Jason Queally

Jason Queally is an English track cyclist, born on 11 May 1970 at Great Haywood in Staffordshire, who won the gold medal in the 1 km time trial at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney and a silver in the team sprint at the same Games. He took up cycle racing at 25, and in 1996 he nearly died when an 18 inch sliver of the wooden track entered his chest in a crash at Meadowbank in Edinburgh, after which he dedicated himself to kilo and team sprint riding. He won world team sprint gold in 2005 and was appointed MBE in 2001. He retired from able-bodied cycling after missing the 2008 Olympic team, later worked as a pilot on Paralympic tandems, and was inducted into the British Cycling Hall of Fame in 2009.