Corie Miguel Mapp (born 1978) is an international

para-athlete Para-athletics is the sport of athletics practised by people with a disability as a parasport. The athletics events within the parasport are mostly the same as those available to able-bodied people, with two major exceptions in wheelchair rac ...

and former

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in The Life Guards, the senior regiment of the Household Cavalry and the British Army. He is a Para bobsleigh World Cup winner who in 2020 became Britain's first European Champion in Para Bobsleigh. Born in

Bridgetown Bridgetown (UN/LOCODE: BB BGI) is the capital and largest city of Barbados. Formerly The Town of Saint Michael, the Greater Bridgetown area is located within the parish of Saint Michael. Bridgetown is sometimes locally referred to as "The Ci ...

, Barbados, Mapp came to Britain in 2005 to join the Army where he was the first Barbadian to ride on the Queen's Birthday Parade (

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) and on other mounted State ceremonial duties. In 2008, he was posted as a combat vehicle driver to the Household Cavalry Regiment in Windsor, which was deployed to Helmand Province, Afghanistan, in late 2009. While on active duty there in early 2010 he lost both legs when his military vehicle ran over an explosive device. Mapp was unconscious for two weeks but within a month of his injury was starting to walk on prosthetic legs. He later competed in athletics and sitting volleyball for the British Army in the 2013

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, and the first three

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. in 2020 Mapp joined Wilshire Police as a fulltime Police Community Support Officer. His autobiography Black Ice, written with former Life Guard and military historian, Christopher Joll was published in October 2021.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mapp, Corie Living people 1978 births Sportspeople from Bridgetown British Life Guards soldiers British Army personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)