Craig Pickering is a sprinter and bobsleigher who competed for Team GB at Beijing 2008 but was forced to withdraw from the Winter Olympics in Sochi due to an injury.

In 2007 he won a European Indoor Championship silver medal in the 60m and the same year was part of the World Championship team that won 4x100m bronze. 

He missed out London 2012 with a back injury and that winter decided to turn his attentions to bobsleigh.