"April, with open water event swimmers selected after performance in the 2008 World Open Water Swimming Championships, in Seville, Spain. In winning six medals (two gold, two silver and two bronze) the team bettered the target of three medals set by UK Sport. The most successful swimmer was Rebecca Adlington who won two gold medals. Her 400 m freestyle success was Britain's first Olympic swimming title since 1988, and the first swimming gold by a British woman since 1960. Her second gold, in the 800 m freestyle, meant she also equalled the best performance by a British woman, from any"
"Fran Halsall Francesca Jean Halsall (born 12 April 1990) is a retired English competitive swimmer who has represented Great Britain at the Olympics, FINA world championships, and European championships, and England at the Commonwealth Games. She competed primarily in freestyle and butterfly events. Halsall was the youngest member of the Team England swim squad at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, where she won silver medals in the 4×100-metre freestyle and 4×100-metre medley relays. She was a member of the European Aquatics Championships 4×100-metre medley relay team that took gold in August 2006 and successfully defended their title in August"
"the 50m freestyle posting a time of 24.30 seconds. This ended a disappointing drought of medals for Great Britain just one year after the London Olympics, though Halsall was the only swimmer to finish in a medal-winning position. Fran Halsall Francesca Jean Halsall (born 12 April 1990) is a retired English competitive swimmer who has represented Great Britain at the Olympics, FINA world championships, and European championships, and England at the Commonwealth Games. She competed primarily in freestyle and butterfly events. Halsall was the youngest member of the Team England swim squad at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, where"
"bronze on her 18th birthday. She won the silver medal in the 100 m freestyle behind Marleen Veldhuis of the Netherlands. Halsall represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 100 m butterfly, 50 m freestyle, 100 m freestyle, 4×100 m freestyle, 4×200 m freestyle and 4×100 m medley She reached the 100 m freestyle final and swam 54.29 where she finished eighth. She also swam a British record of 53.81 which helped the British quartet set a new national record of 3:38.18 in the 4×100 m freestyle. Halsall competed in 4 events at the 2009 world championships"
"event. On the first day of the Commonwealth Games, in the team all-around event, Wales won silver having led for much of the competition. On day two, she entered the individual all-around, scoring 56.225 to finish third to take bronze, while team-mate Jones finished ahead of her in silver position. In day three Halford came eighth in ribbon, fifth in hoop, but secured a third medal by taking a bronze in the ball. Halford competed at the 2014 World Championships in Izmir, Turkey placing 44th in the all-around qualifications. In 2015, Halford competed at the 2015 Lisboa World Cup finishing"
"and Olympic champion Katinka Hosszú. With six Commonwealth Games medals in total from 2014, O'Connor was England's most decorated athlete at those Games. In addition, O'Connor swam the breaststroke leg for Great Britain in the non-Olympic 4 x 100-metre mixed medley relay that won gold at the 2015 FINA World Aquatics Championships in a world record time for the event. she has also won gold medals in 2016 at the European Championships in the same event, and in the women's 4 x 100 metres medley relay. O'Connor first competed for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 100m"
"her in the Olympic regatta at Hyeres. In 2013, she teamed up with Sophie Ainsworth to compete in the 49erFX classification. The pair won a bronze medal at the World Cup event in Mallorca. They then finished sixth at the 2014 49er European Championships held in Helsinki, Finland. At the 2015 49erFX World Championships, held in San Isidro, Argentina, Dobson and Ainsworth finished in fifth place, four points behind the medal positions. In March 2016, Dobson and Ainsworth were selected as part of the Great Britain team for the 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,"
"Great Britain squad for the 2012 Summer Olympics. She soon took over as number one choice and won the silver medal for England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. In 2015, she enjoyed a breakthrough year, saving a penalty to ensure England won the EuroHockey Championships in London, then being nominated for FIH Goalkeeper of the Year. In 2016, she played in her first Olympic games, surpassing 100 international appearances during the Rio 2016 Olympics. She won an Olympic gold medal in Rio in 2016, saving all four penalties in the final shoot-out against The Netherlands. Her outstanding performance"
"2008 in Eindhoven. Halsall won five medals at the 2010 European Championships in Budapest, 2 Golds, 2 Silvers and a Bronze and was a member of the 4x100-metre medley relay team that successfully defended their title for a second time. In winning five medals, she became the most successful British swimmer ever at a single championships. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, Halsall won a gold medal, with a national record of 26.19 seconds, in the 50-metre butterfly, beating the favoured Australians. In the 100-metre freestyle Halsall was expected to win easily but a bout of illness"
