Canoeing star Campbell Walsh, competed in the sport of canoe slalom for 23 years and for 19 of those years was a member of a GB team. Between 1999 and 2012 he achieved 20 top 5 places and 11 medals in his 67 major senior international competitions, including being overall World Cup Champion in 2004 and European Champion in 2008. He became an Olympian in 2004 winning the silver medal at the Athens Olympics. Campbell’s decision to study his degree at the University of Nottingham was influenced by the proximity to the National Water Sports Centre, which was the training base for GB Canoeing. His choice of degree was also influenced by canoeing – he chose Mathematical Physics, primarily because he enjoyed both maths and physics at school, but secondly because there was no laboratory work involved, therefore freeing up more flexible time for training sessions during the week. Campbell represented Great Britain at both the Athens and Beijing Olympics, winning Great Britain’s third ever medal in canoe slalom, with a silver in Athens. Despite becoming an Olympic medalist, Campbell’s achievement of consistently medaling at major championships between 2004 and 2009 is viewed as a greater achievement by himself. To regularly hit the podium in canoe slalom is quite rare. With so many different courses, gate positions and constantly fluctuating wave features, the sport is inherently open to many variables, and therefore highlights the extent to which Campbell was dominating the world stage at the time. Campbell officially retired in 2012 having built the foundations of Team GB success at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. Campbell remains closely tied to the sport now as a coach at the highest level. It is testimony to Campbell that he continues to inspire the next generation of athletes as British Canoeing continues to grow from strength to strength. To find out more about our Hall of Fame, please visit https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sport/our-heritage/hall-of-fame.aspx