Katherine Driscoll

Progress towards 2012 I'm feeling confident at the moment. I've just come back from two World Cups in Asia and posted well in both of them, winning three silver medals. As a British camp we are happy with where we are. Competition is tough, and we're all pretty much at the same sort of level, which is something we've never had before. We've always had two girls at the top and then a few below, but the five girls we have now are all pushing each other to raise our game. It could literally be any one of us that makes it to 2012, and we're all jumping well at the moment. You really can't afford to have a bad competition now, because you know that someone will be straight in there to take your place. I think we've got a really good shot at a medal in 2012, but first of all we've got to make the finals. There are 16 competitors and the top eight go through. Once you make the finals the competition goes back to a zero start, and the way that the international field is at the moment it is anyone's game once you're in there. There is more pressure with the Olympics being in London as everyone expects the British to do better, but I think it will help us too. Everyone will want us to do well, compared to being at an Olympics abroad where you feel disconnected from people back home. Biography Born 13 March 1986, Kent Club Apollo Trampoline Club, Washington, Sunderland Hobbies Spending time with friends and family, watching sport on TV – I love Formula One and my husband and I try and watch it on Sundays. We went down to Wimbledon this year as well – basically anything related to sport! Favourite film The Goonies Favourite book It would have to be a sports biography. Probably Cathy Freeman's – I love it Favourite bands Kings of Leon, The Kooks and Keane Training It's a busy schedule. I'm on the trampoline six days a week, for a minimum of three hours a day, and on Saturdays I do six hours. On the Monday, Wednesday and Thursday I travel over to Gateshead stadium to build on my strength and conditioning. I work with the English Institute of Sport while I'm there. Key statistics 2009 Gold medal Aalsmeer Flower Cup, Netherlands. Finishes in fifth place at the World Championships in the same year 2011 Three silver medals (one individual, two synchronised) at trampoline World Cup events in China and Japan 2011 Takes first place in the British Senior Trampoline Championships in Birmingham Current world top five 1 S Huang (Chn) 2 K Driscoll (GB) 3 K Cockburn (Can) 4 A Rente (Por) 5 G Goncharenko (Rus) Countdown to 2012 2 September 2011 World Cup series, Salzgitter, Germany 30 September 2011 World Cup series, Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic 7 October 2011 World Cup series, Odense, Denmark 17 November 2011 Trampoline World Championships, Birmingham, UK 10 January 2012 British Olympic qualifying (also doubles as Olympic test event), North Greenwich Arena, London 27 July 2012 London 2012 opening ceremony, Olympic Stadium, Stratford, London Venue The North Greenwich Arena will also host basketball and artistic gymnastics