The SOGB World Winter Games Team in 2009 was as follows:

 
George Brunt - West Midlands
George Brunt is 24 years old and lives with his parents near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. He has been skiing with the West Midlands Group since 2002 and has taken part in two National Championships. George competes at the Intermediate level, and he has won multiple medals at local, regional and national competitions.
Two years ago George and his family were asked if he might consider modelling for Charles Walker Hazzard, a local artist, who was looking to produce a series of sculptures depicting a young man with Down’s syndrome. George has been spending every Saturday since then at the artist’s studio. Hazzard’s completed works, Received Offspring, will be on display in October at the Art Workers Guild in London.
 
Beth Wragg - West Midlands
Beth is 31 years old and lives in the West Midlands. Her mother, Candy Wragg, headed the delegation that travelled to Idaho.
Beth began skiing at the age of three and started to train with the SOGB West Midlands Ski Group in 2000. Beth has competed in local, regional and national competitions, and she returned from the 2008 SOGB National Championship with three Gold medals in the Advanced Female Division.
Beth has been lucky enough to compete at the Special Olympics British Columbia Games in Kimberley, Canada. She visits Canada annually for a family ski holiday where she meets up with Special Olympics friends from all over the world.  Beth is very excited about being selected for the SOGB Team and is training hard.  Her local gym, First Generation, has given her free membership for the year in order to help her prepare for the 2009 Games.
Beth loves football as well as skiing and is an Aston Villa season ticket holder.  She is hoping to meet Special Olympics Ambassador David James as he used to play for Aston Villa.
 
Craig Hannah - West Midlands
Craig Hannah is 32 years of age and lives in Halesowen, West Midlands with his parents Phil and Ellie Hannah.
Craig leads a very active life through his participation in the Special Olympics Great Britain.  He trains weekly in athletics, football, and swimming and fortnightly in skiing.  While Craig will confess to not being the best athlete in the world he enjoys 'taking part' and rarely misses a competition. Craig has relatives in Australia and has visited them three times.  During one of his visits to Sydney, he carried out a tandem parachute jump from 13,000 feet, which he said he thoroughly enjoyed.
 
 
Claire Jeffray - Lothian
Claire is 31 years old and lives in Gifford, Scotland. Lothian Disability Sport chose her as their Senior Sports Person of the Year.
Before she began skiing, Claire swam competitively for Special Olympics Great Britain.  She participated in 4 consecutive SOGB Nationals, where she won a total of 2 Gold, 11 Silver, and 2 Bronze medals.   In 1995, she was selected to represent Great Britain in the Special Olympics World Summer Games in Connecticut, USA where she won a Bronze medal.
In March 2002, she received the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award, which was presented to her at Holyrood Palace by the Duke of Edinburgh himself.  As a result, she was invited to the Queen's Garden Party, also at Holyrood Palace.  As the Queen entered the gardens, the Lord Lieutenant of East Lothian brought Claire out from the crowd and took her into the roped off walkway to meet the Queen!
Claire took up race skiing following her retirement from competitive swimming. She competed at the SOGB National Championships in Pila, Italy this past January, and she came away with 3 Silver medals in the Ladies Advanced Division.
 
William Cottrell - South East
William Cottrell is 21 and lives in London with his family.  He has been skiing at the Bromley Ski Centre for about four years.  At the 2008 SOGB National Championships, William won Gold in the Giant Slalom and finished fourth in the Super Giant Slalom.
He spends his free time supporting Charlton Athletic Football Club and Blackheath Rugby.  William’s father used to play for Blackheath and his brother and uncles still do.  He loves to cheer on his relatives at the games.   
 
Hannah Dempsey - South East
Hannah is 20 years old and lives in Bromley, Kent.  She leads a very busy and active life through her participation in both skiing and dance.  She competed as a swimmer in the 2006 SOGB National Games in Glasgow, where she won both Silver and Bronze medals. Hannah also participated in the 2008 SOGB National Championships in Pila, Italy where she skied her way to Silver and Bronze.
Along with skiing and swimming, Hannah is a gifted dancer.  She recently joined Anjali, a professional contemporary dance company based in Banbury, Oxfordshire. This company is one of the first in the world to be made up completely of people with learning disabilities. It produces and tours performances and undertakes educational and outreach work.
Hannah had the opportunity of starring in the opening performance at a major dance festival in Stuttgart, Germany this May. She is constantly working to bring dance and movement to younger people.  
 
Greg Friend - South East
When Greg Friend was born on 12 May 1982, doctors were worried about the severity of his learning disabilities, but through years of intense therapy he is now able to speak clearly and with reasonable fluency. 
He first started skiing with ROYAD (Reach Out Youth and Adult Disabilities), a local group set up to provide sporting opportunities and a social life to those with learning disabilities. In the summer of 2007, Greg began participating in the Special Olympics Great Britain programme. He excelled at the SOGB National Championships in Pila, Italy this year winning two Gold medals and one Bronze.
Greg has been assisted by the generous support of the Metropolitan Police Sports Club who will be providing him with a year of training at their gym in Imber Court.
 
Michael Charles - Wales
Michael Charles is 24 and lives with his parents in Llanelli, Wales.  He first started skiing at the age of 10 and joined the Special Olympics programme when the Welsh team was first formed in 1997.  Since then, he has earned medals at numerous regional and national SOGB events.  The slopes of Austria, Italy, and France are no challenge to him as he has skied there numerous times. Michael volunteers every Friday at the local RSPCA Llys Nini Animal Centre.
 
Hannah Gleeson - Wales
Hannah Gleeson is 19 years old and lives in Nantycaws, Carmarthenshire. She attends Ysgol Heol Goffa in Llanelli along with team-mate Amy Raddon.  Hannah did not begin skiing until 2006, but she has made fantastic progress in that short time.
She discovered skiing through school trips to the local dry ski slope, but she has since had the opportunity to try out the slopes in Austria. Hannah has competed in various SOGB competitions over the last few years, including the 2008 SOGB National Championships in Pila, Italy.  At those games, she was awarded Silver in both the Novice Slalom and the Novice Super Giant Slalom and Gold in the Novice Giant Slalom.
 
Amy Raddon - Wales
Amy Raddon is 17 years old and lives in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire. She attends Ysgol Heol Goffa in Llanelli with team-mate Hannah Gleeson, and she participates in skiing each week as part of her curriculum. Amy picked up the sport in 2003 and has worked hard to develop her skills both on the local dry ski slope and on school trips to Austria.
Amy has competed in numerous local and national SOGB competitions. She won Silver in the Novice Giant Slalom and Gold in both the Novice Slalom and the Novice Super Giant Slalom at the National Championships in Pila, Italy.