The exhibition features awards earned by sportspeople at national level who live in the Crediton area.
Among the sports represented are rugby, swimming, bowls, cricket, badminton, taekwon-do, football, motor racing, and pentathlon. It is a fascinating exhibition, just snippets about each person who have all achieved so much that they deserved more space, that is simply is not available at present.
For instance, Sophie Skinner has represented Great Britain since 2007 in the pentathlon and several times captained the GB team. Another young person is Rowan Crossman, now aged 20, who represented England in the Four Nations’ tournament this year and was a runner up in the men’s singles and the mixed doubles in badminton, gaining medals in previous years as well. Or Becky Tancock who, before she married and Becky Brookes, represented this country in taekwon-do from at least 2000. Then there are swimmers Darren Beer and Robert Brimacombe, the first fireproof suit in motor racing on view from Fred Saunders who was known as “Fearless Fred” and John Symes who, in 1900, was a member of the England cricket team playing at the Paris Olympics. That was the only time cricket has been part of the Olympics. The only game was between England and France, England winning by 158 runs.