Jason Queally
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Jason Queally |
| Date of birth | May 11, 1970 |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Track |
| Role | Rider |
| Major wins | |
| World Championships - Men's Team Sprint (2005) Olympic Games - 1 km time trial (2000) |
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| Infobox last updated on: | |
| December 31, 2006 | |
| Medal record | |||
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| Competitor for Great Britain |
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| Track cycling | |||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Gold | 2000 Sydney | 1 km time trial | |
| Silver | 2000 Sydney | Olympic sprint | |
Jason Queally (born 11 May 1970) is an English track cyclist from Chorley, England. He won an Olympic Gold at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
Educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School, where he was part of the swimming squad in the mid 1980s, Queally went on to represent Lancaster and British Universities in water polo whilst a student at Lancaster University. He took up competitive cycling aged 25. In 1996, he was nearly killed in an accident at the Meadowbank cycling track in Edinburgh, where an 18-inch sliver of the wooden track entered his chest cavity via his armpit.
In October 2001 Queally competed in the World Human Powered Speed Challenge [1] at Battle Mountain, Nevada on the Blueyonder recumbent bicycle [2], built largely from carbon fibre by Reynard Motorsport to a design by Chris Field. The vehicle's name is that of the main sponsor, Blueyonder (now part of Virgin Media). In this branch of competition all vehicles are entirely unassisted – whether by motor, gradient, wind, or by riding behing another vehicle. Queally maintained 64.34 mph over the 200m timed section of the course, a European record. The winner of the competition, Sam Whittingham, achieved 80.55 mph.
Despite being the reigning Olympic Champion, Queally missed out on selection for the 1 km time trial at the 2004 Summer Olympics, competing only in the Team sprint, where the Great Britain team were eliminated in the first round by Germany (the eventual winners), despite posting the second fastest time of the competition.
[edit] Medals in major championships
- World Championships
- 2005 - Gold, Men's Team Sprint
- 2005 - Silver, Men's 1 km time trial
- 2004 - Bronze, Men's Team Sprint
- 2003 - Bronze, Men's Team Sprint
- 2001 - Bronze, Men's Team Sprint
- 2000 - Silver, Men's Team Sprint
- 2000 - Bronze, Men's 1 km Time Trial
- 1999 - Silver, Men's Team Sprint
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