Our Knowsley print works staff have shown they are up for a sporting challenge, from the Olympics to raising money for terminally ill children.

With the dust barely settled on the Rio Olympics, Knowsley print site worker Shaun Kelly is targeting a place at the 2020 Tokyo Games.

Shaun (above), 20, from Croxteth in Liverpool, is a rising sprint star with Olympic ambitions.

He works in the print finishing department at Knowsley and employed by Newsprinters’ business partner Aktrion since 2015.

The 100m/200m sprint star is currently training for a place in the 2020 Olympics. He is a member of the Liverpool Harriers & Athletic Club and team-mate of Katarina Johnson-Thompson, who finished sixth in the heptathlon at the Rio Olympics.

Shaun’s personal bests are 11.07secs for the 100m and 22.8secs in the 200m.

His training schedule sees him at the track up to five times a week and every lunch-hour in the Knowsley gym, despite working 12-hour shifts.

Shaun, who has achieved success at the Merseyside County Championships, said: “I’ve always liked sport and realised at 15 that I was becoming good at sprinting.

“I’m targeting Tokyo. You just have to work hard and hopefully it will come. Katarina has inspired me – she has made it.”

While a crack at Usain Bolt’s 9.58sec 100m world record is some way off, Shaun is full of admiration for the Jamaican sprint supremo.

Shaun said: “He is one of my idols – he makes it look easy.”

Meanwhile following in Shaun’s sporting footsteps, co-workers took part in the annual Trekfest challenge in the Peak District raising money for terminally ill children,

Technical services manager Ian Wilkinson, assistant group manufacturing services manager Fraser Cuthbertson, engineer Kevin Parker and security team leader Kieren Piper battled through the pouring rain in the annual Trekfest challenge in the Peak District on September 3-4.

They were fundraising for The Children’s Adventure Farm Trust that provides desperately-needed holidays for terminally ill, disabled and disadvantaged children from across north-west England.

Despite battling injury, Kevin (back) and Ian (ankle) completed 50km and 75km respectively. Kieren and Fraser both notched up 86.4km in just under 22 hours.

The through-the-night trek included scaling two peaks of 2,000ft. Earlier this year, Ian, Kevin and Fraser took part in the National Three Peaks Challenge to fundraise for the Adventure Farm Trust.

Between the two events this year, they have raised £1,400.

Kieren said: “The trek was very demanding and challenging. We had 18 hours of rain, but I’m up for doing it again next year!”

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