Neil Fachie

Aberdeen, Scotland, born 1984

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About MeFachie was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1984. He studied physics at Aberdeen University, it was whilst there he took up athletics. Having been born with retinitis pigmentosa he has limited sight. He qualified for the GB Summer Paralympic team for Beijiing and competed in 100m and 200m events.

He later switched to cycling and was almost immediately taken up by the GB Para-Cycling team coaches and by 2009 was part of the GB team for the Para-Track World Championships that year. With Barney Storey as his pilot in both the Kilo and Sprint events the marked a world record in the Kilo and won gold in this and the sprint event.

2011 saw Fachie in Italy in the World Para Championships that year paired with Craig MacLean where this time they set a new world record in the Sprint event (and the gold medal) as well as a gold in the Sprint event.

The following year at the London Paralympics Fachnie teamed up again with Barney Storey and set a new world record for the 1km time trial event and also won gold medal.

In 2013 Fachie again took part in the World Para-Cycling World Championships this time in Los Angeles World Track again with Barney Storey, where the pair took the silver medal in the Kilo event. Earlier in the year he was presented with an MBE and in June Aberdeen University awarded him an honorary degree.

2014 saw him compete at the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Aguascalientes, Mexico with Pete Mitchell as pilot. The pair won the gold medal in the tandem 1km time trial, and broke the world record set by Fachie and Storey at the 2012 Paralympics, the first tandem pairing to clock a sub-minute time for the kilo time trial. They also won the gold medal in the tandem sprint.

Later at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014 Fachie representing Scotland was back with Craig MacLean where the pair won both the Kilo Time Trial and the Sprint B Tandem events.

Fachie again representing Scotland, this time piloted by Matt Rotherham, successfully defended his kilo time trial and sprint B tandem titles at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia.

In 2021 with pilot Matt Rotherham, Fachie won the men’s B 1000m time trial event at the Tokyo Paralympics. While his wife Lora Turnham also a competitive para -cyclist and her partner Corrine Hall took gold in the women’s B 3000m individual pursuit.

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