Charlotte Evans

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Charlotte Evans
MBE
File:Women's visually impaired superg skier number 4 Guide.JPG
Born (1991-03-29) 29 March 1991 (age 33)
Medal record
Alpine skiing
Representing File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain
Paralympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Sochi Super-G (guide)

Charlotte Evans MBE (born 29 March 1991) is a British skier, sighted guide and Paralympian. She is from Chatham in Kent, and attended Rochester Grammar School and then MidKent College. She started skiing as a child at the Chatham Ski Centre, a dry ski slope, moving on to snow at the age of 14.[1] At the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games, as guide for visually impaired skier Kelly Gallagher, she won gold in the women's super-G.[2] She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to Paralympic sport.[3][4] Charlotte skied with several famous people such as Fanny Chmelar.

References

  1. Kent on Sunday newspaper (Mid Kent), 13 December 2014"
  2. "Charlotte Evans". Sochi Paralympics. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  3. "No. 60895". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2014. p. b18.
  4. "Warren Gatland and Lizzy Yarnold recognised in Honours List". The Guardian. 13 June 2014. Retrieved 14 June 2014.