The 2002 Salt Lake Games produced Great Britain's best medal haul since the War, with Scottish athletes bringing home a gold and bronze.

But Rhona Martin's curling team and skier Alain Baxter are just the latest in a long line of Scottish stars who have set their hearts on Olympic glory.

Here, PA Sport look at some of Scotland's Olympic heroes.

ALAIN BAXTER

Baxter won Britain's first-ever Olympic medal on snow with a stunning bronze in the men's slalom at Deer Valley. The 28-year-old from Aviemore - nicknamed 'The Highlander' and sporting a controversial crop of bright blue hair - was eighth after his first run. But amazingly Baxter placed in the silver medal position at the end of his second effort and the next six racers all experienced difficulties on the slippery bottom half of the course. However, Frenchman Jean-Pierre Vidal, the first-run leader, came down last and got the gold, nudging Baxter down into bronze.

RHONA MARTIN & THE TEAM GB CURLING TEAM

Just three days after claiming "We're out, we're dead", skip Rhona Martin led her curlers to glory on the Ogden Ice Sheet to win Britain's first Winter Olympics gold for 18 years with a last-gasp victory over Switzerland. Ironically it had been the Swiss who handed Britain a medal chance in the play-offs by beating Germany in the final game of the round-robin. Martin's team seized their chance to stun red-hot favourites Canada in the semi-finals. Then, with the very last stone of the final, Irvine housewife Martin kept her nerve to land it right in the centre of the house and spark an invasion of the ice by the jubilant British team - Debbie Knox, Janice Rankin, Fiona MacDonald and alternate Maggie Morton.

DAVID WILKIE

Wilkie returned to the Olympic podium in style after winning the silver medal in the 200 metres breaststroke at Munich in 1972. The Scottish-born swimmer was back in the pool in Montreal four years later to win the same event and take second place in the 100m breaststroke.

ALLAN WELLS

Britain's top sprinter of the late 1970s and early 80s lunged across the line to take 100m gold in Moscow in 1980. The Scot was delighted with the victory, despite some decrying his achievement after the USA team and others had withdrawn to protest at the occupation of Afghanistan by the Russian army.

STEPHANIE COOK

Junior doctor Cook put her medical career to one side for a year when she captured gold in the modern pentathlon in Sydney. But the chances of success for the then 28-year-old had looked slim with Cook slipping to 14th after the shooting and fencing disciplines. However, a storming display in the 3000m saw her take the top prize.

SHIRLEY ROBERTSON

Became the first ever Briton to win an individual sailing gold at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Robertson started the final day of the Europe Class event just four points ahead of 1996 silver medallist Margriet Matthysse, but held on to clinch gold.

ERIC LIDDELL

Immortalised in the Oscar-winning film 'Chariots of Fire', Liddell was the devoutly religious man who took gold and bronze in the 1924 Olympics. Liddell won the gold medal in the 400m and clinched a bronze for the 200m - however, it was in the 100m where he was expected to have beaten the best the world had to offer. But on discovering the qualifying heats were to be run on a Sunday, a day which he held sacred, he withdrew from the event altogether.

WYNDAM HALSWELLE

The earliest great Scottish Olympian made a sweep of all three medal types. The runner took silver in the 400m in Athens, Greece in 1904 before capturing the bronze medal in the 800m. Four years later, Halswelle went one better when he took the gold medal for 400m in London.