Janet Beth Evans is an American former competition swimmer who specialized in distance freestyle events. Evans was a world champion and world record-holder, and won a total of four gold medals at the 1988 and the 1992 Olympics.
Competitive swimwear refers to the swimsuit, clothing, equipment and accessories used in the aquatic sports of swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, triathlon and water polo.
Katy Sexton, MBE is a former female Olympic swimmer from Great Britain. She became the first British swimmer to win a World Championship title, when she won the Women's 200m Back at the 2003 World Championships. She is twice an Olympian and has represented Great Britain in four World Championships, the first in 1998 when she was 16, and in three Commonwealth Games. She was given the MBE for services to swimming in the 2004 New Year Honours list.
The sport of swimming is the second biggest participation sport in the UK and as the nation strives to improve its health and fitness, the popularity of swimming continues to grow. Teaching, Training and participating in competitive swimming is very active in Kent.
Leeds has a strong sporting heritage, with the Yorkshire County Cricket Club, Leeds Rhinos and Yorkshire Carnegie playing at Headingley Stadium, and Leeds United A.F.C. playing at Elland Road. The Headquarters of the Rugby Football League is based in Leeds. Leeds City Council also offer a wide variety of sport, leisure and fitness sessions both in their leisure centres and the community.
The John Charles Centre for Sport is a sports facility in South Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was previously named the South Leeds Stadium and was renamed to honour John Charles (1931–2004), the former Leeds United, Juventus F.C. and Wales footballer. It is located to the south of Leeds city centre roughly on the border of Beeston, Belle Isle and Hunslet. The sports centre opened in 1996.
David Evan Roberts CBE, is a Welsh swimmer. An eleven-time Paralympic gold medallist, he is one of Great Britain's most successful Paralympians ever.
Gloucester City Swimming Club is a swimming club based in Gloucester, England, which was founded in 1910. Its home pool is GL1. It has many stages of development for the swimmers including a disability and university squad.
The sport of swimming is the second biggest participation sport in the UK and as the nation strives to improve its health and fitness, the popularity of swimming continues to grow. Teaching, Training and participating in competitive swimming is very active in London.
Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water. Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual medley. In addition to these individual events, four swimmers can take part in either a freestyle or medley relay. A medley relay consists of four swimmers who will each swim a different stroke, ordered as backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle. Swimming each stroke requires a set of specific techniques; in competition, there are distinct regulations concerning the acceptable form for each individual stroke. There are also regulations on what types of swimsuits, caps, jewelry and injury tape that are allowed at competitions. Although it is possible for competitive swimmers to incur several injuries from the sport, such as tendinitis in the shoulders or knees, there are also multiple health benefits associated with the sport.
Bristol has a number of notable professional sports teams and a large number of active amateur sports clubs. There are also large numbers of participants in individual sports. The city has two Football League clubs, Bristol City F.C. who play in the second tier and Bristol Rovers F.C. who play in the third tier. Gloucestershire County Cricket Club has its headquarters in the city. Bristol Bears are currently in Premiership Rugby.
Portsmouth Northsea swimming club (PNSC) was founded in 1927. It began when a group of swimmers met in the ‘Northsea Arms’ at Stamshaw and decided to form a Swimming Club, which they called Northsea SC. The name was then altered to PORTSMOUTH NORTHSEA SWIMMING CLUB some years later.
Durham University Swimming Club is the swimming club of Durham University. The club is made up of a wide selection of swimmers throughout the university from the various colleges, though is mainly aimed towards swimmers competing for the University. They compete every year in the British Universities and Colleges Sport Championships in both the Short Course and Long Course championships, both held at the international swimming pool Ponds Forge, Sheffield in November and February respectively.
The Huddersfield Town Development Squad are the reserve team of the Premiership club Huddersfield Town. They play competitively as the Huddersfield Town Under 21s in the Professional Development League 2 Northern Division, of which they finished 1st in the 2013-14 season, but then proceeded to lose the nationwide play-off semi-final against Queens Park Rangers.
Hemel Hempstead Swimming Club is a swimming club based in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and was established in 1913. Hemel Hempstead Swimming Club (HHSC) ranks as one of Hertfordshire's premier clubs. The Club has in excess of 220 members from age 5 to Masters Level and their swimmers compete regularly in a wide range of competitions.
Michael Auprince, is an Australian swimmer and wheelchair basketball player. He set several swimming records and was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London in swimming, where he won gold and bronze medals.
James Crisp is a British swimmer. He has won gold medals in the Paralympic Games as well as the IPC world and European championships, breaking numerous records in the process. He competes in S9 classification events after having contracted polio as a child.
Wyre Forest Swimming Club (WFSC) is a volunteer led Competitive Swimming Club and a Registered Charity based in the north of the county or Worcestershire. It serves three main centres of population Kidderminster, Stourport and Bewdley. It formed in 1998 when Stourport and Kidderminster Swimming Clubs merged.
Andrew Mullen is a British Paralympian swimmer. Mullen competes in the S5 disability category in freestyle, backstroke and butterfly, specialising in sprint events. He competed in the 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics and won a silver and two bronze medals in 2016. Earlier in 2013 he won silver and bronze at the World Championships in Montreal.
Jacob Templeton is an Australian Paralympic swimmer. He represented Australia at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.
