Jody Cundy
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| Jody Cundy at the 2012 London Summer Paralympics Victory Parade | |
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| Date of birth | October 14, 1978 |
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 United Kingdom
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| discipline | Track cycling |
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| Last updated: April 1st, 2018 | |
Jody Cundy , OBE (born October 14, 1978 in Wisbech ) is a British disabled athlete who is active in swimming and cycling . He starts in the paracycling category C4.
Athletic career
Jody Cundy was born with a deformed right foot that was amputated when he was three years old. Since then he has been wearing a prosthesis. When he was five years old, he had to be rescued from the bottom of the pool while taking swimming lessons at school. He was then registered by his parents in the local swimming club. At the age of ten he played his first swimming competition. In 1994 he made his debut at world championships and won the gold medal in the 100 meters swimming , his first of a total of 23 medals (14 gold, four silver and five bronze), which he achieved in his ten-year swimming career.
In 2005 Cundy switched to cycling and rode on the track for the first time at the Wales National Velodrome . In 2006 he started at the British Track Championships and set a new record over 200 meters. While he was still on the national swimming team, the British track team invited him to take part in Paracycling World Cups. Together with Darren Kenny and Mark Bristow , he set a new world record in the team sprint . In 2006, in Aigle , Jody Cundy won his first cycling gold medal at the UCI Paracycling World Track Championships . This makes him one of the few athletes in disabled sports who has won medals in various sports. By 2014 he set several world records and regularly competes in cycling competitions for non-disabled people. In 2009 he was fourth in the British championship in team sprint and seventh in the 1000-meter time trial.
At the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London , Cundy was expected to win a gold medal in the time trial, but the rear wheel of his machine spun at the start. The competition jury did not recognize that the fault could have been with the start machine for the time trial and refused to start again, whereupon Cundy had a fit of anger ("I've just wasted four f ****** years of my f * ***** life. ") and had to be taken out of the cycling track by his supervisors. An hour later he apologized to the spectators at the Olympic Velodrome over a microphone for his behavior.
At the UCI Paracycling World Track Championships in 2014 , Cundy won the time trial over 1000 meters in the new world record time of 1: 01.466 minutes. The following year, at the UCI Paracycling World Track Championships in 2015 in Apeldoorn , he was again world champion in this discipline, also in 2016 ; he also won the mixed sprint world title together with Louis Rolfe and Jon-Allan Butterworth . In the same year, Cundy won two gold medals at the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro , one over the 1000 meters and the second in the team sprint with Butterworth and Rolfe in the new world record time of 49.454 seconds.
Honors
In 2009 Jody Cundy was named Member of the Order of the British Empire . In 2017 he was appointed officer .
Success in swimming
- Summer Paralympics (S10)
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2004
- 100 meter butterfly -
2000
- 100 meters butterfly -
2000 - 4 x 100 meter relay freestyle
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2000 - 100 meters back
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1996 - 100 meter butterfly
Web links
- Jody Cundy in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Jody Cundy MBE. Retrieved April 19, 2014 .
- Official website of Jody Cundy. Retrieved April 19, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Palmares. (No longer available online.) Jodycundy.com, archived from the original on April 20, 2014 ; Retrieved April 19, 2014 .
- ↑ Paul Felso: Paralympics 2012: ParalympicsGB track cyclist Jody Cundy vents fury at 'joke' verdict following his disqualification. The Telegraph, August 31, 2012, accessed April 19, 2014 .
- ↑ British track cyclist freaks out. RP Online, September 1, 2012, accessed April 20, 2014 .
- ^ Gordon Rayner: Cyclist Jody Cundy apologises for disqualification rant. The Telegraph, August 31, 2012, accessed April 19, 2014 .
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| SURNAME | Cundy, Jody |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British disabled athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wisbech |