Davies then married gym manager John Crisp in West Sussex in 1987. Paul Marshall was the British Olympic team's first black swimmer in 1980, and Dearing says it is a shame it has taken four decades for black women to be represented. Joyce Cooper holds the record for the most Olympic swimming medals by a British woman with four: silver in the 400m Freestyle Relay in 1928, and three bronzes in the 100m Freestyle and 100m Backstroke also in 1928, plus the 400m Freestyle Relay four years later. He was added in 2021 to the Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Note: swimmers who swam only in preliminary rounds also received medals. Gardner won silver in the 80 metres hurdles at her home Games, edged out by Blankers-Koen with both athletes initially credited with a joint world record of 11.2 seconds. Gunnell scorched to a convincing Olympic victory at Barcelona 1992 and broke the world record a year later. Furthermore, the Olympic flag was raised for the British medal winners in place of the Union Flag, and the Olympic anthem was played instead of God Save the Queen for the five gold medalists.[2][3]. Morton was never earmarked as the first British woman to win an individual Olympic swimming title. The 1980 Summer Olympics . Times, 17 July 1989, p. 31", "Olympian Sharron Davies launches new online training class", "Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies separates from her third husband", "Make Christmas Villages easily with My Village", "I'm supporting @KemiBadenoch a fresh, brave & intelligent woman who's prepared to tackle issues head on so many have ignored for too long, total transparency & integrity. Davies gave birth to her third child on 30 January 2007. Instead, the top 8 finishers from the heats qualified directly for the final, or final A as it was called. Sun Sign: Aquarius. Flying Dutchwoman Fanny Blankers-Koen was the undisputed star of Londons second staging of the Games in 1948, but Gardner was only a split second behind her. @BBCSport pic.twitter.com/j9osc7bMFe. "Swimming." Some are strictlynecessary for this website to function and cannot be switched off. Right IconThis ranking is based on an algorithm that combines various factors, including the votes of our users and search trends on the internet. Overview: Adrian David Moorhouse MBE (born 24 May 1964) is an English former competitive swimmer who dominated British swimming in the late 1980s. White won Britains first-ever Olympic diving medal with bronze in the platform event at Stockholm 1912. The sprint hurdler took up athletics after contracting pleurisy and pneumonia and was advised to try the sport to regain her strength. No Backstroker has won a medal since Natalie Steward took silver in the 100m in 1960. 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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). Rio saw the Swimming Team came home with one gold and five silver medals. 4. (British Former Competitive Swimmer) 23. Sun Sign: Aquarius. The only male Individual Medley swimmer to win a medal is Neil Cochran with a bronze in the 200m event in 1984. Find out more about Swimming at the Olympics and Great Britain's successes at the Games. Barbara Krause, winner of the 100-metre freestyle, 200-metre freestyle, and 4100-metre freestyle relay. The next year she won two bronze medals in the 1977 European Championships. British athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, alongside Australia, France, Greece, and Switzerland. MEN'S OLYMPIC FACTS Great Britain have won ten Olympic gold medals in the men's event: John Jarvis in both the 100m Freestyle and 400m Freestyle in 1900, Henry Taylor in both the 400m and . Duncan Cleworth. In events up to 400m, those that finished 9th to 16th in the heats would swim in Final B for the 9th place after the swimmers from Final A swam. The last male gold medallist was Adam Peaty who claimed the 100m Breaststroke crown at Rio 2016. There was a total of 333 participants from 41 countries competing.[1]. 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. Find out more about the Marathon Swimming and the history of the discipline. In reaching the final of the 100m Backstroke in Beijing 2008 Gemma Spofforth became Britains first finalist in the event since 1984. Times, 29 May 1978, p. 12", "Hennessy, John. A Look At How Olympic Swimsuits Have Changed Over The Past 125 Years From knee-length swim costumes to daring speedos, Olympic swimsuits have evolved quite dramatically by Morgan Brinlee Aug.. This is a list of the British champions in the events held at these annual championships. The following year, at age 15, she won gold medals at the Commonwealth Games in the 200 and 400-metre individual medleys and also a silver and a bronze medal. Welcome to the home of our senior British athletes. William Henry is the oldest GB swimming medallist with bronze in the relay in 1906 aged 47 while Sarah Hardcastle is the youngest at age 15 winning silver in 1984. Swimming as usual was one of the three aquatics disciplines at the 1980 Summer Olympicsthe other two being Water Polo and Diving.It was held in the Swimming Pool of the Olimpiysky Sports Complex between July 20 and July 27. Stanley Clarke (swimmer) Andrew Clayton. The then-28-year-old beat Romanias Olga Orban to take victory in the foil. In the third appearance by Great Britain in modern Olympic archery, two men and two women represented the country. For venues and dates see British Swimming Championships. Because the number of participants was reduced by the boycott, FINA broke format by doing away with the semifinals. 