Jon-Allan Butterworth, an MBE born on 6 February 1986 in Birmingham, is a British Paralympic cyclist who represented Great Britain at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics. He lost his left arm in 2007 in an insurgent rocket attack at Basra airbase in Iraq while serving as a senior aircraftman weapons technician with the Royal Air Force. He found cycling through the first Help for Heroes bike ride in 2008 and a ParalympicsGB talent identification day. At London 2012 he won silver medals in the C4-5 kilo, the C5 4 kilometre individual pursuit and the mixed team sprint, and at Rio in 2016 he won gold with Jody Cundy and Louis Rolfe in the C1-5 750 metre team sprint.
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Jon-Allan Edward Butterworth MBE (born 6 February 1986 in Birmingham) is a British paralympic cyclist.
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Jon-Allan Edward Butterworth MBE (born 6 February 1986 in Birmingham) is a British paralympic cyclist.
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At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, Butterworth finished in fourth place in the C4-5 1k Time trial, and then won Gold with Jody Cundy and Louis Rolfe in the C1-5 750m Team Sprint.
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