Katie-George Dunlevy (born 26 November 1981) is an English-born Paralympic cyclist competing in

tandem Tandem, or in tandem, is an arrangement in which a team of machines, animals or people are lined up one behind another, all facing in the same direction. The original use of the term in English was in ''tandem harness'', which is used for two ...

events for

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, and formerly a

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competitor for Great Britain in the 4+ Mixed LTA class.

Career

Dunlevy won a gold medal at the time trial B event and silver in the road race at the

2016 Summer Paralympics The 2016 Summer Paralympics (), the 15th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for disabled sports, athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, fro ...

with pilot

Eve McCrystal Evelyn McCrystal (born 28 July 1978) is an Irish Paralympic cycle sport, cyclist competing in Tandem (UCI), tandem events for Ireland, as a sighted pilot for blindness, blind cyclist Katie-George Dunlevy. Career McCrystal won a gold medal at th ...

. A multiple World medalist along with McCrystal. In 2014 Dunlevy and McCrystal won their first World Championship medal, a Silver medal in the road race. In 2015 the pair won Bronze in the 3k pursuit at the UCI Para-Cycling Track World Championships in Apeldorm, Netherlands. She became double World Champion at the UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships in September 2017 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. A year later in 2018 in Maniago, Italy she retained both titles becoming double World Champion again with McCrystal. In the same year she won Bronze in the 3k pursuit at the UCI Para-Cycling Track World Championships. In 2019 she won Gold in the time trial at the UCI Para-Cycling Road World Championships in Emmen, Netherlands becoming world champion for the third time and won Silver in the road race. Dunlevy won the B Women's (Tandem) event in the 108 km road race at the Yorkshire 2019 Para-Cycling International with pilot

in a time of 02:36:57. In January 2020 Dunlevy and McCrystal won Silver at the UCI Para-Cycling track World Championships in the 3k pursuit. After 17 months without competition, in June 2021 at the UCI Para-Cycling Road World Championships in Estoril, Portugal, Dunlevy and McCrystal won double Silver in the time trial and road race. In 2021 the pair won a silver medal at the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics in the

individual pursuit The individual pursuit is a track cycling event where two cyclists begin the race from a stationary position on opposite sides of the track. It is held at over for men and for women. The riders start at the same time and set off to complete the ...

event. On the road events a couple of days later they retained their title from Rio in the time trial winning Gold and also won Gold in the road race becoming the most successful Irish female Paralympian.

Personal life

Dunlevy was diagnosed with

retinitis pigmentosa Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a genetic disorder of the eyes that causes loss of vision. Symptoms include trouble seeing at night and decreasing peripheral vision (side and upper or lower visual field). As peripheral vision worsens, people may ...

(RP) aged 11 and is registered blind. She previously competed in athletics, rowing and swimming before taking up cycling in 2011. She competes for Ireland as her father is a native of

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. She has five sisters. Dunlevy is openly LGBT.

References

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