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Liam Tancock is an English backstroke swimmer who specializes in the 50 m and 100 m events. He began his swimming career at Exeter City Swimming Club in Devon and continued at Loughborough University where he studied sports science. On 2 April 2008, he set a new world 50 m backstroke record of 24.47 seconds at the British Olympic trials at the Ponds Forge pool, Sheffield.
David Gillick specializes in the 400 metres and won the European Indoor Championship in 2005 and 2007. He set the Irish Indoor record of 45.52 seconds in the 2007 final. The time also beat the Irish outdoor record of 45.58 and was within the Olympic 'A' qualifying standard for the 2008 Games. On June 27, 2008 he ran 45.12 seconds in a race in Lille to set a new national record.
Martyn Rooney was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2005 European Juniors, held in Lithuania in July of that year. He achieved the Silver Medal in the individuals and gold with the relay team and on his return home was then asked to make up the senior’s 4x400 m Men's Relay team at the IAAF World Championships, held that year in Helsinki, Finland. Martyn was originally running only in the heat, but impressing the GB coaches with a time of 44.9 seconds, he was selected to also run in the final. Despite completing his leg in 44.8 seconds, Martyn and team mates Timothy Benjamin, Robert Tobin and Malachi Davis came in fourth, with a sub three minute time.
As someone who once found elite athlete's "sad" because they spent the entirety of their time training and "would never want to do that", it's a little ironic how I am now dedicating my life to becoming a Champion. After 11 years of competitive sport I have finally found something rewarding and completely enjoyable, and I definitely do not find it "sad" that I now want to do triathlon for as long as I can!
My name is Stephen Barrett originally from Ireland but now based here in Loughborough in the UK. I want to continue with this success and really focus on track racing especially leading up to the 2012 Olympics. I am travelling to Brisbane, Australia in September of this year for 4 months to get in some good training and top class racing and will return to Loughborough in January to continue my assault on becoming one of the top track cyclists in the world.
I started swimming when I was nine years old in a club in new northern with a friend - Emma Campbell..... It is interesting to note that all my friend I used to go swimming with used to beat me...... what shall we say - the Irish are just talented....... I stayed swimming there for eleven years week in week out.... I entered Ulster championships and the first time I won anything was when I was twelve - my then coach Pearce McGuiggin - he forecasted that I would have a good swimming career - he spoke to my mum and dad - and the real reality of training at five o clock in the morning finally had meaning. It is fair to say that life as a swimmer is brutal.
My triathlon career started out at the Borough of Barnsley Swimming Club at the age of 8. I was never a world-class swimmer; I competed at county level on numerous occasions but never getting into the medals. At the age of 13 I competed in my first triathlon, the Ipswich Junior Triathlon. My main aim for the year is to get to Clearwater 70.3 World Championships in Novemeber, and have a crack at the Lifetime Fitness series in the US during the summer. I will also hit a couple of other 70.3's possibly in the states, and hit 70.3 UK in June.