Jon-Allan Butterworth

BIO

Jon-Allan Butterworth MBE has represented Great Britain at two Paralympic Games with incredible results – winning three silver medals in 2012 and a gold medal in 2016. In 2017, he was awarded his MBE for services to cycling. After leaving secondary school Jon-Allan joined the RAF in 2002 and served in Afghanistan in 2005 and Iraq in 2007 as a SAC(T) Weapons technician. On 4 August 2007, he was involved in a rocket attack on Basra Air Station, Iraq. He was operated on by doctors in a battlefield hospital who carried out an above-the-elbow amputation of his left arm. By August 2009, Butterworth had left the RAF to focus on his new career and less than two years on that decision was vindicated when he won gold and set a new world record in the C5 kilo at his debut UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Montichiari, Italy. In 2016, Jon-Allan became the first ever British Military athlete to win a Paralympic Gold Medal.

SKILLS

Elite Performance | Adversity | Performing Under Pressure | Motivation | Resilience | Public Speaking | Mentoring | Coaching

ACHIEVEMENTS

RAF Weapons Technician - Served in Afghanistan 2005 | Iraq 2007 Paralympian - Team GB | Cycling Paralympics - 1x Gold | 3x Silver Medalist 4x World Champion Broken 4 World Records First British Military Athlete to win Gold at a Paralympic Games