Jason Queally
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| Full name | Jason Paul Queally | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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11 May 1970 Great Haywood, Staffordshire, England |
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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 spent his childhood in Caton with Littledale, a village near Lancaster. He attended Caton County Primary School and 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 when an 18-inch sliver of the wooden track entered his chest via his armpit.
The accident seriously affected Queally's confidence in tactical racing, with other riders present; as a result, he chose to dedicate himself to Kilo and team sprint riding, time trial events with a reduced risk of crashing.
In October 2001 Queally competed in the World Human Powered Speed Challenge at Battle Mountain, Nevada on the Blueyonder recumbent bicycle, 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.
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