessed May 2010
  35. ↑ Results at cyclingweekly.co.uk
  36. ↑ Profile at www.inspirationalspeakers.co.uk
  37. ↑ "Storey on top as Pendleton shines"
  38. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  39. ↑ "InterviewSarah Storey: From Paralympic swimmer to Commonwealth cyclist", The Guardian, 1 October 2010
  40. ↑ "The Paralympian taking on able-bodied athletes", The Independent, 2 October 2010
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  44. ↑ "London Paralympics 2012 – day one: as it happened", The Guardian, 30 August 2012
  45. ↑ 45.0 45.1 45.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  49. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  50. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 54993. p. 14. 31 December 1997. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  51. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 58929. p. 12. 31 December 2008. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  52. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  53. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60367. p. 24. 29 December 2012.
  54. ↑ BBC Sport: Bradley Wiggins wins BBC Sports Personality of the Year (accessed 17 December 2012)
  55. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  56. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  57. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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