Jon-Allan Butterworth

Jon-Allan Edward Butterworth MBE[1] (born 6 February 1986 in Birmingham)[2] is a British paralympic cyclist.

[3] Butterworth lost his left arm in 2007 in an insurgent rocket attack when serving as a senior aircraftman weapons technician with the Royal Air Force at Basra airbase in Iraq.

[4] Butterworth got into cycling by taking part in the first Help for Heroes bike ride in 2008, from there he went on to be recognized as talented at a ParalympicsGB Talent ID day At London 2012 he won silver medals in the C4-5 kilo,[5][6] C5 4km individual Pursuit[7] and mixed team sprint.

[9] At the 2016 Summer Paralympics he finished in 4th place in the C4-5 1k Time trial, and then won Gold with Jody Cundy and Louis Rolfe in the C1-5 750m Team Sprint.

[10][11] Butterworth was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to cycling.