| Suzy
went to Nailsworth Primary School and started playing table tennis
at the age of 8 years at Forest Green Table Tennis Club, she is
still the only Gloucestershire player ever to win the Cotswold
Junior Open 3Star Championships in its 37 year history.
Suzy was selected to play for England schools
team in international competitions on 3 occasions, winning gold,
silver and bronze medals.
She captained the victorious Bath University
Ladies Table Tennis Team at the BUSAC in 2001 and has been a member
of the Glos. County Senior Table tennis Team for 7 years, which last
gained promotion to the English Table Tennis Association Senior
County Premier Division for the first time since 1968.
For the last two years Suzy has won the Great
Britain Police Ladies Singles Championships and has had the
opportunity to travel to France, Austria and Holland. |
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Another Nailsworth Primary School pupil, Peter is a Sub Lieutenant
in the Royal Navy and he started rowing seriously 4 years ago at the
University of West of England (UWE) where he was invited to join the
University’s Rowing Squad after using the sports centre rowing
machine.
His only previous
experience of rowing was in a dingy on Nailsworth stream at the age
of 8 years!
As President of UWE rowing club
he led his team to their first regatta victory against Bristol
University in 2003.
In 2004 and 2005 he rowed in the
Blue Boat for Oxford. He was selected for the GB Coxless Four,
filling seats once occupied by great rowers such as Sir Steve
Redgrave and Sir Matthew Pinsent.
The team won the Stewards Cup at
Henley Royal Regatta and Gold in all three World Cup Regattas and
the World Championships in Japan.
Peter repeated his feats of 2005
in 2006 by staying unbeaten in his GB four, retaining the World Cup
and then the world title at Eton's Dorney lake near Windsor.
His
contribution and progress in rowing is outstanding |
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Dan was
educated in Gloucestershire and Berkshire, he took up running in
1998 whilst working in a gym and fitness centre in Henley on Thames,
and his fitness level progressed rapidly.
He came to prominence when finishing 20th
in the Great North Run in October 1999, he joined Tipton Harriers at
the end of that year. In 2001 he came 2nd in the National
Half Marathon Championships and was selected to represent UK in the
World Half Marathon and finished 57th.
He narrowly missed selection for the English
team for the Commonwealth Games in 2002. In April 2004 he was the
second UK runner home in the London Marathon and his time 2 hours,
13 minutes 53 seconds. This qualified him for the Olympic Games in
Athens, 2004, he finished 22nd in the Olympic Marathon.
In August 2005 he finished 12th in
the Marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, being
the second European to finish.
Dan was selected to represent England in the
Melbourne Commonwealth Games in March 2006 coming 3rd and
achieving his first Bronze Medal, and the first Briton to win an
international men’s championship marathon for 12 years.
He now runs for the Stroud & District
Athletics Club, coaches at Beaudesert Park School and works part
time for a local property company. |
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