Corie Miguel Mapp (born 1978) is an international para-athlete and former Lance Corporal 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.[1][2][3][4] Born in Bridgetown, 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 (Trooping the Colour) and on other mounted State ceremonial duties.
Corie Mapp | |
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| Born | Corie Mapp 13 October 1978 Bridgetown, Barbados |
| Occupation | Para athlete, Police Community Support officer, retired soldier, |
| Nationality | British Barbadian dual national |
| Notable works | Black Ice – The memoir of a soldier, double amputee and world champion |
| Spouse | Unknown |
| Children | Three daughters |
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.[5][6]
He later competed in athletics and sitting volleyball for the British Army in the 2013 Warrior Games, and the first three Invictus Games. in 2020 Mapp joined Wilshire Police as a fulltime Police Community Support Officer. [7] His autobiography Black Ice, written with former Life Guard and military historian, Christopher Joll was published in October 2021.[8]
References
edit- ^ Warren, Jane (26 November 2021). "Para Bobsleigh World Cup winner Corie Mapp on his white-knuckle ride of a life". Daily Express. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
- ^ "Corie Mapp becomes the first ever British athlete to win the European Para-bobsleigh Championship". Swindon Advertiser. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ "Corie Mapp". British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association (BBSA). Retrieved 18 October 2021.
- ^ "Corie Mapp becomes first Briton to win European Para-bobsleigh title". BBC. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
- ^ Houghton, Rachel. "Meet "Black Ice", double amputee & Swindon PCSO Corie Mapp, find out what it means to live by the mantra "Don't exist... Live!"". BBC Sounds. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ Tominey, Camilla (22 October 2021). "'I've trained with Prince Harry, lost my legs in Helmand – now I'm on course to be a bobsleigh world champion'". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ "Swindon: Double amputee Corie Mapp works as PCSO". BBC Wiltshire. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
- ^ "Black Ice". Nine Elms Books. Retrieved 18 October 2021.