Simon Roberts // PHOTOGRAPHY / British Olympians
Portraits of young British athletes who are hoping to make an impact at the 2012 Olympic Games to be hosted in London.
Tom Daley (1994) is a diver who specialises in the 10 metre platform event and is currently the FINA World Champion. Daley started diving at the age of seven, and is a member of Plymouth Diving Club. Mo Farah (1983) is a Somali-born British international track and field athlete. He holds the British road record for 10,000 metres, the British indoor record in the 3000 metres and the British track record for 5000 metres. Beth Tweddle MBE (1985), the three time world champion gymnast and is considered to be the most successful British gymnast of all time. Tweddle was the first gymnast from Britain ever to win a medal at the World and European Championships. Richard Kruse (1984) is Britain’s number one fencer who equalled Britain’s best ever Olympic result, making the last eight at the Athens Olympics. Fiona Pennie (1982) is a slalom canoeist who has competed internationally since 1997. She won a bronze medal at the Junior World Championships in 2000 and won the overall Junior World Cup Series in the same year. John McFall (1981) is a Cardiff-based Paralympic sprinter. In 2000, when he was 19 years old, his right leg was amputated above the knee following a serious motorcycle accident.