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The last Freestyle medallist was David Davies in Athens 2004 who won a bronze medal in the 1500m. Sheen, a dental surgeon, settled in New York and set up an orthodontics practice alongside her husband. The last Briton to reach the 400m Individual Medley final isMax Litchfield in 2016. "Swimming at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Swimming_at_the_1980_Summer_Olympics&oldid=1117440353, This page was last edited on 21 October 2022, at 19:06. Great Britain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Team GB has had a plethora of great female athletes in recent years. Dorling & Kindersley's popular learn to swim in a weekend (which has been translated into multiple languages), This Morning - presenting a mums and babies learning to swim series on ITV, Guest dart player, throwing for charity, on British game show, Presenting and commentating on swimming coverage for the. Great Britain's most recent relay medals came at Rio 2016 in the 4x200m Freestyle and 4x100m Medley events. He won the 100 fly at the Seoul Olympics in 1988. Defined in the public eye by a fierce domestic rivalry with Fatima Whitbread, Sanderson would become the second track & field athlete from any nation to reach six Olympics. The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 513 total. Her feat of winning the 400m Freestyle and the 800m Freestyle gave her the honour of being the first British swimmer to have won two gold medals since 1908 and the first Olympic Champion since 1988. Having been devastated not to make the final at Moscow 1980, Sanderson became the first British female to win an Olympic title with gold in LA four years later. The womens pair gold famously broke the seal on the London 2012 medal rush and the duo returned to defend their title at Rio 2016. During a Sport Relief event in Devon, she said: "We're very optimistic and happy but we're cautious, too, because of what we have been through. . This list may not reflect recent changes. Davies was born in Plymouth, Devon, and grew up in Plymouth and Plymstock. 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. In two Olympics, she competed in 11 events and won 11 medals, three gold. 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. [1], In partial support of the American-led boycott, the UK government allowed its athletes to choose whether to compete. Formerly ranked . [citation needed]. The event remains 'Open' which has resulted in many swimmers of various nationalities claiming the title over the years. From one female athlete at Paris 1900 to more women than men for the first time at Tokyo 2020, the growth of Team GB has been powered by its female contingent. This information about British divers at the Olympic Games is based on the official olympic reports and the Olympian Database: Olympics She also competed in the international community spanning over 20 years. The first black swimmer to win an Olympic swimming gold was Anthony Nesty, who competed for the nation of Suriname in the 1980s. [3], She originally learnt to swim with Devonport Royal Swimming Association. Former World Champion Ben Proud added his name to the list thanks to posting a trials-winning time that would have earned him silver at the . [8], In the latest development in the long story of the East German state-run doping programme, The Times broke the news in 2021 that there is a possibility that the bronze and silver medals won may be upgraded to Gold. The Belle White Trophy is still awarded to the top female team at the English Age Group Championships. He won the 100 . 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[4][5] Her father was never selected as an international coach because he spoke out about East German cheating. 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. She won four gold medals at the 1988 and the 1992 Olympics and some of her world records stood for over 20 years. Davies has broken or re broken many British records whilst competing and winning[7][8] For medals table see right. Whites story is little known but her name lives on in the sport to this day. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Jennie Fletcher was the first British woman to win an Olympic swimming medal when she came third in the inaugural women's 100 metres freestyle at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. [35] In the same article, she stated: "This month we saw an athlete, Lia Thomas, who was an average club swimmer as a man claim an NCAA title as the US No 1 woman with 20 years of male development in the tank. 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. 