TOM Daley, Usain Bolt and Andy Murray are just some of the Olympic hopefuls limbering up in a Swindon office thanks to nimble-fingered knitters.

Carol Hearne and Liz Peacock, who work at catalogue company Scotts & Co, have knitted 33 athletes ahead of the Olympics at the end of July.

Carol, whose son Ben Fox is an Olympic torchbearer, is hoping their creations will raise funds for his wheelchair basketball team’s world record attempt in August.

“We started off with a couple of figures and then we started thinking ‘oh we haven’t done boxing’ and ‘we haven’t done judo’,” said Carol, of Westlea.

“They are all across the office. The company is really getting behind it.”

The figures, which also include Tyson Gay, Chris Hoy, Jessica Ennis and Mo Farah, will be auctioned on eBay in August.

“The more intricate ones with a lot of detail can take a while. It can take up to a week doing a bit each night but generally you can do one in a couple of nights,” said Carol. “I was knitting the boxer for the three-and-a-half hour journey I was travelling to Sheffield at the weekend and then back again.”

There is a track set up in the office, an area for gymnastics, a ping pong table, a hockey and football pitch and a discus ring. There is also a figure of 16-year-old Ben, who will be carrying the torch through Royal Wootton Bassett next week.

“A swimming pool is on the way which Tom Daley will stand with,” she said.

On August 11 and 12 the South West Scorpion Wheelchair Basketball Club, which Ben is joint-captain of, will be attempting to beat the Guinness World Record for the longest ever wheelchair basketball match.

The record stands at just over 26 hours and the team will aim to play for 30 hours non-stop.

The knitters are hoping the funds they raise through eBay will help pay for new sports wheelchairs, basketballs, and more sessions for young people across the town. For information visit www.southwestwbc.com.