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. Read our cookies policy. The 1980 Summer Olympics . Official Swimming results from the Moscow 1980 Olympics. No Backstroker has won a medal since Natalie Steward took silver in the 100m in 1960. 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. [citation needed], In the 1980 Olympics, Davies took the silver medal in the 400m individual medley behind East German Petra Schneider, who later admitted that the victory was drug enhanced. 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. Team GB have won gold at the last four Olympic Winter Games and all of those have been won by female athletes. 8. Instead, the top 8 finishers from the heats qualified directly for the final, or final A as it was called. Right IconThis ranking is based on an algorithm that combines various factors, including the votes of our users and search trends on the internet. "Swimming." Birthdate: February 17, 1989. This list may not reflect recent changes. Full list of gold, silver and bronze medallists as well as photos and videos of medal-winning moments. Swimming as usual was one of the three aquatics disciplines at the 1980 Summer Olympicsthe other two being Water Polo and Diving. [27][bettersourceneeded] They were married in 2002 in Gloucestershire. She attended Plymstock Comprehensive School and the private school Kelly College, which is now known as Mount Kelly, in Tavistock. [25], In 1992, she met athlete Derek Redmond at the Barcelona Olympics. Right IconThis ranking is based on an algorithm that combines various factors, including the votes of our users and search trends on the internet. This category includes swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. 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. @BBCSport pic.twitter.com/j9osc7bMFe. Formerly ranked . The gold medal made her the first British woman to win gold in an Olympic athletics discipline. Rebecca Adlington. White won Britains first-ever Olympic diving medal with bronze in the platform event at Stockholm 1912. 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. In January 2022, she launched an online fitness site, Sharron Davies Training. 1994 a "British Girls of Sport" calendar (wearing sexy outfits to raise money for the Sports Aid Foundation). Tony Duffy/Allsport Olympic Medals 5 7 9 Games Breakdown Athletics 4 2 4 Boxing 1 Judo 1 1 Rowing 1 2 Swimming 1 3 1 Get Inspired Latest News Latest News Shop Former swimmer Sharron Davies hopes she will be given the gold medal she feels is deserved from the 1980 Olympics. ERIC LIDDELL In 1924, devout Christian Liddell dropped his best event, the 100m, because . 333 swimmers from 41 nations competed.[1]. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. She holds the distinction of being the first woman ever to become an Olympic champion with singles gold at the 1900 Games in Paris and was the first woman to represent Team GB too. Welcome to the home of our senior British athletes. 26. 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. The event remains 'Open' which has resulted in many swimmers of various nationalities claiming the title over the years. Birthplace: Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. Britain is still searching for its first Olympic medal in both the 50m Freestyle and 200m Freestyle events. Davies is a current patron of the Disabled Sport England and SportsAid. Mortons Olympic gold medal was a guest star on Antiques Roadshow in 2020 when granddaughter Julia took it on the show for inspection. In reaching the final of the 100m Backstroke in Beijing 2008 Gemma Spofforth became Britains first finalist in the event since 1984. They also won all three medals in six different races. Team GB has had a plethora of great female athletes in recent years. (British Former Competitive Swimmer) 23. 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. This category has only the following subcategory. No Briton has reached a breaststroke final since 1984 and no Briton has won a medal in the 100m Breastroke. 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. [citation needed]. In partial support of the American-led boycott, the UK government allowed its athletes to choose whether to compete. 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. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. The governing body of swimming in the UK, British Swimming (organisation), organises annual British Championships in swimming. This page provides a list of the British divers who have participated in the Olympic Games . 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! He won the gold medal in the 100-metre breaststroke at . "Swimming." The Northern Irish star outlasted German favourites to break the pentathlon world record and win Britains first Olympic multi-event title. Great Britain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. On International Womens Day, here is a look at some great British women who have made Olympic history down the decades. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Initially trained as a ballet dancer, Gardner later founded and developed ballet schools in three English cities and Ottawa, Canada and was an overseas examiner for the Royal Academy. Current program 50 metre freestyle. British athletes have appeared in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, alongside Australia, France, Greece, and Switzerland. 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The Belle White Trophy is still awarded to the top female team at the English Age Group Championships. They divorced in 2000. Davies gave birth to her third child on 30 January 2007. 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. Glover would also compete at Tokyo 2020 as the first mother to represent Team GB in rowing. Three male pentathletes represented Great Britain in 1980. 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). 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. Richard Charlesworth (swimmer) Elizabeth Church. See also. [26], Davies's third marriage was to British Airways pilot Tony Kingston. Bengt Baron, winner of the 100-metre backstroke. Janet Evans. 50 years after first competing in the Olympic fencing programme, Sheen bagged Team GB their first gold. Sheen, a dental surgeon, settled in New York and set up an orthodontics practice alongside her husband. [31] Other Olympic medal-winning sports people have spoken in opposition, including Madeline Groves. At the 2008 Beijing Games, Rebecca Adlington became Britains most successful swimmer for 100 years when she won two gold medals. Davies won silver for Great Britain in the 400m individual medley in Moscow . It was held in the Swimming Pool of the Olimpiysky Sports Complex between July 20 and July 27. Times, 29 May 1978, p. 12", "Hennessy, John. 