Figure skater Colledge is the youngest athlete to have ever represented Team GB. "[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]. James Goddard and Liam Tancock both reached the 200m Individual Medley final in 2008. Barbara Krause, winner of the 100-metre freestyle, 200-metre freestyle, and 4100-metre freestyle relay. Davies has attended 12 consecutive Olympic Games, competing in three games[2] and then working in the media for the BBC Sport. Twelve cyclists represented Great Britain in 1980. That amazing Games earned her the Sports Personality of the Year award, the second woman to win it after Anita Lonsbrough did so in 1962. * Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals. Sheila Clayton. "She biked home from Wimbledon and found her brother at home pruning the roses. 1. The first black swimmer to win an Olympic swimming gold was Anthony Nesty, who competed for the nation of Suriname in the 1980s. 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She remains the only British female athlete to have won Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth titles in the same event, and the only woman to have done so over 400m. 4. Sharron Davies hopeful of getting retrospective Olympic gold medal No Backstroker has won a medal since Natalie Steward took silver in the 100m in 1960. Category:Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia 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. Welcome to the home of our senior British athletes. The original golden girl of British athletics, Mary Rand delivered one of the great performances from a British female athlete at Tokyo 1964. The last Briton to reach the 400m Individual Medley final isMax Litchfield in 2016. Declared completely deaf at the age of 26, Coopers achievements on the tennis court still ring out more than a century later. We are the home of British Swimming. 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. There has been considerable interest in the age and physical characteristics of swimmers competing at the Olympic Games or World Championships over many decades (see Table 1).Early studies examining only amateur athletes include those by Cureton, 7 de Garay et al., 8 and Novak et al. Outdoor Swimming Nationals and Olympic Trials in 1980, the scoreboard displaying his results flashed with 11 lines of times rather than the usual eight. The 29 Most Decorated Female U.S. Olympians Of All Time - Team USA 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. It has been a big hurdle getting FINA to be the first governing body to do it, but the battle's not over yet. 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.
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