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! Denise Lewis, Shirley Robertson, Victoria Pendleton and Christine Ohuruogu were among those to dazzle with gold at the Games. Rebecca Adlington. Great Britain has never won an Olympic medal in either the 100m or 200m Butterfly events. "[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]. In 2005, Davies supported the British Olympic bid by profile-raising and appearing as spokesperson on BBC's Question Time where she made a strong case for bringing the games to London for 2012. This would continue as the Olympic format up to the 1996 Olympic Games. 1994 a "British Girls of Sport" calendar (wearing sexy outfits to raise money for the Sports Aid Foundation). "She biked home from Wimbledon and found her brother at home pruning the roses. This is the complete list of women's Olympic medalists in swimming. In January 2022, she launched an online fitness site, Sharron Davies Training. [27][bettersourceneeded] They were married in 2002 in Gloucestershire. 4. Full list of gold, silver and bronze medallists as well as photos and videos of medal-winning moments. Outdoor Swimming Nationals and Olympic Trials in 1980, the scoreboard displaying his results flashed with 11 lines of times rather than the usual eight. Birthplace: Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. We are the home of British Swimming. 7. Born to a runner father and a swimmer mother, he was introduced to triathlon by Simon Hearnshaw, his . Team GB have won gold at the last four Olympic Winter Games and all of those have been won by female athletes. @chazworther nails the first 360 backflip - a trick never landed before in a women's competition - to claim gold. Hannah Mills also became the most decorated female sailor in Olympic history with 470 gold alongside Eilidh McIntyre. Official British Olympic Association Report of the 1980 Games, published 1981, ISSN 0143-4799; Boycott In 1976, at age 13, Davies was selected to represent Great Britain at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Mortons Olympic gold medal was a guest star on Antiques Roadshow in 2020 when granddaughter Julia took it on the show for inspection. 9,10 During the 1980's and 90's, Olympic athletes were more frequently supported by their governments to . 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! Times, 26 May 1980, p. 11", "Downes, Steven. Declared completely deaf at the age of 26, Coopers achievements on the tennis court still ring out more than a century later. [31] Other Olympic medal-winning sports people have spoken in opposition, including Madeline Groves. Great Britain have won ten Olympic gold medals in the mens event: John Jarvis in both the 100m Freestyle and 400m Freestyle in 1900, Henry Taylor in both the 400m and 1500m Freestyle in 1908, Frederick Holman in the 200m Breaststroke in 1908, 4x100m Freestyle Relay in 1908, David Wilkie in the 200m Breaststroke in 1976, Duncan Goodhew in the 100m Breaststroke in 1980, Adrian Moorhouse in the 100m Breaststroke in 1988 and Adam Peaty in the100m Breaststroke in 2016. Women's races are not there for mediocre males. [5], She learned to swim at the age of six and was training seriously two years later. It was held in the Swimming Pool of the Olimpiysky Sports Complex between July 20 and July 27. Here you are able to discover more about our elite swimmers - from their national and international achievements to where you will be able to see them in action next. Among them were BMX gold medals for Charlotte Worthington and Beth Shriever and a historic fifth Olympic gold for Laura Kenny in a majestic Madison with Katie Archibald. Games Gold Silver Bronze 1988 Seoul details: Kristin Otto East . The Great Britain Swimming Team has won a total of 71 medals at the Olympic Games made up of 16 Gold, 27 Silver and 28 Bronze medals. ERIC LIDDELL In 1924, devout Christian Liddell dropped his best event, the 100m, because . Rebecca Adlington. 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. This is the complete list of women's Olympic medalists in swimming. She was the youngest competitor from any nation at the 1932 Olympics in Lake Placid, competing in the singles event at the age of only 11. Vote for Your Favourite British Female Swimmers, Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Baroness Masham of Ilton, (English Swimmer and Member of the House of Lords, Lord Temporal), (British CompetitiveSwimmer and Olympic Gold Medallist). Right IconThis ranking is based on an algorithm that combines various factors, including the votes of our users and search trends on the internet. [25], In 1992, she met athlete Derek Redmond at the Barcelona Olympics. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. 