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. East German women dominated the swimming events, winning nine of eleven individual titles, both the relays and setting 6 world records. Australian swimmers Mina Wylie and Fanny Durack at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm. Find out more information about how athletes are selected to compete in major swimming events in Great Britain. Twelve cyclists represented Great Britain in 1980. [5], She learned to swim at the age of six and was training seriously two years later. . Vladimir Salnikov, winner of the 400-metre freestyle, 1500-metre freestyle, and 4200-metre freestyle relay. Women. Overview: Adrian David Moorhouse MBE (born 24 May 1964) is an English former competitive swimmer who dominated British swimming in the late 1980s. He won the 100 fly at the Seoul Olympics in 1988. Polina Astakhova Medals: 5 Gold, 2 Silver, 3 Bronze = 37 points For number eight on our list, we have a tie between two great female athletes, Polina Astakhova and Raisa Smetanina. [6], At 18, Davies called time on the first stage of her swimming career to build her television profile and a career in modelling. 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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. Following in Rands footsteps, Peters redefined womens multi-eventing and delivered the performance of her life on the biggest possible stage at Munich 1972. We are the home of British Swimming. [33], In 2022, Davies alleged that trans women hold a potential biological male performance advantage at the elite level of 1020% over cisgender females and called for women's sport to exclude XY chromosome athletes. 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. 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]. 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. Times, 24 May 1980, p. 17", "Hennessy, John. This is the complete list of women's Olympic medalists in swimming. Duncan Cleworth. The original golden girl of British athletics, Mary Rand delivered one of the great performances from a British female athlete at Tokyo 1964. There was a total of 333 participants from 41 countries competing. 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. Because the number of participants was reduced by the boycott, FINA broke format by doing away with the semifinals. There was a total of 333 participants from 41 countries competing.[1]. Its fair to say they were different times. 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 . With 400m gold Adlington became the first British woman since 1960 to win swimming gold and then the first British swimmer full stop to win multiple medals with 800m glory. "Selectors juggle numbers for Bonn." Overall Great Britain has won more medals in the 200m Breaststroke than any other, winning ten medals including four gold. In two Olympics, she competed in 11 events and won 11 medals, three gold. But Adlingtons double gold in Beijing took some beating in a sport where Britains women had conspicuously struggled for decades. "[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]. [30], In 2019, Davies entered the debate about the participation by trans women in female sporting competitions, opposing such participation, saying that trans women hold a biological advantage in sports. [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. 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. Katarina Johnson-Thompson holds the British record for the women's pentathlon with 5,000 points. Figure skater Colledge is the youngest athlete to have ever represented Team GB. 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Morton was never earmarked as the first British woman to win an individual Olympic swimming title. [31] Olympic medal-winning sports people in support of this position include: Sally Gunnell and Nicola Adams. 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. For venues and dates see British Swimming Championships. 1976-1980: not included in the Olympic program: 1984 Los Angeles details: Tracy Caulkins Sebastian Coe of Great Britain raises his arms in celebration as he crosses the finish line to win the men's 1500m race at the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow. Swimming. Birthplace: Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England. Jrg Woithe, winner of the 100-metre freestyle. 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 . The performance of the Great Britain Swimming team at Rio 2016 is the most successful since 1908. Whites story is little known but her name lives on in the sport to this day. Note: swimmers who swam only in preliminary rounds also received medals. She also competed in the international community spanning over 20 years. Men. This information about British divers at the Olympic Games is based on the official olympic reports and the Olympian Database: Olympics By Ullstein Bild/Getty Images. They were divorced in 1991. Rio saw the Swimming Team came home with one gold and five silver medals. Davies has attended 12 consecutive Olympic Games, competing in three games[2] and then working in the media for the BBC Sport. 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). When a. 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. 4. He represented Great Britain at the 1980 Moscow Olympics where he won a gold medal and a silver medal in the 100 . 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]. * Swimmers who participated in the heats only and received medals. Since retiring from the sport, she has worked for various media organisations and programmes. 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. Like Adlington, Glover broke the glass ceiling for British woman on the rowing lake as she became the nations first female Olympic champion in the sport alongside Heather Stanning. In the 1980s, Davies lived with and was engaged to Neil Adams[24] an Olympic and World Championship medallist in judo. Davies then married gym manager John Crisp in West Sussex in 1987. Also a proficient swimmer who won international titles in the water, she went on to compete at three further Games and did so at nearly 34 years of age in 1928. 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. When David Sims held on for second place in the 1500-meter freestyle at the U.S. 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.. It has been a big hurdle getting FINA to be the first governing body to do it, but the battle's not over yet. She was also the face of the Swim for Life charity event which raised total over 10m for many charities. Davies was born in Plymouth, Devon, and grew up in Plymouth and Plymstock. 9,10 During the 1980's and 90's, Olympic athletes were more frequently supported by their governments to . The last Briton to reach the 400m Individual Medley final isMax Litchfield in 2016. Rebecca Adlington. Sharron Davies MBE is a British. June Croft swam in a British women's swimming record eight Olympic finals, three in 1980 in Moscow and five more 4 years later in Los Angeles. It was valued by BBC expert Adam Schoon at 15,000. 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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