English swimmer

Charlotte Henshaw

Charlotte Sarah Henshaw is a British Paralympic full-time athlete across multiple disciplines. Originally a swimmer, she changed to canoeing from 2017, becoming the reigning World champion in the KL2 (seven-time) and VL3 (four-time) 200m events. In September 2021, at the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, she became a Paralympic champion at her fourth games, winning the Women's KL2 event. In Paris at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, Henshaw was the only Paracanoe athlete to win double gold - winning the inaugural VL3 event and retaining her KL2 title.

Born

1987

January 16

Died

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1980s

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Charlotte, in brief

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Key dates

1987 Born

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-1458 Hatshepsut dies at the age of 50 and is buried in the Valley of the Kings.
-27 Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
378 General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán.
550 Gothic War: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.

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The world in 1987

When Charlotte arrived

april 11 The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
april 21 The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
april 27 The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
april 4 Garuda Indonesia Flight 032 crashes at Medan Airport, killing 23.

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Aaliyah 1979–2001 American singer and actress (born 1979) Anthony Denny 1501–1549 confidant of Henry VIII of England (died 1559) Charles Henry Davis 1807– American admiral (died 1877) Cliff Thorburn 1948– Canadian snooker player Evripidis Bakirtzis 1895– Greek soldier and politician (died 1947) Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton 1853– Greek-English general (died 1947) Johannes Schöner 1477–1547 German astronomer and cartographer (died 1547) Maxine Jones 1962– American R&B singer–songwriter and actress Robert L. Park 1931– American physicist and academic (died 2020)

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Also born in 1987

Andre Russell 1987– Jamaican cricketer Andrew Cogliano 1987– Canadian ice hockey player Brooklyn Decker 1987– American model and actress Carlos Quintero 1987– Colombian footballer Carolina Kostner 1987– Italian figure skater Chelsea Manning 1987– American soldier and intelligence analyst Dana Vollmer 1987– American swimmer Daniel Hudson 1987– American baseball player Fabian Hambüchen 1987– German gymnast

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