Team GB

Serena Vincent

How I Started: I started Shot Putt in primary school when my librarian told me I should join an athletics clubs because I was a cross country runner at the time. I joined Portsmouth Athletics club because my friend was already a member, and I have been there since! I got injured between the ages …

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Reuben Ward

How I Started: I started Gymnastics because my dad was a Gymnast when he was younger, he then got my sister to join a club, and then I followed because I was very energetic and bouncy as a child. I joined the same club as my sister which was Bury Gymnastics Club. I initially started …

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Phil Roper

How I Started: Both of my parents played Hockey so I was playing as soon as I could hold the stick. My dad was an umpire, and I spent the majority of my weekends as a child down the side of a pitch watching my parents play! I was shown the Olympics at the age …

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Lucy Robinson

How I Started: As a child I was very sporty and played football at Quorn Football Club as a goalkeeper when I was nine years old. I played in the league with them until I was 12 years old. During this time I was invited to the Leicester City Foxes Goalkeeping Academy, and the dream …

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Elise Glynn

How I started: I started at thirteen year sold at Solihull Amateur Boxing Club, I had watched the London 2012 Olympics and was inspired by Nicola Adams. I was a typical girl being into Cheerleading and horse riding. The first time I went into the gym I remember it being full of men, I turned …

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Oakley Banks

How I started: I started gymnastics through my granddad who was in the army. He used to run a sports club in the army and he used to do a lot of trampolining. When I was younger and I visited him he used to throw me about and let me run and jump over chairs, …

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Michael Allison

How I started: I have always been fairly sporty growing up, I played a bit of Rugby but had never tries athletics or Javelin. At 16, I threw the English schools qualifying standard, and then decided to take the sport a bit more seriously, so I joined a club and competed that same season, then, …

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Jodie Grinham

How I started: When I was 14 I used to watch my dad shoot, I became quite intrigued and asked to have a go, to which then somebody at the club stated that due to my disability I would not be able to shoot, so after a few weeks of my dad and I altering …

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Fred Teague

How I started: I started when I was around 4 years old, it was when I was jumping around the house too much so my parents decided to take me to a trampoline club, from there I continued the hobby and moved around to a. Few different clubs after coaches recommending I go to them, …

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Alisha Evanson

How I started: I started Gymnastics when a coach came into my school and spotted me for artistic gymnastics. I competed and trained in Artistic Gymnastics to the national level, but then had a short break and after around 4 weeks off, I went to a new gym and tried out Tumbling. I had done …

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