Jill Slattery

Last updated

Jill Slattery
Jill Slattery 1966.jpg
Jill Slattery in 1966
Personal information
Born (1945-05-25) 25 May 1945 (age 80)
Sheffield, England
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Event
 Breaststroke
ClubAttercliffe Swimming Club
Sheffield City Swimming Club
Medal record
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
European Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1966 Utrecht 200 m breaststroke
Representing Flag of England.svg  England
British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1966 Kingston 220 yd breaststroke
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg1966 Kingston110 yd breaststroke

Gillian "Jill" Slattery (born 25 May 1945) is a female retired British Swimmer who competed at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. [1]

Contents

Biography

At the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Slattery particiated in the 200 metres breaststroke. [2]

Slattery won a bronze medal in the 200 metres breaststroke at the 1966 European Aquatics Championships. [3] She represented the England team [4] at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, [5] where she reached the finals of both of the breaststroke events [6] [7] and won a gold and silver medal respectively. [8]

A second Olympic appearabnce ensued at the 1968 Olympics Games in Mexico. [2]

At the ASA National British Championships she won the 110 yards breaststroke title in 1964 and the 220 yards breaststroke title in 1967 and 1968. [9] [10]

References

  1. ↑ Jill Slattery Archived 2012-11-13 at the Wayback Machine . sports-reference.com
  2. 1 2 "Biographical information". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
  3. ↑ Jill SLATTERY. les-sports.info
  4. ↑ "West girls in Empire games swim team" . Western Daily Press. 20 June 1966. p. 10. Retrieved 13 December 2025– via British Newspaper Archive.
  5. ↑ "1966 Athletes". Team England. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
  6. ↑ "England Kingston 1966". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 20 September 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
  7. ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
  8. ↑ "Commonwealth Games Medallists - Swimming and Diving (men)". GBR Athletics. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
  9. ↑ ""Four new caps." Times, 14 Aug. 1967, p. 12". Times Digital Archive.
  10. ↑ "From Our Swimming Correspondent. "Meagre Swimming Team For Tokyo." Times, 24 Aug. 1964, p. 3". Times Digital Archive.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.