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THE ROAD TO ATHENSBRITISH PERFORMANCES SINCE THE LAST OLYMPICSEUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS VALENCIA 20002 Gold, 7 Silver, 10 Bronze, No.1 Ranked TeamWORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS FUKUOKA 20011 Gold, 2 Silver, 4 Bronze, 14 British RecordsEUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS ANTWERP 20012 Gold, 6 Silver, 5 Bronze, 9 British RecordsWORLD SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS MOSCOW 20021 Gold, 2 Silver, 3 BronzeCOMMONWEALTH GAMES MANCHESTER 200211 Gold, 10 Silver, 16 bronze, 1 World Record, 2 European Records, 5 Commonwealth Records,12 Commonwealth Games Records, 12 British Records, 12 English records, 6 Scottish Records, 10 Welsh Records(Including three consecutive 1-2-3 podium finishes)WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES BEIJING 20011 Gold, 2 BronzeEUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS RIESA 20023 Gold, 4 Silver, 1 bronze, 2 British RecordsWORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TRIALS SHEFFIELD 20034 Commonwealth Records, 8 British RecordsEUROPEAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS GLASGOW 20036 Gold, 6 SILVER, 8 Bronze, 2 British Senior Records, 6 British Junior Records, 7 Championship Records(20 MEDALS – TOP NATION ON TOTAL MEDALS WON)EUROPEAN YOUTH OLYMPIC FESTIVAL PARIS 20034 Gold, 5 Silver, 8 Bronze, 4 British Junior Records, 1 Championship RecordWORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS BARCELONA 20032 Gold, 3 Silver, 3 Bronze 6 in Olympic Events, 2 Non-Olympic Events, 5 Commonwealth Records, 6 British Records,1 Championship Record, 1st Male Gold in 28 years, 1st Female Gold EverWORLD STUDENT GAMES DAGEU 20036 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze, 1 British record, 3 Champs Records (Top Swimming Nation)BRITISH SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS STOCKPORT 20031 Commonwealth Record, 13 British Senior Records, 9 British Junior Records(Highest Number of Records for GB In A Single Championship)EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS DUBLIN 20037 Gold, 6 Silver, 1 Bronze, 1 European Record, 2 Commonwealth Records, 2 Champs Records, 8 British Records(Highest Number of British Gold Medals Ever)BRITISH LONG COURSE CHAMPIONSHIPS SHEFFIELD 20042 Commonwealth Records, 19 British Senior Records8
BRITISH SWIMMING - AN OLYMPIC HISTORYCOMPILED BY STUART FARMER MEDIA SERVICES LTDSwimming has been included as an event in every one of the 26 modern Olympiads beginning with the Athens eventin 1896, which was swum on open water in the Bay of Zea, with Women’s distances being included for the first timein Stockholm in 1912.Great Britain first entered a team at the 1900 games in Paris and have only missed competing in the swimming eventsonce since – in St Louis in 1904, when uniquely for the Olympics the events were all swum in a 110 yard pool.The Men’s 100m Freestyle and 400m Freestyle, first swam at the 1896 games, are the oldest events still in theOlympic programme and have been included every year except 1900 in Paris. The Men’s 1500m Freestyle was firstincluded in 1906.The swimming programme settled into a uniform schedule between 1908 and 1952 where in each instance the Menonly swam the 100m, 400m and 1500m Freestyle, the 100m Backstroke, the 200m Breaststroke and the 800m Freestylerelay, with just a 400m Breaststroke event added in 1912 and 1920.Butterfly was first seen at the 1956 games in Melbourne where the men swam the 200m version and the Women swamover 100m. A Medley Relay was added for Rome in 1960, with Tokyo in 1964 seeing the first Individual Medley as wellas a shorter Freestyle Relay. It wasn’t until the Mexico games in 1968 that we saw the first full programme much like itis today, with the only new events introduced since then being the 50m Freestyle for men in Seoul 1988 and for Womenin Atlanta 1996.The Women’s programme has followed a similar route with just two gold medals up for grabs in 1912 and 1920 over100m Freestyle and the 400m Freestyle Relay. Between 1924 and 1952 the ladies only swam the same five events eachtime: 100m and 400m Freestyle, the 100m Backstroke, 200m Breaststroke and the 400m Freestyle Relay.The London games in 1948 saw the first eight lane 50m x 20m pool used at Wembley’s Empire Pool. Elsewhere some ofthe more obscure events from the turn of the century – the 200m obstacle race (where swimmers had to clamber overand under a row of boats), 100m Freestyle for Sailors (which was limited to members of the Greek navy), Underwater(where competitors got points for each metre swum and each second submerged) and the intriguingly titled “Plungefor distance” – are now consigned to history!TEAM GB PERFORMANCEThe following table illustrates the overall performance of the Great Britain swimming team at each Olympic games.It lists the total number of British swimming entries and how they all did in terms of making semi-finals and finalsat each Games. The COMP column denotes the size of the British Team in terms of competitors. Each finalist is thenfurther analysed to show his or her finishing position in the Final with G (gold), S (silver) and B (bronze) denoting thecolour of any medal won. All relay events are listed as one entry per team.As you can see the team has won a total of 62 medals (14 Gold, 22 Silver and 26 Bronze, counting any relay medalsas 1 and not 4) with just under 8% of the total British entries over the years going on to win a medal of some sort.GB has had a further thirty 4th place finishers whilst a total of 215 swimmers have made Olympic Finals (27% of totalentries), and 501 have swum in semi-finals.9
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Page 15 and 16: TEAM GB SWIMMING STAFFNational Perf
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Page 19 and 20: Chris Cook Age 25Todd Cooper Age 21
Page 21 and 22: Ian Edmond Age 26Adam Faulkner Age
Page 23 and 24: James Goddard 21James Hickman 28Dat
Page 25 and 26: Darren Mew 24David O’Brien 21Date
Page 27 and 28: Graeme Smith Age 28Gregor Tait Age
Page 29 and 30: SWIMMER PROFILES - WOMENKirsty Balf
Page 31 and 32: Kathryn Evans Age 23Joanne Jackson
Page 33 and 34: Karen Legg Age 25Melanie Marshall A
Page 35 and 36: Sarah Price Age 25Katy Sexton Age 2
Page 37 and 38: TEAM GB STAFF PROFILESBill Sweetenh
Page 39 and 40: Ian TurnerDavid LylesPosition: Head
Page 41 and 42: NEWCOMER’S GUIDE TO SWIMMINGSwimm
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PAST BRITISH OLYMPIC DIVING MEDALLI
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FINA DIVING GRAND PRIX RANKINGS 200
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