Olympic gold medalists such as John Naber, Peter Rocca, John Hencken, and Shirley Babashoff earned a lot of applause, along with the women's team, which had beaten the fiercely powerful East German team in the 4 x 100m freestyle relay final. Rebecca Adlington made headlines with her double-gold win at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, in which she aced both the 400m and 800m freestyle events. Rebecca Adlington. She was also a presenter at London's Olympics Handover Party in, This page was last edited on 29 April 2023, at 17:45. She moved to Port of Plymouth Swimming Association when she was eight and was coached for the first year first by Ray Bickley then by her father Terry Davies who became a coach. Simone Manuel Becomes First Black Woman To Win Olympic Swimming Gold Coopers nephew Bob Beausire once recounted what his auntie, who was known to her loved ones as Chattie, did the first time she won. The 1980 Summer Olympics . In the excitement of the victory, the British team manager rushed to congratulate her and only narrowly avoided being impaled on her sword. Current program 50 metre freestyle. She was the only non-American winner of a womens swimming title at that Games - Mortons win was so unexpected that the British national anthem wasnt ready to be played and a correctly-sized flag couldnt be found for the victory ceremony. By the time she finally retired for good in 1994, she had been a British champion on 22 occasions and had broken two hundred British swimming records and 5 World Masters records (eligible to those over 30). The Belle White Trophy is still awarded to the top female team at the English Age Group Championships. But Adlingtons double gold in Beijing took some beating in a sport where Britains women had conspicuously struggled for decades. Following in Rands footsteps, Peters redefined womens multi-eventing and delivered the performance of her life on the biggest possible stage at Munich 1972. Sharron Davies is the only Individual Medley medallist, taking the silver in 1980 in the 400m in Moscow, while the last British finalist in the 200m Individual Medley was Shelagh Ratcliffe in 1968. She then became the first British woman to win two swimming medals when she won gold as part of the 4 x 100 metres freestyle relay team a couple of days later. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Olympic_swimmers_of_Great_Britain&oldid=951855841, Summer Olympics competitors for Great Britain, Template Category TOC via CatAutoTOC on category with 301600 pages, CatAutoTOC generates standard Category TOC, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 19 April 2020, at 07:48. The only male Individual Medley swimmer to win a medal is Neil Cochran with a bronze in the 200m event in 1984. @chazworther nails the first 360 backflip - a trick never landed before in a women's competition - to claim gold. Duncan Cleworth. Mortons Olympic gold medal was a guest star on Antiques Roadshow in 2020 when granddaughter Julia took it on the show for inspection. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Swimmers_at_the_1980_Summer_Olympics&oldid=951872990, Template Category TOC via CatAutoTOC on category with 301600 pages, CatAutoTOC generates standard Category TOC, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 19 April 2020, at 09:39. Outdoor Swimming Nationals and Olympic Trials in 1980, the scoreboard displaying his results flashed with 11 lines of times rather than the usual eight. Birthdate: February 17, 1989. Davies has attended 12 consecutive Olympic Games, competing in three games[2] and then working in the media for the BBC Sport. Great British female Olympians down the decades | Team GB Team GB fielded more female athletes than male for the first time and they delivered countless memorable moments in Japan. Sharron Elizabeth Davies, MBE (born 1 November 1962) is an English former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics and European championships and competed for England in the Commonwealth Games.Davies has attended 12 consecutive Olympic Games, competing in three games and then working in the media for the BBC Sport.. She competed in three Olympic Games over three . In two Olympics, she competed in 11 events and won 11 medals, three gold. There was a boycott of the opening ceremony with Britain being represented solely by the General Secretary of the British Olympic Association, Dick Palmer, carrying the Olympic flag, and no athletes being present. [26], Davies's third marriage was to British Airways pilot Tony Kingston. The sprint hurdler took up athletics after contracting pleurisy and pneumonia and was advised to try the sport to regain her strength. 50 years after first competing in the Olympic fencing programme, Sheen bagged Team GB their first gold. After retiring at 23, she has worked for BBC as a sports pundit and participated in shows such as I'm a CelebrityGet Me Out of Here! This time it was the turn of Eve Muirhead, Vicky Wright, Jennifer Dodds and Hailey Duff who beat Japan in the final to claim Britains first womens curling gold since 2002. Times, 24 May 1980, p. 17", "Hennessy, John. Famous British Swimmers - The Famous People Richard Charlesworth (swimmer) Elizabeth Church. The Beijing Olympics also saw the inaugural 10km Marathon Swimming event which saw Keri-anne Payne and Cassandra Patten win two of the three medals on offer. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. This would continue as the Olympic format up to the 1996 Olympic Games. Morton was never earmarked as the first British woman to win an individual Olympic swimming title. The Evolution of Women's Olympic Swimsuits | Vanity Fair This is a list of the British champions in the events held at these annual championships. Category:Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia "[35], In 2023, Davies criticised sportswear brand Nike for using Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender woman, to model their products in an advertisement and called for a boycott.[36]. Petra Schneider, winner of the 400-metre individual medley. He was added in 2021 to the Coaches Association Hall of Fame. In reaching the final of the 100m Backstroke in Beijing 2008 Gemma Spofforth became Britains first finalist in the event since 1984. With your permission, analytics and functional cookies may be set by us or by athirdparty providerto further improve the user experience and enhance our website. In the third appearance by Great Britain in modern Olympic archery, two men and two women represented the country. Sharron Elizabeth Davies, MBE (born 1 November 1962) is an English former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics and European championships[1] and competed for England in the Commonwealth Games.
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