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Sir Andrew Witty
Andrew Witty on 16 September 2010 in Washington, D.C.
Born	(1964-08-22)August 22, 1964
Occupation	CEO, GlaxoSmithKline
Salary	GB£948,000[1]
Spouse	Caroline M. Witty (née Hall)
Children	2 [2]

Sir Andrew Philip Witty (born 22 August 1964^[2]) is the CEO of GlaxoSmithKline.

Early life[link]

Witty attended Malbank School (originally the "Nantwich and Acton Grammar School") in Nantwich, and then gained a BA in Economics from the University of Nottingham.^[2][3]

Career[link]

Witty joined Glaxo UK in 1985 as a management trainee.^[4] He held various positions in the UK, including Director of Pharmacy & Distribution in Glaxo Pharmaceuticals UK,^[5] Director of Business Development of Biocompatibles Limited and International Product Manager of Glaxo Holdings PLC. He served as Managing Director of Glaxo South Africa and Area Director of South and East Africa.

He served as a Vice President and General Manager of Marketing of Glaxo Wellcome Inc., a subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline with responsibility for strategy development, marketing execution and new product positioning. He served as an economic adviser to the Governor of Guangzhou, China from 2000-02.^[6]

He was appointed President, Pharmaceuticals Europe of GlaxoSmithKline plc in January 2003^[6] and succeeded Dr. Jean-Pierre Garnier as CEO following his retirement in May 2008. He is paid an annual salary of GB£948,000 and receives bonuses and other compensation amounting to GB£2,180,000 for this role.^[1][7]

In February 2009 he pledged to make a major change in the way GSK pharmaceuticals are priced in an attempt to make vital drugs more affordable in countries with the lowest incomes. At the same time he announced that GSK would place certain patents in a pool so that they were freely available for others in the search for new drugs.^[8]

Public bodies[link]

Witty serves as a Director of Singapore Economic Development Board, and on the Imperial College Commercialisation Advisory Board. He is a member of the INSEAD UK Council, Health Innovation Council in the UK and a Director of the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research. He is also a member of the Economic Development Board audit committee as well as a board member of the Singapore Land Authority Board.^[6]

Knighthood[link]

Witty was knighted in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to the economy and the UK pharmaceutical industry.^[9]

Personal life[link]

Witty is a noted marathon runner, and ran the London Marathon in 2008.^[10][11]

He lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife, Caroline, and two children.^[12]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Andrew Witty’s biography from GlaxoSmithKline

Beth Tweddle
Beth Tweddle during her win in the floor final of the 2009 World Championships
Personal information
Full name	Elizabeth Kimberly Tweddle
Country represented	United Kingdom  England
Born	(1985-04-01) 1 April 1985 (age 27) Johannesburg, South Africa
Hometown	Bunbury, Cheshire
Height	161 centimetres (5 ft 3 in)[1]
Weight	53 kilograms (120 lb)[1]
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Level	International
Club	City of Liverpool (first club- Hartford School Of Gymnastics)
Gym	City of Liverpool Gymnastics
Head coach(es)	Amanda Reddin
Assistant coach(es)	Zoltan Jordanov
Choreographer	Corina Morosan
Medal record World Championships Gold 2006 Aarhus Uneven Bars Gold 2009 London Floor Gold 2010 Rotterdam Uneven Bars Bronze 2003 Anaheim Uneven Bars Bronze 2005 Melbourne Uneven Bars World Cup Final Gold 2006 Sao Paolo Uneven Bars Silver 2004 Birmingham Uneven Bars Silver 2006 Sao Paolo Floor European Championships Gold 2006 Volos Uneven Bars Gold 2009 Milan Uneven Bars Gold 2009 Milan Floor Gold 2010 Birmingham Uneven Bars Gold 2010 Birmingham Floor Gold 2011 Berlin Uneven Bars Silver 2004 Amsterdam Uneven Bars Silver 2007 Amsterdam Floor Silver 2008 Clermont-Ferrand Floor Silver 2010 Birmingham Team Bronze 2002 Patras Uneven Bars Commonwealth Games Gold 2002 Manchester Uneven Bars Silver 2002 Manchester Team Silver 2002 Manchester All-Around

