Sophie Thornhill

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Sophie Thornhill Road cycling
To person
Date of birth February 9, 1996
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
discipline Paracycling - track cycling (B)
Most important successes
Paralympics (B)
2016 Gold medal Paralympics.svg - 1000 meter time trial (with Helen Scott )
2016 Bronze medal Paralympics.svg - Single Pursuit (with Helen Scott )
UCI Paracycling World Track Championships (B)
2019 World Champion - Time Trial, Single Pursuit (with Helen Scott )
2018 World Champion - Time Trial, Single Pursuit (with Corrine Hall )
2017 World Champion - Time Trial, Single Pursuit (with Corrine Hall )
2016 silver - tandem sprint, time trial (with Helen Scott )
2015 World Champion - tandem sprint, time trial (with Helen Scott )
2014 World Champion - Tandem Sprint, Time Trial (with Rachel James )
Last updated: August 11, 2020

Sophie Thornhill , MBE (born February 9, 1996 in Poynton ) is a British track cyclist and four-time world champion (as of 2016). It starts in paracycling class B.

Sophie Thornhill has a visual impairment due to albinism . In track cycling disciplines she therefore starts on a tandem with a sighted pilot. The athlete recorded her first major success together with Rachel James , an older sister of track world champion Rebecca James , at the Newport International Paracycling Cup .

In 2014 Thornhill made her world championship debut at the World Railroad Championships . She won two gold medals with Rachel James, in the time trial and in the sprint . In the qualification they set a new world record over 200 meters with a flying start with 10.854 seconds. The following year she won gold twice with Helen Scott at the World Championships , in the sprint and time trial , and at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow that same year . At the UCI Paracycling Track World Championships in 2015 , she won the two world titles together with Scott again. In 2016 , she won silver with Scott in these two disciplines.

In 2016, Sophie Thornhill and Helen Scott won the gold medal in the 1000-meter time trial and a bronze in the single pursuit at the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro . In 2017 (with Corrine Hall ) and 2018 (with Scott) she was double world champion. In 2019 she was able to repeat this double success with Helen Scott.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elizabeth Hudson: Paralympic sport's ones to watch for 2014. BBC, December 31, 2013, accessed April 21, 2014 .
  2. ↑ James and Thornhill look forward to world championship debut. British Cycling, April 10, 2014, accessed April 21, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Scott Hobro: Triple gold for Great Britain on final day of para-cycling track world championships. Retrieved April 21, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Thornhill, Sophie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Poynton