SportMoray award is icing on cake
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"ICING on the cake" was how a delighted Peter Robertson summed up his Moray Sports Person of the Year Award.
The 71-year-old master cyclist punched the air as he accepted the sportMoray award this week.
The Forres competitor made a return to the track three years ago when he retired.
Hard work, determination and commitment paid off for the pensioner with great success in the last year.
He set his best times at distances of 10 and 25 miles, however, it was in the velodrome where he really excelled.
At the World Track Masters Championships in Manchester, he won a silver medal in the pursuit event.
That followed two bronze medals in sprint time trial and pursuit at the British Masters Track Championships in Newport.
The grandfather’s remarkable success comes 50 years after he set the Scottish 25-mile time trial record.
The Forres Cycling Club president is living proof you are never too old to compete at the highest level.
At the sportMoray recognition awards in Elgin Town Hall he scooped the top honour, sponsored by Campbell and McConnachie.
"I am chuffed to bits and this is a fantastic finish to the year," he said.
"I was sixteen and a half stone when I retired at 68," said the former building industry site agent.
"I did a bit of leisure cycling, but there is not much you can do when you are that heavy."
Peter was encouraged to start training again by fellow Forres member and coach Peter Ettles and now he is down to 12 stone 4lb, but aims to lose another stone to reach his "true fighting weight".
"I never thought in my wildest dreams I would reach this level. I am training harder than I have ever trained in my life and I am faster."
Peter also paid a special thank you to his wife, Mary, for being his rock.
For the full awards list and more pictures from the event get 'The Northern Scot'.