Elizabeth "Beth" Kimberly Tweddle MBE (born 1 April 1985) is an English gymnast. Tweddle is a three time world champion having won the 2010 World Championships and 2006 World Championships on the uneven bars and the 2009 World Championships on the floor. Tweddle was the first gymnast from Britain ever to win a medal at the World and European Championships, and is considered to be the most successful British gymnast of all time.^{[2][3][4][5][6]} She is also a seven-time British National Champion, having won the title every year between 2001 and 2007.^[7]

Background[link]

Beth Tweddle was born in Johannesburg, South Africa where her father was temporarily employed, and moved to England with her family when she was 18 months old.^[8] She was raised in Bunbury, Cheshire, England. Tweddle began competing in gymnastics at the age of seven^[4] at a local club (Crewe and Nantwich Gymnastics Club ^[9]), and was named to the British junior national team in 1994. In 1997, she moved to the City of Liverpool Gymnastics Club. Tweddle trains alongside other British gymnasts, such as Hannah Whelan.^[10] Tweddle won the British senior National Championships for the first time in 2001.^[6] Tweddle was a member of the City of Liverpool Gymnastics Club team, which has won the British Team Championships five times.^[11] Tweddle attended the Queens School in Chester.

Gymnastics career[link]

2001–2004[link]

Beth Tweddle first major senior international competition was the 2001 World Championships, placing 24th in the all-around and ninth in the team event.^[12]

In 2002 Tweddle won a bronze medal on the uneven bars at the 2002 European Artistic Gymnastic Championships (European Championships) in Patras, Greece, the first medal won by a British gymnast at a European Championship.^[3][13] At the 2002 World Championships, Tweddle finished fourth on the uneven bars whilst at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, she won the all-around event and the uneven bars and finished second in the team event.^[14]

In 2003 Tweddle won a bronze on the uneven bars at the World Championships, becoming the first British gymnast ever to medal at a World Championships.^[3][15]

In 2004, Tweddle won a silver medal on the uneven bars and placing fifth with the British team at the European Championships. At the Athens Olympics,^[12][16] Tweddle finished eleventh in the team competition and nineteenth in the all-around.^[12] At the 2004 World Cup finals in Birmingham, Tweddle won a silver medal on the uneven bars and placed fifth on floor.^[12]

2005-2008[link]

During the 2005 season, Tweddle withdrew from the European Championships through injury, after qualifying in the top eight for all events.^{[citation needed]} At the 2005 World Championships, Tweddle finished fourth in the floor and third in uneven bars.^[17] Due to injury sustained during the uneven bars, Tweddle withdrew from floor competition^{[citation needed]}.

Tweddle missed the 2006 Commonwealth Games due to injury,^[17] but later in the year won the gold medal on the uneven bars at the European Championships. Her victory was the first at a European Championships for a British gymnast.^[3]

In October 2006, Tweddle became Britain's first ever gymnastics World Champion by winning the uneven bars event with a score of 16.200 in the 2006 World Championships in Aarhus, Denmark,^[18] ahead of 2005 World Champion Nastia Liukin despite having only qualified in fifth place and having fallen from the bars in the all-around. Tweddle also finished fifth in the floor finals. At the final major competition of 2006, the World Cup final, Tweddle won the uneven bars.^[12]

Tweddle won her seventh consecutive British National Championship title in July 2007.^[7] Later in the year, she competed with the British team at the 2007 World Championships, helping them to qualify a full team to the 2008 Olympics, but placed out of the medals in all events.^[12][19]

At the 2008 European Championships in April, Tweddle won a silver medal on the floor and placed fourth on the uneven bars.^[20]

At the 2008 Olympics ^[16][21] Tweddle finished 4th on the uneven bars with a score of 16.625.^[22]

2009–2012[link]

At the 2009 European Championships, Tweddle won gold medals on both floor exercise and bars.^[23] Tweddle also won both events at the Glasgow Grand Prix.^[24]

At the 2009 World Championships held in London Tweddle failed to qualify to the uneven Bars final, but won the Floor competition.^[25]

Tweddle again took two gold medals at the 2010 European Championship in Birmingham, retaining both floor and bars titles. The British team, of which she was part, also won silver in the team competition.