"due to illness and injury problems, but won the individual gold medal at the 2012 World Cup in Sofia. She won three successive British Championship titles between 2013 and 2015, and was a member of the British teams that won gold at the 2013 World Championships, and the 2014 and 2016 European Championships. She finished fifth in the individual event at the 2015 World Championships. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Page and her British teammate Kat Driscoll became Great Britain's first ever finalists in trampolining, with Page qualifying in seventh position. During the final she posted"
"of the British Athletics Championships, at which she was runner-up to Tiffany Porter. She did not improve her bests in 2014, but did place in the top three at the national championships, both indoors and out. This gained her her first international selection for England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. At the games she missed qualifying for the final by one thousandth of a second and ultimately ranked tenth overall. She also represented Great Britain for the first time at the 2014 European Team Championships Super League, in which she placed eighth overall in the hurdles. She had"
"horse, an historically strong event for Great Britain. It was Great Britain's sole artistic gymnastics medal of the Games. Q : qualified for apparatus final QA : qualified for the All-Around final R : reserve for apparatus final Great Britain qualified two athletes based on the results at the 2014 European Trampoline Championships. The female gymnasts competed in both the individual and the synchronized event. Kat Driscoll won her first major international individual trampoline medal for Great Britain at the Games, having previously won several in synchronized trampoline. Great Britain endured a difficult time on the judo mat; reaching only"
"finished 6th. In 2011, she represented Great Britain at the World University Games in Shenzhen, China, making it to the finals and finishing 7th. Missing out on the 2012 Olympics in London, she then had to wait until 2013 to represent her country again, when she represented Britain in the European Athletics Team Championships in the 3000m steeplechase and finished 5th with her best run of the season. Then in 2014, she represented Scotland in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the steeplechase, and finished 10th. She also competed again in the 2014 European Athletics Team Championships in Braunschweig, Germany, and"
"when she travelled to Montreal as part of the Great Britain team. There she won five medals, a bronze in the 400m freestyle, three silver in the 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle and 100m butterfly and became world champion in the 100m backstroke. The following year she took part in the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships in Eindhoven. At the games she continued her rivalry with Russian Darya Stukalova which began in Montreal. Russell won six medals, all silver, apart from the 100m backstroke for which she took gold on the day of her eighteenth birthday. Just after her eighteenth birthday,"
"contributed an all-around score of 53.366 toward England's team gold and qualified fifth into the all-around final, where she won bronze, scoring 54.699. Her teammates Claudia Fragapane and Ruby Harrold won gold and silver, respectively, for an all-English podium. Hannah Whelan Hannah Kate Whelan (born 1 July 1992) is a retired British artistic gymnast who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. Whelan won three European Championships medals and four British senior national titles, and was the bronze medallist in the all-around at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Whelan, the daughter of Mike and Karen Whelan, was"
"of the South Africa team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in Queensland. Susan Nel Susanna Sophie Nel (born 27 August 1956) is a South African lawn bowler. She competed in the women's fours and the women's triples events at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won a gold and bronze medal respectively. Nel picked up a Bronze medal at the Atlantic Championships held at Cyprus (30 November – 13 December 2015), in the Triples section (along with Anneke Snyman and Sylvia Burns). In 2016, she won a bronze medal with Elma Davis and Sylvia Burns in"
"the side. She also earned seven bronze medals at European championships, and played professional wheelchair basketball in Italy with Sardinia Sassari, one of the first British women to do so. She also earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Sport and Exercise Science from Loughborough University in 2003. In May 2016, she was named as part of the team for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. The British team produced its best ever performance at the Paralympics, making it all the way to the semi-finals, but lost to the semi-final to the United States, and then the bronze medal match"
"Welsh title, also taking gold in the individual ball event. A few days later she travelled to Stoke to defend her British Championship title. Her score of 61.465 across the ball, hoop, ribbon and clubs saw her retain her crown, which also saw the return of Frankie Jones to the competition. In June 2014 it was announced that Halford had been selected for the Wales team at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. At Glasgow she was entered for four individual events, the ball, hoop, ribbon and all-around; while she was joined by Jones and Jenkins to compete for the team all-around"
