Ed McKeever
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Ed McKeever in Bath, Somerset is a British
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...

 kayak athlete and current World and European Champion. He won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held 19–22 August 2010 in Poznań, Poland, on Lake Malta. This is the third time that the Polish city will host the championships, having done so previously in 1990 and 2001...

 in Poznań
Poznan
Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...

 with a gold in the K-1 200 m and a silver in the K-1 4 x 200 m events.

2010 was McKeevers most successful year to date, not only did he win the World Championships he also won the K1 200m at the European Championships in Trasona
Trasona
Trasona / Tresona is one of seven parishes in the Corvera de Asturias municipality, within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain.The population is 2,004 .-Villages:*El Cuetu*Fafilán...

, Spain and the kayak World Cup race in Szeged
Szeged
' is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county town of Csongrád county. The University of Szeged is one of the most distinguished universities in Hungary....

, Hungary. McKeever still competes for the Bradford on Avon canoe club, despite moving to south Buckinghamshire to be train at the 2012 Olympic race venue of Dorney lake.

McKeever has a BA (Hons) in accountancy and finance at Kingston University
Kingston University
Kingston University is a public research university located in Kingston upon Thames, southwest London, United Kingdom. It was originally founded in 1899 as Kingston Technical Institute, a polytechnic, and became a university in 1992....

 and it will not be long before he is an ACCA
Acca
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qualified accountant.
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