Ross Edgar

After being marked out as a prodigious talent at a very early age, Ross Edgar earned himself a place at the UCI's World Cycling School in Switzerland before winning his first senior medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Lining up for Scotland - due to his ancestry - Edgar teamed up with Sir Chris Hoy and Craig MacLean to claim bronze in the men's team sprint event. A European Under 23 sprint title followed in 2004, and he backed that up with a silver in 2005, before another hugely-successful 2006 Commonwealth Games campaign yielded three further medals. The highlight of those came alongside Hoy and MacLean once again as the trio sprinted to victory in Melbourne. Ross's first World Championships medals came in the form of a bronze in the keirin and a silver for the team sprint in 2007 - and another team sprint silver was to follow in 2008. Edgar's greatest achievement to date came later that year though when he sealed an Olympic silver medal after going head-to-head with Hoy in an all-British keirin final. From there he spent some time studying his trade at the prestigious International Keirin School in Japan and returned to Europe to take another team sprint silver at the 2009 World Championships in Poland. Edgar's remarkable run of success showed no signs of abating in 2010 and he earned a World Championship bronze in the team sprint category before taking the national keirin title in Manchester.