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Full name | Jessica Sylvester | |||||||||||||
Nationality | British | |||||||||||||
Born | Newcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom | 9 July 1987|||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||
Club | Nova Centurion SC, Nottingham | |||||||||||||
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Sylvester represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 4×100 m freestyle relay swimming event.
Jessica was raised in the small Village of Cheddleton and attended Westwood High School in Leek, before leaving to attend Nottingham University.
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