Callum Skinner is an 18 year old professional cyclist on the British Academy Track sprint residential programme. He has competed in the Commmonwealth games in Dehli representing Scotland and finished 4th in the Team Sprint!

Callum contacted us earlier this year to ask for our help by providing some Magicshine UK bikelights to help with his winter training and to help him suceed with his goal of reaching the 2012 Olympic games.  How could we refuse?

Training is going well and on Good Friday 2011 he competed at the Manchester Velodrome gaining a personal best in the flying 200m of 10.4 knocking an amazing 0.5 secs off his previous PB. More encouraging results came from the Kerin event, where Callum was up against the Olympic Silver medalist Ross Edgar, and also Dave Daniel and Peate Mitchell two of his team mates from the acedemy.  Callum won, another excellent result as he won't mind me saying that he started the final as the underdog!

In Callum's last update he told us that he has now been selected to ride at the under 23 European Championships in Portugal in late July, as part of the three man sprint team, and hopefully the Kerin and the Individual Sprint.  Another amazing result, bearing in mind he is still only 18 and he has been selected over two other 23 year old professional riders, in what was another hotly contested selection process.

Watch this space for information on the event in the last week of July.  Good Luck Callum!