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| Nationality | British (English) | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 April 2009 England | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
| Event | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | City of Salford SC | |||||||||||||||||
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Amelie Blocksidge (born 9 April 2009) is a swimmer from England, who is a British Champion. [1] [2]
In 2022, Blocksidge won five events at the all ages British Summer Championships and also won the open water event. She was the youngest member of the England Youth Squad that raced in Sweden. [3]
She came to prominence in 2023, after winning the gold medal at the 2023 British Swimming Championships in the 1500 metres freestyle. [4] During the title win she broke the national record, after recording a time of 16 minutes, 19.67 seconds. [5]
Blocksidge won both the 800 metres freestyle and the 1500 metres freestyle at the 2024 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships. Despite setting a national age-group record in the 800, Blocksidge missed out on a place at the 2024 Summer Olympics. [6]
Rebecca Adlington is an English former competitive swimmer who specialised in freestyle events in international competition. She won two gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 400-metre freestyle and 800-metre freestyle, breaking the 19-year-old world record of Janet Evans in the 800-metre final. Adlington was Britain's first Olympic swimming champion since 1988, and the first British swimmer to win two Olympic gold medals since 1908. After winning her first World Championship gold over 800 metres in 2011, along with silver in the 400 metres at the same meet, she won bronze medals in both the women's 400-metre and 800-metre freestyle events in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Adlington is one of the few people to have won Olympic Games, World Championships, continental championships and Commonwealth Games gold medals, although she did not win a set in any one event.
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