Sir Chris Hoy
Sir Chris Hoy MBE is Great Britain’s most successful Olympic athlete of all time, with six gold medals and one silver. Chris won his first Olympic gold medal in Athens 2004 in the Kilo – an event that was dropped from the programme for Beijing 2008. Chris took this...
Colin Jackson
Without a doubt one of the greatest athletes that Great Britain has ever produced, Colin Jackson called time on his outstanding athletics career in front of an adoring home crowd at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham in 2003. After more than a decade spent at the very pinnacle...
Lina Khalifeh
Growing up in Amman, Jordan, where extracurricular activities for young girls were few and far between, Lina Khalifeh jumped into Taekwondo lessons at age five at her second cousin’s martial arts studio. She was good at the sport, and her coach told her so. Because being “good” at anything...
Billy Monger
A successful young British driver with race-winning success in Ginetta Junior and British F4, Billy Monger’s life changed forever on 16th April 2017. Billy was left with amputations to both legs and life-changing injuries after crashing with an unsighted, stationary car at 120mph during a British F4 race. However,...
Penny Mallory
Penny Mallory is one of the most successful women Rally Drivers and the first woman in the world to compete in a World Rally Car (the Formula 1 of Rallying). As a motoring expert, she has presented many high profile TV shows including the hugely successful Channel 4 show...
Shane Horgan
Shane Horgan has been passionate about sport all his life, representing Meath at Minor football level and achieving success as a Juvenile All-Ireland Cross Country Athletics Champion. In his international rugby career Shane has represented Leinster 207 times and is the first Leinster player to reach the double century...
Abbas Saad
Born in Lebanon, Abbas Saad moved to Australia and started a professional footballing career. A midfielder with a good eye for goal, he played in the Malaysian League for Johor and Singapore in the early 1990s. He was a key member of teams that won the League and Malaysia...
Grant Rawlinson
Grant ‘Axe’ Rawlinson is the Human Powered Explorer. Born with an intense natural curiosity, for 20 years he has been achieving powerful goals in the world of business and exploration. With a unique blend of both corporate and extreme exploration as a background, Grant has challenged himself from the...
Chantal Petitclerc
Determination, perseverance, discipline. These three qualities truly capture the strength and character of the great Canadian athlete, Olympian and wheelchair race specialist, Chantal Petitclerc. A paraplegic from the age of 13, Chantal discovered a passion for sports while seeking a physical activity suited to her post-accident condition. Wheelchair racing...
