Meet the ‘Para Queen’ balancing staying in shape with studying

Great Britain’s Kare Adenegan tells Jacob Phillips how she is juggling life at university while still staying on course for the Tokyo Paralympics next year

Adenegan is working towards Tokyo (Getty Images)

Not many students have had as eventful a first year as Kare Adenegan.

While fellow freshers at the University of Warwick partied the night away, Adenegan was preparing for the World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai.

Weeks later, the wheelchair racer was on the start line going for global T34 100m gold and spending her free time between heats and finals preparing an essay on Plato’s stance on feminism.