Nick Gillingham

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Nick Gillingham
MBE
Personal information
Full nameNicholas Gillingham
Nickname"Nick"
National teamGreat Britain
Born (1967-01-22) 22 January 1967 (age 57)
Walsall, England
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight72 kg (159 lb; 11.3 st)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Breaststroke
ClubCity of Birmingham SC
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1988 Seoul 200 m breaststroke
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1992 Barcelona 200 m breaststroke
World Championships (LC)
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1991 Perth 200 m breaststroke
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1993 Palma 200 m breaststroke
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1993 Palma 4×100 m medley
European Championships (LC)
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1989 Bonn 200 m breaststroke
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1991 Athens 200 m breaststroke
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1993 Sheffield 200 m breaststroke
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1993 Sheffield 100 m breaststroke
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1989 Bonn 100 m breaststroke
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1993 Sheffield 4×100 m medley
Representing Flag of England.svg  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1994 Victoria 200 m breaststroke
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1986 Edinburgh 4×100 m medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1994 Victoria 100 m breaststroke
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1986 Edinburgh 200 m breaststroke
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1990 Auckland 100 m breaststroke
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1990 Auckland 200 m breaststroke
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1994 Victoria 4×100 m medley

Nicholas Gillingham, MBE (born 22 January 1967) is an English former competitive swimmer, active in the 1980s and 1990s. Born in Walsall, he represented Great Britain in the Olympics, FINA World championships and European championships, as well as representing England in the Commonwealth Games. Medalling in two Olympic Games in 1988 and 1992, he was a World (short course), European and Commonwealth champion in his specialist event, the 200 metres breaststroke. His career broadly overlapped with fellow British breaststroker and Olympic 100 metre breaststroke champion, Adrian Moorhouse.

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Swimming career

Olympic Games

Gillingham participated in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won the silver medal in the 200-metre breaststroke in a Commonwealth record of 2:14.12, [1] followed by a bronze medal in the same event four years later at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in another Commonwealth record of 2:11.29. [2] Although better known as a 200m breaststroke swimmer, Gillingham was also a world class 100m swimmer and was ranked first in the world in 1992 with his Commonwealth record of 1:01.33 from the British Olympic trials. However, he sustained a leg injury during the Olympics which impaired his performance in the 100m final where he finished 7th, half a second slower than his heat time. [3]

Commonwealth Games

Gillingham won seven Commonwealth Games medals; he represented England and won a silver medal in the 4 x 100 metres medley relay and a bronze medal in the 200 metres breaststroke, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. [4] Four years later he represented England and won two bronze medals in the 100 metres and 200 metres breaststroke, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand. [5] At the 1994 Commonwealth Games he won the gold medal in the 200 metres breaststroke, the silver medal in the 100 metres breaststroke and a bronze medal in medley relay. [6]

Other

In August 1989 in the European Championships, he equalled the existing world record in the long-course 200-metre breaststroke in a time of 2:12.90, [7] only to co-hold it for a single day before the other record co-holder, American Mike Barrowman, lowered the record again.

He was trained by Tim Jones and also won the world title at the first inaugural 1993 FINA Short Course World Championships in Palma de Mallorca. He broke three world, ten European, nine Commonwealth and seventeen British records during his career and won 17 major championships.

He dominated the ASA National Championships in the breaststroke events, following on from his predecessor Adrian Moorhouse and won the 100 metres breaststroke title in 1992 and 1993 [8] [9] and the 200 metres breaststroke on eight occasions (1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1995). [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]

Personal life

Gillingham was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1993 New Year Honours for services to swimming, [17] and retired from full-time competitive sport in 1996. After retiring, he established a sports communications business focusing on sports marketing, development & events. Recently, Gillingham took part in a scheme called Young Ambassadors, promoting youth sport development in the North East of England at Loughborough.

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References

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  2. ↑ "Men 200m Breaststroke Swimming Olympic Games 1992 Barcelona (ESP)". 30 May 2009. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
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  5. ↑ "1990 Athletes". Team England.
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