Fabienne André (born 20 September 1996) is a British

wheelchair racer Wheelchair racing is the racing of wheelchairs in track and road races. Wheelchair racing is open to athletes with any qualifying type of disability, amputees, spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy and partially sighted (when combined with another ...

. In 2021, she won gold in the

100 m The 100 metres, or 100-meter dash, is a sprint race in track and field competitions. The shortest common outdoor running distance, the dash is one of the most popular and prestigious events in the sport of athletics. It has been contest ...

and 800 m at the

2021 World Para Athletics European Championships The 2021 World Para Athletics European Championships was a track and field competition for athletes with a disability open to International Paralympic Committee (IPC) affiliated countries within Europe and a refugee team with one athlete. This wa ...

Life

She was born on 20 September 1996. She was first interested in swimming as a sport and she won three medals swimming at the Cerebral Palsy game in Barcelona in 2018. She later took an interest in athletics because she wanted to try a triathlon. She was training as a wheelchair racer in 2018. She has cerebral palsy and she competes in the T34 category. She works as a physiotherapist assistant.

Career

André was chosen to compete at 100m and 800m (T34) as part of the Paralympics GB team at the postponed

2020 Summer Paralympics The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralym ...

in Tokyo. At the

2022 Commonwealth Games The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations that took place in Birmingham, England bet ...

André won bronze in the T34 100m,being part of a Team England Podium Sweep in the event with fellow team mates

Hannah Cockroft Hannah Lucy Cockroft (born 30 July 1992) is a British wheelchair racer specialising in sprint distances in the T34 classification. She holds the world records for the 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres, 800 metres ...

and

Kare Adenegan Karé Adenegan (born 29 December 2000) is a British wheelchair athlete specialising in sprint distances in the T34 classification. She was classified as a disability athlete in 2013. Competing for Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Paraly ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Andre, Fabienne 1996 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Paralympics English female sprinters English female wheelchair racers Medalists at the World Para Athletics European Championships Paralympic athletes of Great Britain 20th-century English women 21st-century English women Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games