A TALENTED young athlete has overcome major health hurdles to win two gold medals and a bronze in his very own Olympic battle.

As millions tune into the Olympic Games in Beijing, 10-year-old Andrew Evans-Fisher of Upper Sapey, near Tenbury Wells, has showed he too has the winning pedigree and fighting spirit to earn his place on the podium.

He won two gold medals for the 50-metre sprint and the long jump and a bronze for table tennis at the British Transplant Games at the Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield over the weekend.

Andrew, a year five pupil at King’s Hawford School, near Worcester, has had kidney problems since he was very young and had to have a transplant two years ago.

His grandad John Yarwood, of Hartlebury, near Stourport-on-Severn, watched with his wife Doreen as Andrew performed at the stadium alongside 600 competitors and in front of more than 1,000 people.

Mr Yarwood said: “The whole atmosphere was fantastic. People who have never been there just can’t appreciate it. I’m very proud of him. He’s a nice boy who’s always cheerful and always has a smile on his face. It’s a big stadium but it didn’t seem to faze him at all.”

Andrew’s father Ian Evans-Fisher and wife Carol were also in the stands to watch their son, who won two gold medals and two silver medals at the same competition last year in Edinburgh.

Andrew not only overcame the initial transplant but one to enlarge his bladder in March.

That did not stop him training at King’s Hawford School and at the Ryland Youth Centre in Bromsgrove three times a week to make sure he was ready for the comeptition.

Some of the other athletes Andrew competed against were two years older than him.

He has now set his sights on next year’s games in Coventry.