Gary Anderson

Gary Anderson first made his mark as an 18-year-old at the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1986 when he won two silver and two bronze medals. Four years later, he dominated the track cycling programme at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland – he won his specialist event, the individual pursuit, was a member of the winning pursuit team, and won the track finale, the 10-mile. Two years later, in Barcelona, Anderson became the first New Zealander to win an Olympic cycling medal when he was third in the individual pursuit. His Commonwealth Games medal collection was interrupted when a near-fatal accident in Pennsylvania cost him any chance of competing at Kuala Lumpur in 1998.