Jason Queally
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| Full name | Jason Paul Queally | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 May 1970 Great Heywood, Staffordshire, England, UK |
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| Discipline | Track | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Infobox last updated on 31 December 2006 |
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Jason Paul Queally (born 11 May 1970) is an English track cyclist. He won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
Born at Great Heywood, Staffordshire, Queally attended Lancaster Royal Grammar School, where he was part of the swimming squad in the mid-1980s, later representing Lancaster and British Universities in water polo while a student at Lancaster University, where he earned a BSc in Biological Science. He took up cycle-racing at 25. In 1996, he nearly died in an accident at Meadowbank cycling track in Edinburgh[1] when an 18-inch sliver of the wooden track entered his chest via his armpit.[2]
In October 2001 Queally competed in the World Human Powered Speed Challenge[3] at Battle Mountain, Nevada on the Blueyonder recumbent bicycle,[4] built largely from carbon fibre by Reynard Motorsport to a design by Chris Field. Queally maintained 64.34 mph (103.55 km/h) over the 200m timed section of the course, a European record. The winner, Sam Whittingham, achieved 80.55 mph (129.63 km/h).
Although Olympic champion, Queally was not selected for the 1 km time trial at the 2004 Summer Olympics, competing only in the team sprint, in which Great Britain team was eliminated in the first round by Germany, the eventual winner, despite posting the second fastest time of the competition.
In 2009, Queally was inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame.[5]
[edit] Medals in championships
- Olympic Games
- 2000 - Gold, 1km time trial
[edit] References
- ^ Chris Hoy brought down all the riders behind him, having caught the wheel of Craig MacLean),
- ^ "HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com". hosted.ap.org. 2011 [last update]. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CYC_TRACK_WORLD_CUP_AWANGS_SURGERY?SITE=VANOV&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT. Retrieved 20 February 2011.
- ^ http://www.recumbents.com/WISIL/whpsc2001/speedchallenge-2001.htm
- ^ http://www.speed101.com/now/fastest_0908_4.htm
- ^ "50 Cycling Heroes Named in British Cycling's Hall of Fame". British Cycling. 2009-12-17. http://new.britishcycling.org.uk/sport/article/bc20091216-Hall-of-fame-fifty.
[edit] External links
- Jason Queally profile at Cycling Archives
- BBC News Online report of Queally's Olympic gold win
- 1970 births
- Living people
- English cyclists
- Track cyclists
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Cyclists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Olympic cyclists of Great Britain
- Olympic gold medalists for Great Britain
- English people of Irish descent
- Alumni of Lancaster University
- Old Lancastrians
- People from Chorley
- People from Staffordshire
- Olympic medalists in cycling
