Karen Lee (swimmer)

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Karen Lee
Personal information
Full nameKaren Barbara Lee
National teamFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Born (1983-01-01) 1 January 1983 (age 41)
Bristol, England
Height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight64 kg (141 lb; 10.1 st)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Backstroke
College team Loughborough University [1]
CoachBen Titley [1]

Karen Barbara Lee (born 1 January 1983) is an English former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics and European championships. She specialized in backstroke events. [2] She finished sixth in the 200-metre backstroke (2.10.27) at the 2002 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Riesa, Germany. [3] She was also a member of Team GB starting in 1998, and a varsity swimmer for the Loughborough University team, under head coach Ben Titley. [1] [4]

Lee qualified for the women's 200-metre backstroke, as a member of Team GB, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She finished second behind Katy Sexton (2:11.48) at the British Olympic Trials by 0.38 of a second, in a FINA A-standard of 2:11.86. [5] [6] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including Germany's Antje Buschschulte and Russia's Stanislava Komarova, both of whom were top medal favorites. She faded to seventh place by a 5.39-second margin behind winner Komarova in 2:16.10. Lee missed the semifinals by nearly one second, as she placed twentieth overall in the preliminaries. [7] [8]

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References

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  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Karen Lee". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  3. ↑ "Rupprath, Klochkova Win Third Gold as Euro Short Course Champs Wind Up". Swimming World Magazine. 16 December 2002. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  4. ↑ "British Squad for European Short Course Champs is Mix of Old and Young". Swimming World Magazine. 28 September 2005. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
  5. ↑ "Swimming – Women's 200m Backstroke Startlist (Heat 4)" (PDF). Athens 2004 . Omega Timing. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
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