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Lamin Dean
Event: Bobsleigh
Born: 17.06.1981
Lives: Bath
Club: British Bobsleigh Association
Games Attended: None
Major Achievements: World Championships: 23rd (four-man), 24th (two-man) 2013 | 26th (two-man) 2011
About: Scouted while running the 100m at a British Army athletics meet, pilot Lamin Deen hasn’t looked back since making his bobsleigh debut in 2007.
He went on to become the army and inter-service champion in 2011 and has risen to the rank of sergeant in the British Army Grenadier Guards, having joined at the age of 16.
Lizzy Yarnold
Event: Skeleton
Born: 30.10.1988
Lives: Bath
Club: British Skeleton, Bath
Games Attended: None
Major Achievements: World Championships: Bronze 2012 | Skeleton World Cup: Gold 2013 & 2014
About: Spotted by UK Sport in 2008 as part of the Girls4Gold search, Lizzy Yarnold has made an instant impact in skeleton.
This season she has dominated the World Cup circuit, securing seven straight podiums, including four race wins to become the most successful British skeleton slider in a single World Cup campaign.
Callum Smith
Event: Cross Country Skiing
Born: 12.10.1992
From: Bristol
Club: Huntly, Aberdeenshire
Games Attended: None
Major Achievements: World Championships: 97th (15km freestyle) | 26th (team sprint) 2013
About: Born and raised in Bristol, Callum Smith took a year out of his chemical engineering degree at the University of Edinburgh in order to focus all his efforts on qualifying for Sochi.
He is set to return in September to begin his third year.
Shelley Rudman
Event: Skeleton
Born: 23.03.1981
From: Pewsey, Wiltshire
Club: British Skeleton, Bath
Games Attended: Two (Turin 2006, Vancouver 2010)
Major Achievements: Olympic Games: Silver 2006 | World Championships: Gold 2013
About: Shelley Rudman was Britain's only medallist at the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Turinin and represented Team GB in her second Olympic Winter Games at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, where she finished sixth in the women's skeleton.
In between the 2 Olympic Games Rudman had daughter Ella-Marie with fiancé and fellow Team GB skeleton athlete Kristan Bromley.
Dominic Parsons
Event: Skeleton
Born: 08.09.1987
Lives: Bath
Club: British Skeleton, Bath
Games Attended: None
Major Achievements: World Championships: 9th 2013
About: Dominic Parsons was introduced to skeleton by Olympian and IOC member Adam Pengilly during a barbecue in the summer of 2007 and started competing for Great Britain in January the following year.
He has one of the fastest starts in skeleton and was the top ranked British man at last year’s World Championships, finishing ninth in St Moritz.
Jenny Jones
Event: Snowboarding
Born: 03.07.1980
Lives: Bristol
Club: British Freestyle Team
Games Attended: None
Major Achievements: Winter X Games Europe: Gold 2010 | Winter X Games: Silver 2011
About: After a career spanning more than a decade, Jenny Jones will finally make her Olympic debut with slopestyle introduced for the first time for Sochi 2014.
She first started snowboarding aged 17 and has won three medals at the Winter X Games, including two golds in 2009 and 2010.
Bruce Tasker
Event: Bobsleigh
Born: 02.09.1987
Lives: Bath
Club: GB Bobsleigh, Bath
Games Attended: None
Major Achievements:
About: Nicknamed ‘Bigfoot’, he is the most experienced member of John Jackson’s first choice GBR1 crew.
The Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games will mark his Olympic debut, where the team will be hoping to build on their fifth place finish at the Olympic test event in the hope of a podium finish.
Paula Walker
Event: Bobsleigh
Born: 23.04.1986
Lives: Trowbridge
Club: GB Bobsleigh, Bath
Games Attended: One (Vancouver 2010)
Major Achievements: World Junior Championships: Gold 2011 | America Cup: Silver 2010
About: Paula Walker, a corporal in the Royal Signals, became the first GB driver to win the world junior title in 2011 and has established herself as Britain’s first-choice senior.
She finished 11th with Kelly Thomas on her Olympic debut at Vancouver 2010 but has enjoyed success since with brake women Bex Wilson and Gillian Cooke.