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Post by Shireblogger on Feb 2, 2020 9:04:02 GMT 1
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Post by Shireblogger on Feb 2, 2020 9:27:52 GMT 1
Joe Salisburysport: tennis achievement: Australian Open Men's Doubles Champion (with Rajeev Ram) age: 27 born: London Joe Salisbury has become just the second British man to win a men's doubles title at the Australian Open in the past 50 years. (Jamie Murray is the other one). He and Rajeev Ram (USA) were seeded 11th and triumphed over the following pairs on the way to the championship:- R1: Dan Evans (GB) & John-Patrick Smith (Aus) R2: Tennys Sandgren & Jackson Withrow (both USA) R3: Marcel Granollers (Spain) & Horacio Zeballos (Arg) - 6th seeds QF: Henri Kontinen (Finland) & Jan-Lennard Struff (Germany) SF: Alexander Bublik & Mikhail Kukushkin (both Kazakh) F: Max Purcell & Luke Saville (both Aus) Salisbury has previously reached the Semi-Finals at Wimbledon (2018) and has won four ATP Tour tournaments during the past 18 months. This victory will move him to a career high world ranking of #4. I'll illustrate this one with a photo I took, at the Nottingham Open tennis tournament in 2018. 
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Post by Shireblogger on Mar 12, 2020 17:39:44 GMT 1
Kirsty Muir
One for the future. Mark your card now.
sport: big air freestyle skiing
achievement: silver at the Youth Olympics
age: 15
born: Aberdeen
Kirsty was GB's only individual medallist at the Youth Olympics, held in Lausanne, Switzerland in January. If her career progresses well, and she stays injury free, she could be a medal contender at the 2026 Winter Olympics, to be held in Milan and Cortina, Italy.
British competitors picked up five further medals at the Youth Olympics in mixed nationality events - one speed skater and four ice hockey players.
Here is Kirsty's silver medal winning jump.
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Post by Shireblogger on Mar 12, 2020 17:57:46 GMT 1
Robert Paxton, Julie Forrest, Greg Harlow & Nick Brett, Nick Brett & Marion Purcell
sport: indoor bowls
achievement: 2020 World Champions (open singles, women's singles, open pairs, mixed pairs)
age/born:
Paxton - 41, Exeter
Forrest - 51, Scottish Borders
Harlow - 51, Ely
Brett - 45, Peterborough
Purcell - 59, Pontypool
Held in Great Yarmouth in January, the event is designated a World Championship. But Indoor Bowls is very much a British dominated sport. Of the 80 competitors in the first round of the four events, only ten were not British - 4 New Zealanders, 3 Australians, 2 Americans, and a South African - and none of them reached the second round.
Brett has 5 World Championships to his name, Paxton and Harlow both have four, and Forrest and Purcell now have two apiece.
If anyone doubts the skill needed to become Indoor Bowls World Champion, check out this shot by Nick Brett.
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Post by Shireblogger on Mar 12, 2020 18:08:26 GMT 1
Elinor Barkersport: track cycling - points race achievement: World Champion age: 25 born: Cardiff Britain is no longer the all-conquering force it was in the velodrome. The 2020 World Championships, held in Berlin in February, saw Britain finish 7th in the medal table, with 1 gold, 2 silvers (men's team sprint & women's team pursuit) and 1 bronze (Matthew Walls, omnium). Elinor won a gold and a silver, to take her career World Championship haul to 5 golds, 6 silvers and 1 bronze). She is also defending Olympic Champion in the team pursuit. 
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Post by Shireblogger on Mar 12, 2020 18:17:00 GMT 1
Tom Pidcocksport: cyclo-cross achievement: World Championship silver age: 20 born: Leeds Having been World junior champion in 2017 and world Under-23 champion in 2019 (aged just 19), Tom Pidcock entered the full World Championship this year, and won a brilliant silver in Switzerland. Another tremendous prospect for a trophy room full of medals. 
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Post by Panda on Mar 28, 2020 15:11:32 GMT 1
Not British but a special mention for Britney Spears breaking Usain Bolt's 100m world record by 3.6 seconds...  |
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