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Anthony Edward Kappes MBE (born 1 March 1973) is an English road and track racing cyclist and Paralympian.
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| Full name | Anthony Kappes | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 March 1973 Stockport, England, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Track & Road | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Born in Stockport, Cheshire,[1] Kappes is partially sighted and competes in the B&VI 1–3 class.[2]
He is the current World record holder for 200 metres, along with his pilot Barney Storey. Storey and Kappes became the first Paralympic team to hold the able-bodied British National Tandem Sprint Championships title in 2006.[3]
Kappes, began working with a new tandem pilot internationally in 2008, Jon Norfolk sacrificed his career as a member of Great Britain's able-bodied squad in order to work with Paralympians, and had to take a three-year break from competition in order to qualify. Kappes and Norfolk beat Simon Jackson and Storey to win the sprint and kilo (Achieving Worlds Best - 1.02.06) events at the 2008 VISA Paralympic World Cup.[4]
Riding with Storey once more at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, Kappes won gold at the Kilo and the Sprint.[5]
Kappes was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours for services to disabled sport.[6]
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- 2006
Gold Sprint, World Disability Championships- Gold Kilo, World Disability Championships
- 2007
- Gold Sprint, World Disability Championships
- Gold Kilo, World Disability Championships
- 2008
- Gold Kilo (B&VI 1–3), Paralympics, Beijing (with Barney Storey)
- Gold Sprint (B&VI 1–3), Paralympics, Beijing (with Barney Storey)
- 1st Sprint, VISA Paralympic World Cup (with Jon Norfolk)
- 2012
- Gold Cycling at the 2012 Summer Paralympics - Men's sprint (B), Paralympics, London (with Craig MacLean)
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