10 Greatest Female Swimmers who have never won Olympic gold. Britain has had a finalist in the last two Olympics in the 200m Backstroke through Lizzie Simmonds (2008) and Katy Sexton (2004). Mark Blenkarne missed winning a medal in the men's competition by only three points, by far the most successful result for Great Britain since archery was returned to the Olympic schedule. When a. Giving birth at 44 doesn't worry me. [6], At 18, Davies called time on the first stage of her swimming career to build her television profile and a career in modelling. Petra Schneider, winner of the 400-metre individual medley. See also. [29], Davies is a supporter of the Conservative Party and endorsed Kemi Badenoch in the JulySeptember 2022 Conservative Party leadership election. This category includes swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. This page provides a list of the British divers who have participated in the Olympic Games . England) is a former England and Great Britain Olympic swimmer who had a successful International career spanning 10 years. 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 . Great Britain has won six gold medals in the womens program: the 4x100m Freestyle Relay team in 1912, Lucy Morton in the 200m Breaststroke in 1924, Judith Grinham in the 100m Backstroke in 1956, Anita Lonsborough in the 200m Breaststroke in 1960 and Rebecca Adlington in both the 400m Freestyle and 800m Freestyle in 2008. Having been devastated not to make the final at Moscow 1980, Sanderson became the first British female to win an Olympic title with gold in LA four years later. This page is not available in other languages. [32], She became involved in the question of trans women in sport, not because of trans women themselves but rather because at the 1980 Olympics she lost out on gold to Schneider who, along with other East German athletes, had been put on testosterone to enhance their performances through doping. Three male pentathletes represented Great Britain in 1980. Great Britain has not been on the relay podium since 1980 where the 4x100m Medley Relay team won silver. The performance of the Great Britain Swimming team at Rio 2016 is the most successful since 1908. [citation needed], She set a record by swimming for the British national team at the age of 11. June Croft swam in a British womens swimming record eight Olympic finals, three in 1980 in Moscow and five more 4 years later in Los Angeles. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. [34] In March, she wrote a column for The Times arguing that "trans women's" advantage is the result of going through male puberty, resulting in narrower angle between the hips and knees which testosterone reduction does not eliminate, and called for trans women to compete in an open category rather than being excluded from competition entirely. The success of British women at the Olympics in the late 20th century was all about track & field and Sanderson was the next to break new ground for Team GB. Born on 28th August 1971, Janet Beth Evans is a former American swimmer, world champion, and world record-holder in distance freestyle events. No Briton has reached a breaststroke final since 1984 and no Briton has won a medal in the 100m Breastroke. 1. Because the number of participants was reduced by the boycott, FINA broke format by doing away with . This list may not reflect recent changes. "Selectors juggle numbers for Bonn." The governing body of swimming in the UK, British Swimming (organisation), organises annual British Championships in swimming. Find out more information about how athletes are selected to compete in major swimming events in Great Britain. Hertha "Hedy" Bienenfeld Wertheimer of Austria at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam. She was joined on Team GB in 2012 and 2016 by so many incredible female contemporaries, including Jessica Ennis, Laura Kenny, Katherine Grainger, Charlotte Dujardin and many, many more. The event is usually held in March or April each year in a long course (50m) swimming pool, with the results usually acting as selection trials for upcoming international level competitions due to be held in the following summer season.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. In the excitement of the victory, the British team manager rushed to congratulate her and only narrowly avoided being impaled on her sword. We are the home of British Swimming. In partial support of the American-led boycott, the UK government allowed its athletes to choose whether to compete. Colledge, who served as an ambulance driver in World War II, went on to win Olympic silver at Garmisch-Partenkirchen four years later. Britain is still searching for its first Olympic medal in both the 50m Freestyle and 200m Freestyle events. 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. She broke the world record to win long jump gold, snatched silver in the pentathlon and bronze in the 4x100m relay, showing an incredible range of form and talent. Davies won silver for Great Britain in the 400m individual medley in Moscow . . 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. 8. Read our cookies policy. Janet Evans. Birthdate: February 17, 1989. It has been a big hurdle getting FINA to be the first governing body to do it, but the battle's not over yet. Charlotte Dujardin won dressage bronze to become the most decorated British female Olympian, as Team GB's swimmers secured gold to take Britain's medal tally to 16 on day five in Tokyo. 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