Kathleen Dawson MBE

Swimming

Career Highlights:

Olympic Gold Medal (Mixed Medley Relay, Tokyo 2020)

World Record (Mixed Medley Relay, Tokyo 2020)

European Champion 100m Backstroke (Budapest 2020)

European Record Holder - 100m Backstroke

Kathleen won a gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in the Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay, in a world record time. She is also the current European Champion and European record holder in the 100m backstroke. 

Jordan Catchpole MBE

Para - Swimming

Career Highlights:

Paralympic Gold Medal (4 x 100m Freestyle Relay (S14), Tokyo 2020)

World Championship Silver (S14 100m Backstroke) and Bronze (S14                                    200m Freestyle) (London 2019)

European Para Swimming Gold Medal (S14 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay),                                Silver in S14 200m Freestyle and S14 100m Backstroke (2018)

Jordan is a swimmer who competes in the S14 Category. He has had global success across Paralympic and World Championships in the last few years, and will represent Great Britain at the 2022 Para Swimming World Championships in Madeira in June.

Sponsors/Partners:

Spectra Packaging

Wild Highlands Coffee

Kirsty Gilmour

Badminton

Career Highlights:

2 x Team GB Olympian (Rio 2016 & Tokyo 2020)

2 x Team Scotland Commonwealth Games Medalist

5 x European Medalist

European Championships 2022 - Silver Medal

Kirsty is a professional singles badminton player from Scotland, who competes on the BWF World Tour. Kirsty currently has a world ranking of No. 12, and has many career highlights including representing Great Britain at two Olympic Games (Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020) and Team Scotland at three Commonwealth Games (Delhi, Glasgow and Gold Coast. She is a 2 x Commonwealth Games medalist, and 5 x European Medalist.

Sponsors/Partners:

Yonex

Dion Leonard

Ultra-runner, author and motivational speaker

Dion is an author, inspirer, motivational speaker, and ultra-runner, who's iron will and innate ability to survive, led him to become one of the worlds top ultra runners. He competes in some of the toughest and most extreme ultra challenges across the planets most inhospitable locations.

One act of kindness would change Dion's life forever: during a 155 mile ultra race in the Gobi Desert in China, a stray dog started to run beside him, forming an unbreakable bond that would become the ultimate challenge of overcoming adversity. This life changing moment would become the New York Times, Sunday Times and International bestseller memoir 'Finding Gobi', which is also soon to become a movie.

Find out more about Dion, his story, and examples of some of his speaking engagements, visit https://www.dionleonard.com/ . 

Meryl Cooper

Team GB Ultra-runner

Career highlights:

British Ultra Trail Running Champion 2021 (Lakeland Trails 100k)

CCC - 6th place 2021

Trans Gran Canaria 2022 (62km) - 4th

Recent features:

https://www.sportsshoes.com/trail/trail-running/motivation/q-and-a-with-inov8-athletes-damian-hall-meryl-cooper-kirsty-hall/

https://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/66078-2/

https://youtu.be/ybfNvlxPw7Y

Sponsors/Partners:

Torq Nutrition

Inov8

Petzl

Pelotan

Wild Highlands Coffee

Kirsty Law

Team GB and Team Scotland Discus / Track and Field athlete

Career highlights:

Sponsors/Partners:

Joma

WIld Highlands Coffee

Scott Jenkins

Ultra Running / Adventurer

Scott Jenkins, is a Welsh ultra endurance runner / adventurer and philanthropist.

He has an impressive ultra running CV that spans across 12 years, completing numerous challenges and races along the way.

Scott first got the “ultra running bug” after completing 75 marathons in 75 days from Boston to Austin 2000 miles in 2010. He has since run the deserts of Death Valley and Dubai, the canyons of Utah and forested wilderness of Washington state.

In 2023, he became the first Briton to complete the Triple Crown of 200s ( a race series, all over 200 miles in distance, comprising of Tahoe 200, Bigfoot 200 and Moab 240), all within the space of just 2 and a half months. 

Scott's challenges and events have helped him raise more than £90,000 for charity. 

Sponsors/Partners:

Altra Running

Lucja Leonard

Ultra-runner and coach