In the 1980s, Davies lived with and was engaged to Neil Adams[24] an Olympic and World Championship medallist in judo. 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 Instead, the top 8 finishers from the heats qualified directly for the final, or final A as it was called. 1. The Belle White Trophy is still awarded to the top female team at the English Age Group Championships. She won four gold medals at the 1988 and the 1992 Olympics and some of her world records stood for over 20 years. This information about British divers at the Olympic Games is based on the official olympic reports and the Olympian Database: Olympics Times, 30 May 1978, p. 6", "Hennessy, John. 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. But she did just that in the 200m breaststroke at Paris 1924, surging to gold as Britains world record holder Irene Gilbert languished in fifth place. [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. 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. Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics; Pages in category "Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 336 total. Theres No Closure to It Members of 1980 US Olympic Swim Team - USMS "Swimming." See also. Davies was born in Plymouth, Devon, and grew up in Plymouth and Plymstock. [citation needed], She set a record by swimming for the British national team at the age of 11. 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. 24 swimmers added to Team GB for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Great Britain has never won an Olympic medal in either the 100m or 200m Butterfly events. This category includes swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. The original golden girl of British athletics, Mary Rand delivered one of the great performances from a British female athlete at Tokyo 1964. "Selectors juggle numbers for Bonn." British Swimminguse cookies on our websiteto give you the best possible experience. Sheila Clayton. 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. 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! [12], At the ASA National British Championships she won 22 titles - the 100 metres freestyle title in 1978, 200 metres freestyle title in 1977 and 1978, 400 metres freestyle title in 1977, 1978 and 1979, 800 metres freestyle title in 1978, 200 metres backstroke title in 1976, 1977 and 1978, 200 metres medley title in 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1989 and 1992, 400 metres medley title in 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 and 1980 and the 50 metres butterfly title in 1992. Moscow 1980 Swimming - Olympic Results by Discipline Category:Olympic swimmers of Great Britain - Wikipedia The last Briton to reach the 400m Individual Medley final isMax Litchfield in 2016. 4. Great Britain at the 1980 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia [25], In 1992, she met athlete Derek Redmond at the Barcelona Olympics. 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). 1976-1980: not included in the Olympic program: 1984 Los Angeles details: Tracy Caulkins Davies has broken or re broken many British records whilst competing and winning[7][8] For medals table see right. Famous British Female Swimmers - The Famous People "[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]. 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 reaching the final of the 100m Backstroke in Beijing 2008 Gemma Spofforth became Britains first finalist in the event since 1984. 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. Rio saw the Swimming Team came home with one gold and five silver medals. The last Freestyle medallist was David Davies in Athens 2004 who won a bronze medal in the 1500m. Hannah Mills also became the most decorated female sailor in Olympic history with 470 gold alongside Eilidh McIntyre. Moscow 1980 | Team GB Britain has had a finalist in the last two Olympics in the 200m Backstroke through Lizzie Simmonds (2008) and Katy Sexton (2004). Team GB have won gold at the last four Olympic Winter Games and all of those have been won by female athletes. Because the number of participants was reduced by the boycott, FINA broke format by doing away with the semifinals. Times, 26 May 1980, p. 11", "Downes, Steven. 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. Women's races are not there for mediocre males. Welcome to the home of our senior British athletes. British Olympic Gold Medallists 1896-2014 | Swimming 1980 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia [13][14][15][16][17][18][19], In the 1993 New Year Honours, Davies was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire "for services to swimming".[20]. Australian swimmers Mina Wylie and Fanny Durack at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm. No Briton has reached a breaststroke final since 1984 and no Briton has won a medal in the 100m Breastroke. [5], She learned to swim at the age of six and was training seriously two years later. Great Britain, represented by the British Olympic Association (BOA), competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. 333 swimmers from 41 nations competed.[1]. The event remains 'Open' which has resulted in many swimmers of various nationalities claiming the title over the years. Great British female Olympians down the decades | Team GB 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). List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women) - Wikipedia Gunnells dominance of womens endurance hurdling in this decade spoke for itself. This page is not available in other languages. The gold medal made her the first British woman to win gold in an Olympic athletics discipline. In 1994 they were married in Northampton, and had two children. She was also a presenter at London's Olympics Handover Party in, This page was last edited on 29 April 2023, at 17:45. Stanley Clarke (swimmer) Andrew Clayton. [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. Barred from the 1976 Olympics, These Swimmers Still Beat Olympic The Noughties heralded an initial explosion of Olympic success for British female athletes. Morton was never earmarked as the first British woman to win an individual Olympic swimming title. Giving birth at 44 doesn't worry me. The only male Individual Medley swimmer to win a medal is Neil Cochran with a bronze in the 200m event in 1984. 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 . 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. They were divorced in 1991. 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. British divers in the Olympic Games - Olympian Database [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. "Swimming." [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. This category has only the following subcategory. Former swimmer Sharron Davies hopes she will be given the gold medal she feels is deserved from the 1980 Olympics. 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. 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 . Colledge, who served as an ambulance driver in World War II, went on to win Olympic silver at Garmisch-Partenkirchen four years later. 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." English male swimmers - FamousFix.com list 7. Sharron Davies - Wikipedia Its fair to say they were different times. We are the home of British Swimming. She has twin brothers. Following in Rands footsteps, Peters redefined womens multi-eventing and delivered the performance of her life on the biggest possible stage at Munich 1972. When he asked what she'd been doing she replied, 'I've just won the Championship', at which point he said nothing, turned and went back to pruning his roses.

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