Team GB

Adam Hague

How I Started For me, I was always really sporty when I was younger, and I participated in a handful of sports like swimming, cricket, football etc. I stopped attending these and returned to athletics, at my first session back I spotted the vault and decided I wanted to have a go myself. I spoke …

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Hope Gordon

How I Started I used to swim competitively, but when my friend switched to canoeing and shared a talent post with me that mentioned the canoeing team were looking for new team members. It seemed like the perfect time to switch as I was getting tired of training indoors so I made the switch and …

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Abbie Brown

How I Started I started playing when Rugby when I was six at Cullompton Rugby Club, I began after my brother started playing and I wanted to join in! After joining I played with the boys for six years and then switched to playing for the women’s team at the age of 13 as per …

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Bex Rayner

How I Started I started at Bradford Park Avenue at the age of 4, I was inspired by my mum and brother as My brother played for the same team, and from there I joined the club and began training. At the age of 8 I attended a sports camp with Leeds United called Leeds …

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Sara Parfett

How I Started I originally started in swimming competing in national races, I was swimming until the age of 20, but I was involved in an accident that put me out for around nine months. I returned to swimming after to compete in national, but with my injuries, it became more and more difficult to …

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Imogen Clark

How I started I have been swimming since I was an infant and continued swimming through school as it was part of my curriculum, but through the lessons in school I began club swimming and competing at the age of 9 and ended up winning the Derbyshire County Championships and ended up seeing through my …

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Danny Evans

How I Started I was first introduced to Basketball at after-school club in primary school, and from there I fell in love with the game and decided that one day I wanted to play professionally. Shortly after my first coach told me that he saw potential in me and from there I set out to …

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James Tomlinson

How I Started I started throwing discus at 13 after winning the county championship. To train, I was throwing pebbles on the beach with my dad. After the championships, my dad bought me my first discus and I started training at Pembrokeshire Harriers, my local athletics club. In 2014 I won my first Wales Schools …

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Adele Nicoll

How I Started I was a very athletic child that competed in almost every event. After competing at school in multiple sports I committed myself to Shot Put and sprinting as I started to see that my talents lay in these sports. After a while, I also dropped sprinting to focus on  Shot Put as …

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Javier Bello

How I Started I started playing Volleyball at the age of 6 alongside my brother Joaquin. We started Volleyball because our father, Luis Bello is an ex-professional Volleyball player. We began at the age of 6 when we lived in Madrid, but then our family moved to London and I joined my first club- Richmond …

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