At the 2010 World Championships in Rotterdam, in a reverse of her performance at the World Championships in 2009, Tweddle failed to qualify for the floor final, but won the gold medal in the uneven Bars final. Tweddle was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.^[26]

The next year, she failed to qualify for any event finals by a relatively weak showing on the uneven bars, but went on to earn a 15.666 in Team Finals, which would have edged World champion Viktoria Komova for the Uneven bars title by 0.166. However, Beth Tweddle helped her team to earn a fifth place finish, the best team results of the British Gymnastics Team ever.

At the English Championships held in March 2012, Tweddle competed a slightly altered and rearranged routine with a double-double (two somersaults with two full twists) dismount which is attempted by only few female gymnasts. She went on to compete at the FIG World Cup event in Doha, where she won Gold on the uneven bars ^[27]

Other activities[link]

Tweddle graduated from Liverpool John Moores University with a degree in Sports Science in 2007.^[6] After retiring, she plans to become a physiotherapist.^[2]

As a result of her success in international gymnastics, Tweddle was nominated for, and finished in third place, for the 2006 BBC Sports Personality of the Year, the only British gymnast ever to make the short list for the award.^[28]

Competitive history[link]

Results as per Tweddle's official competition record at the International Gymnastics Federation athlete profile page.^[12]

2001[link]

2002[link]

2003[link]

2004[link]

2005[link]

2006[link]

2007[link]

2008[link]

2009[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Elizabeth Tweddle

• Official website
• Beth Tweddle at Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
• Students interview Beth Tweddle

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Graham Edmunds

Personal information
Full name	Graham Edmunds
Nationality	British
Born	(1974-09-22) 22 September 1974 (age 37) Reading
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Stroke(s)	50 Freestyle, 100 Freestyle 34 point Freestyle Relay
Club	Swansea
Medal record Men's swimming Competitor for  Great Britain Paralympic Games Gold 2004 Athens 4×100 m freestyle – 34 pts Gold 2008 Beijing 4×100 m freestyle – 34 pts

Graham Edmunds (born 22 September 1974) is a British swimmer who has competed in two Paralympic Games, winning two gold medals in world record times.^[1][2] He was a member of the Reading Swimming Club where he was also a part time lifeguard and coached the Cygnets, Reading's club for swimmers with learning difficulties.^[3]

Accident[link]

In October 2000 Edmunds was knocked off his motorcycle whilst riding to work on the A4. His injuries were so severe that doctors considered amputating both of his legs and believed that he would never walk again.^[3] He spent three months with his legs in casts before beginning swimming again as part of his physiotherapy routine. Because he had limited movement in his ankle joints he qualified as a disabled swimmer in the S10 category. When Edmunds met the British Paralympic coach Billy Pye he decided to begin training for the 2004 Summer Paralympics, but had to move to Swansea to make use of the High Performance Training Centre as Reading had no Olympic-size swimming pool.^[3][4]

Paralympics[link]

Edmunds made his first appearance at the Paralympics in 2004. He competed in two individual S10 classification freestyle events as well as the 4×100 m freestyle 34 pts relay team. In the individual 100 m he was knocked out in the heats but he made the final of the 50 m finishing in sixth.^[5][6] The relay team, which also featured David Roberts, Robert Welbourn and Matt Walker, set a new world record time of 3  59.62  seconds to win the gold medal ahead of Australia on the day of Edmunds 30th birthday.^[7][8]

In 2008 Edmunds won a silver medal and set a new British record in the S10 50 m freestyle at the British Swimming Championships.^[9] He made his second Paralympic appearance for Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, held in Beijing, China. Edmunds raced in the same three events as in 2004 as well as the 4×100 m medley 34 pts relay team. he made the finals of both his individual events but failed to win a medal, finishing seventh in the 100 m and eighth in the 50 m. In the medley the Great Britain team made the final but finished fifth, 17 seconds behind the new world record time set by gold medallists Australia.^[10] The freestyle relay quartet of Edmunds, Roberts, Walker and Welbourn successfully defended the title they had won in Athens setting a new world record of 3 minutes 51.43 seconds on route to winning gold.^[1]

At the 2009 European Paralympic Swimming Championships in Reykjavik, Edmunds won an individual bronze medal in the men's S10 50 m freestyle and a gold medal in the 34 point 4x100 m freestyle competing with Walker, Welbourn and Jonathan Fox.^[11][12]

In 20101 Edmunds was appointed to UK Anti-Doping's newly formed Athlete's Committee along with fellow Paralympian Helene Raynsford.^[13][14]

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Graham Edmunds, Swimming.org