BIATHLON UK - Key Persons
Honorary Member Bob Anderson. Biathlete, Royal Signals Team Coach and GBR Junior Team Coach, Bob spent over 20 years at the coal-face of coaching biathlon, and is now an IBU Referee, range organiser at the GBR Championships, and supporter to a great many teams with his RMA Sports www.biathlonsport.com supplying just about everything a Biathlon Team could ever need.
Job Titles:
- Honorary Vice - President
Honorary Vice-President Eddy Lowe BEM. Biathlete since the days of full-bore, manager of the GBR Team for 2 Olympic Games, project manager for the Glenmore Lodge Biathlon Centre, founder Board member of the BBU and Director of the BBU 1996-2016: Eddy is still a regular at the GBR Championships each year as the IBU Technical Delegate.
Emma Fowler became GBR's first-ever female Olympic biathlete in 2006 Turin, and Adele (Turner) Walker, who took over the GBR No 1 slot and raced in numerous World Championships, became the first British athlete ever - male or female - to score a 'possible' - the perfect 0-0-0-0 at any British Championship.....and she did so more than once!
With over 290 biathlon and cross-country races since 1981 - including podium places in major events, and over 100 rollerski races, Gordon's first UK win was the 1986 30km Classical Glenisla March, and his individual peak was 90, 91 and 92 when he was 4 times GB Amateur Biathlon Champion (the sole non-National biathlete in the Top 10 at the GBR Championships 20km and 10km in Germany), twice the UK Biathlon Champion at the UKLF Championships in Clashindarroch in 90 and 91, and later in 1998 scored a record 0-0-1-0 in the 20km to come 11th at the GBR Championships in Ruhpolding - which inspired him to racing a further 10 years biathlon and 12 years cross-country!
Gordon was Manager of the GBR Junior Biathlon Team 1988-1990, a founding Board Member of the national governing body The British Biathlon Union (BBU) in 1996, and formally appointed to be the BBU's Subject Matter Expert (SME) on safety, range conducting, coaching and training and assessing for formal biathlon qualifications. His first major task was responding for the BBU to the Army's report on the major range accident at the Les Contamines Div Meeting in 2001, and then - more importantly - organising the consequent myriad of projects to bring biathlon back from the brink. All this included designing, building and operating the first ever and only military-certificated biathlon range in the UK in 2002 (to add to his list of 5 earlier biathlon ranges, and several more since), and he then established and became Performance Director of the British Biathlon Academy 2003-2015, which produced all the athletes for the GBR Senior Squad based in Ruhpolding.
Gordon has several awards for leadership, and an International Olympic Committee Commendation. He's also a Chartered Engineering Consultant; the Club's principal designer and Duty Holder for all our biathlon ranges and operations in the UK and Ireland; authoriser of all Training, Competences & Qualifications (TCQ); and lead project manager for capability development, with major projects in Scotland, London, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. His favourite ‘office' is a biathlon range - any biathlon range will do - mentoring the ‘noble art' of biathlon. His second favourite ‘office' is a trad music session.......any session will do.
Job Titles:
- Honorary Vice - President
Honorary Vice-President Mark Goodson. Biathlete in the days of Divisional Individual Championships over 20km with an SLR, Goody has been a force for biathlon ..... forever, it seems. A founding Board Member of the BBU in 1996, and BBU Secretary-General until 2016, Goody served on numerous IBU Committees, and is still to the fore at the GBR Championships every year where his preferred front office is the eagle's nest commentary box.