Tamsin Cook

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Tamsin Cook
Tamsin Cook.jpg
Portrait of Tamsin Cook at HBF Stadium taken on 13 July 2016
Personal information
National teamFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Born (1998-12-25) 25 December 1998 (age 25) [1]
Cape Town, South Africa [2]
Height1.7 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
ClubUWA West Coast
CoachMick Pelfrey
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing Australia
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Rio de Janeiro 4×200 m freestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2020 Tokyo 4×200 m freestyle
Oceanian Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Auckland 400 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2014 Auckland 4×200 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2014 Auckland 200 m butterfly
World Junior Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Singapore 400 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Singapore 4×200 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2015 Singapore 200 m butterfly
Junior Pan Pacific Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2014 Maui 400 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2014 Maui 4×200 m freestyle

Tamsin Cook (born 25 December 1998) is an Australian swimmer and the former junior world champion in the 400-meter freestyle. After a neck injury in 2018 she retired from swimming, but returned in 2020 and qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

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Junior career

Cook participated in the 2014 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Maui, Hawaii. [3]

She won the gold medal in the 400 meter freestyle at the 2015 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Singapore in a new Championships record. [4] [5] She also broke the Championships record in the 200 meter freestyle with her lead-off leg in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay final. In that race she and her teammates broke the junior world record. Cook also won a silver medal in the 200 meter butterfly. [6]

In October 2015, Cook was named Western Australian Institute of Sport's Junior Athlete of the Year. [7] The following year, she was named WAIS Junior Athlete of the Year, for the second year defeating other young athletes including diver Nikita Hains. [8]

Senior career

In April 2016, Cook qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the 400-meter freestyle, which was her first Olympics. [9] She finished 6th in the final.

After a neck injury disqualified her from the 2018 Commonwealth Games, she retired from swimming in June 2018 to focus on her university studies. [10]

Personal life

Cook moved from South Africa to Perth, Australia when she was 8. She was attending St Mark's Anglican Community School until year 11. Cook moved to the School of Isolated and Distance Education in year 11 to focus on her swimming. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2015 - Women's 200m Freestyle - Entry List by Event" (PDF). Swimming World . 1 October 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
  2. ↑ "Tamsin Cook". olympics.com.au. Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "WA swimmers selected to represent Australia overseas". News.com.au. 30 April 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  4. ↑ "Aussie Tamsin Cook Clocks New 400 Freestyle World Juniors Meet Record". SwimSwam. 28 August 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "Tamsin Cook Edges Meet Record in 400 Free at 2015 FINA World Junior Championships". Swimming World . 28 August 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  6. ↑ "Wang Siqi Edges Tamsin Cook for 200 Fly Crown at 2015 World Junior Championships". Swimming World . 26 August 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  7. ↑ "Tamsin Cook Wins West Australia's Junior Athlete Of The Year Award". SwimSwam. 11 August 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  8. ↑ S. Cahill, Denise (19 October 2016). "Tamsin Cook WAIS Junior Athlete". Perth Now. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  9. ↑ Lord, Craig (8 April 2016). "Rio Tickets For Jess Ashwood, Tamsin Cook, Emma McKeon, Maddy Groves & Jake Packard". Swimvortex. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
  10. ↑ Lacy, Bridget (5 June 2018). "Swimming shock as teenager Cook quits pool". The West Australian. Retrieved 6 June 2018.
  11. ↑ "Cook leads resurgence of WA swimming". The West Australian . 17 October 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
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