Kathryn Evans (swimmer)

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Kathryn Evans
Personal information
Full nameKathryn Evans
National teamFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Born (1981-08-05) 5 August 1981 (age 43)
Luton, England
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight67 kg (148 lb; 10.6 st)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, medley
ClubNova Centurion
CoachBill Furniss

Kathryn Evans (born 5 August 1981) is an English former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games. Evans specialised in freestyle and individual medley events. [1] She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004), and a double British champion in the 200 m individual medley (2001 and 2002). [2] Evans also played for Nova Centurion Swim Club in Nottingham, under head coach Bill Furniss. [3] Evans is the cousin of late rower Acer Nethercott, who competed in the men's eight at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. [4]

Evans made her Olympic debut, as a member of Team GB, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the 200 m individual medley. Swimming in heat five, she rounded out a field of eight swimmers to last place and twenty-fourth overall in 2:19.41, just 5.58 seconds behind defending Olympic champion Yana Klochkova of Ukraine. [5]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Evans competed only in two events as a relay swimmer. [6] [7] She finished second in the 100 m freestyle from the Olympic trials in Sheffield, posting a relay entry time of 55.52. [8] On the first day of the Games, Evans helped out the Brits to pull off a sixth-place effort in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay with a final time of 3:40.82. Teaming with Melanie Marshall, Karen Pickering, and Lisa Chapman in the final, Evans swam a second leg, and posted a lifetime best of 54.33. [9] [10] [11] Exactly a week later, in the 4 × 100 m medley relay, Evans, along with Katy Sexton, Kirsty Balfour, and Georgina Lee, finished in fifth place, but were later disqualified due to an early take-off in the anchor freestyle leg. [12] [13] [14]

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References

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