Biographies (continued)

Presenter and pundit biographies for the Commonwealth Games 2014 on the BBC.

Published: 16 July 2014
  • Former two-time world champion winning WBA, WBA (Super) and IBF Light welterweight titles
  • Amir is the youngest British Olympic boxing medalist, winning Silver at the 2004 Athens Olympics aged 17
  • Also one of the youngest British World Champions ever, winning the WBA Light Welterweight title at age 22
  • Honours include three English school titles, Junior ABA Title, Gold at the 2003 Junior Olympics and Gold at the 2004 Junior World Championships

Non Stanford (Triathlon)

  • 2013 ITU Triathlon World Champion
  • Won the ITU Triathlon U23 World Championships in Auckland in 2012
  • Non became the first woman to step up from U23 level and win the senior world title the next year, at London’s Hyde Park in 2013
  • Trains alongside Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee

Pamela Cookey (Netball)

  • Included on the England national netball team for the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games Pamela was unable to participate due to a knee injury
  • Made her senior debut with England in 2004 against Australia
  • Won bronze with the England team at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games and 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games
  • Won silver at the 2010 World Netball Series

Rob Hayles (Cycling)

  • Three-time Olympic medalist and double Track World Champion
  • Rob won his first national title in the kilo in 1993 representing Great Britain
  • Represented Great Britain in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic and England in the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games
  • Won the 2008 national road championships

Sarah Storey (Cycling)

  • Britain's most successful ever Paralympian
  • Has won six Paralympic Cycling Gold medals
  • Sarah began her career as a swimmer winning two golds, three silver and a bronze medal in Barcelona in 1992 aged 14
  • Sarah was the first disabled cyclist to compete for England at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games against non-disabled cyclists

Louise Hazel (Heptathlon)

  • Won Gold at the 2012 Delhi Commonwealth Games with a personal best of 6156 points
  • Senior member of the Great Britain Athletics Team since the age of 17
  • Louise has competed at European, Commonwealth, World and Olympic level for the past decade retiring from athletics in 2013
  • Louise had to abandon plans to come out of retirement and compete at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth due to her training schedule being disrupted by a flare-up of ulcerative colitis