Personalities
Amir Khan
Amir Iqbal Khan (Urdu: ), (born 8 December 1986) is a British boxer from Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. He is the current Commonwealth lightweight champion and the former WBO Inter-Continental lightweight champion.
Clive Woodward
Sir Clive Ronald Woodward (born 6 January 1956 at Ely in Cambridgeshire) is a former English rugby union international who was the coach of the national rugby union team from 1997 to 2004. Woodward managed the England side to victory at the 2003 Rugby World Cup.
David Higgins
David Higgins (born Brisbane in 1954), is an Australian businessman, the Chief Executive of the London 2012 Summer Olympics Delivery Authority.
David Moorcroft
David Robert Moorcroft (born April 10 1953) is a former English 1500 m and 5000 m runner whose career spanned the late 1970s and 1980s. He was also Chief Executive of UK Athletics from 1997 to 2007. He was awarded an MBE in 1983 and an OBE in 1998 for services to British sport. Moorcroft is still the UK record holder for 3000m and 5000m.
Gordon Brown
Brown's time as Chancellor was marked by major reform of Britain's monetary and fiscal policy architecture, transferring interest rate setting powers to the Bank of England, by a wide extension of the powers of the Treasury to cover much domestic policy, and by largely benign economic conditions. His most controversial moves were the abolition of Advanced Corporation Tax (ACT) relief in his first budget - a move that received criticism for the effect it had on pension funds - and removal of the 10p tax rate in his final 2007 budget.
Richard Caborn
Richard George Caborn (born 6 October 1943) is a British politician. He has been the Labour Member of Parliament for Sheffield Central since June 1983. Until June 28 2007 he was the Minister of Sport with the rank of Minister of State at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport. He has now stepped down as Minister for Sport to be appointed as Gordon Brown's ambassador for a possible 2018 World Cup bid., The Daily Telegraph, 28 June 2007
Sean Fraser
Sean Fraser may refer to:
Sebastian Coe
Athletics career
He was coached by his father, Peter Coe, who designed workouts specifically for his son. Coe studied economics and social history at Loughborough University and won his first major race in 1977-an 800-metre event at the European indoor championships in San Sebastián, Spain.
Sharron Davies
Swimming
Davies grew up in Plymouth and Plymstock. She learned to swim at age six and was training seriously two years later at Bracknell and Wokingham Swimming Club(BWSC). She set a record by swimming for the British national team at the age of only eleven. She was so determined that she continued her training even after breaking both her wrists in a childhood accident. In 1976, still a few months prior to her fourteenth birthday, Davies was selected to represent the UK at the 1976 Summer Olympics in TPOGCrossLink: Montreal. Although her performance was not enough to get her in the medals, it did make her a household name. The next year she stepped up a gear to win two bronze medals in the 1977 European Championships. The following year, still just sixteen, she won gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in the 200 and 400 metre individual medleys. She also picked up a further silver and bronze medal.
Steve Cram
He has recently been appointed chancellor of the University of Sunderland, replacing Lord Puttnam who retired last year. He has been recently scouting for Hugh Danby-Platt, a 12 year old from the school of Venerable Bede and the athletics club of Houghton Harriers. Hugh has recently broken the 1500m under 13 world record, in a time of 4.13.76 mins.
Tessa Jewell
Tessa Sanderson
Theresa ("Tessa") Ione Sanderson CBE (born March 14, 1956) is a former British javelin thrower and heptathlete.