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HE is one of the UK’s highest-profile athletes and it’s not hard to see why.

Only two years ago Gordon won his first Grand Slam titles in doubles with wins at the French and US Open along with partner Shingo Kunieda.

Since then he’s won the Wimbledon and Australian Open singles titles, and landed a gold medal at the 2016 Paralympics in Rio.

In 2014 and 2015 Gordon was named Tennis Scotland International Player of the Year, sharing the accolade with Sir Andy Murray in 2015. AFTER the disappointment of missing out on London 2012 – by just 0.11 seconds – Edinburgh’s Scott Quin quickly bounced back.

The following March he won gold in the 100m breaststroke at the British Gas International event.

He landed the silver at the European Championships in 2014 (in the 100m breaststroke SB14) before going one better last year by securing the gold medal in the same event.

Scott, who has Crouzon syndrome and tunnel vision, landed silver medal in Rio last year – missing out on gold by three-hundredths of a second. ANYONE familiar with Scottish Parasports will be familiar with the name Andrew Mullen. Despite being only 20, Andrew – born with a shortened left leg – recently returned from Rio 2016, his second Paralympics.

It was another success for the Glaswegian, after he secured a silver medal, in the 50m backstroke S5, and two bronzes, in the 100m freestyle S5 and the 200m freestyle S5.

And that’s in addition to the seven gold medals he’s won over the past three years in the European Championships. PARACYCLING star Neil Fachie became a hero for Scotland and all of the UK at London 2012.

Aberdeen-born Fachie secured a stunning gold for Team GB in the Tandem B Kilo at London’s Velopark, setting a new World Record in the process. And at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, Neil, who is visually impaired, was roared on in the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome to secure two gold medals in the Tandem B Kilo and the Tandem B Sprint.

The 32-year-old also added to his success with a fantastic silver in the Tandem B Kilo in Rio last year.