"Louise Hazel Louise Victoria Hazel (born 6 October 1985) is an English track and field athlete from March, Cambridgeshire, who specialises in the multi-event heptathlon. She has competed in four major international championships. The first was in 2006 when she came 17th at the European Championships and the second was three years later when she finished 14th at the World Championships. During 2009 she was ranked 2nd best in the country and 9th best of all time. In the 2010 Commonwealth Games she won the gold medal for the England team, with a personal best of 6156 points. At the"
"in Rome. She set a championship record for the 100m freestyle in the lead-off leg during the heats, and swam the lead leg in the final, with Great Britain placing 7th. Halsall placed 5th in the 50m freestyle in a national record of 24.11. In the 100m, she out-touched Lisbeth Trickett of Australia to take silver in a national record of 52.87, with Germany's Britta Steffen winning in a new world record of 52.07. Halsall also anchored the 4x100 metre medley relay to 5th place. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Halsall competed in five events. Halsall reached the"
"and finished fourth in the women's long jump F13. She also took bronze in the 2012 Summer Paralympics (London) 100 metre T13. In the 2014 IPC Athletics European Championships in Swansea, she won the gold medal in the women's 400 metre T13. The next year she followed her European success with two medals at the 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships in Doha. She won silver in the T13 100m and took gold in the 400m to add the world title to her accolades. At the 2016 IPC Athletics European Championships she successfully defended her 400m title and added the 100m"
"and 2018 Commonwealth Games, and the 200 metre freestyle champion at the same European Games and the 2018 European Aquatics Championships. Winning three gold medals in the (100 m and 200 m freestyle, and 4 × 100 m freestyle relay) at the 2015 European Games., he was the most successful British athlete at the European Games. A month later, he formed part of the Great Britain squad that won the gold medal at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in the men's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay as the 4th leg swimmer in the heat, before being replaced for the"
"the waist. During her rehabilitation at a spinal unit in Glasgow, Butterfield was introduced to the sport of wheelchair rugby. In early 2012 she joined the Caledonian Crushers, and later became their vice-captain. In 2014 Butterfield was classified as a F51 disability athlete and began competing in regional meets in both the discus and club throw events. In August that year she was selected for the Great Britain team to compete at the 2014 IPC Athletics European Championships. There she competed in the F32/51 club throw, and set a new European record with a distance of 17.68m winning gold in"
"successful four times internationally, and in the following year she won the bronze medal at the European Championships in women's doubles. She competed in the mixed team and mixed doubles event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where she won silver medals respectively. She also won mixed team bronze in 2010. She has a degree in Coach Education and Sports Development from the University of Bath. She was both a triple jumper and a 200m sprinter at Heathfield Community College in East Sussex. ""Mixed Doubles"" ""Women's Doubles"" The BWF Grand Prix has two level such as Grand Prix and Grand Prix"
"and moved to Loughborough to continue her High jumping with Fuzz Caan and his group. In 2017, she qualified for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games but suffered another knee injury in January 2018 which caused her to withdraw from the squad. Emma Nuttall Emma Maud Nuttall (born 23 April 1992) is a British track and field athlete who specialises in the high jump. She represented Scotland at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and won the British title in 2013. She held the Scottish Indoor record with a clearance of 1.88 metres in 2014 which was only beaten in 2018 (1.90)"
"came ninth in the 3000 m at the 2014 European Team Championships then made her debut for England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, running a personal best of 32:33.35 minutes to come fourth in the 10,000 m (beaten only by Kenyan opposition). Her third and final international outing that year was her most successful. At the 2014 European Cross Country Championships she ran in the senior race for the first time. Aiming for a top ten placing, she ran hard from the front and was rewarded with a silver medal after losing a close finish to team mate Gemma Steel."
"is also a graduate of Biochemistry from the University of Bath. As a junior, McAslan represented Great Britain at the 2011 European Junior Championships. She finished fourth in her heat. She later anchored the junior quartet to a gold medal in the 4 × 400 m relay three days later. In 2014, she ran for Scotland in the 4 × 400 m relay at the 2015 Glasgow Commonwealth Games. The Scottish team placed fourth in their heat and did not make it to the final of the event. In 2015, McAslan became the British indoor 400 m champion. She ran"
"Ross Haslam Ross Haslam (born 2 October 1997) is British diver. He represented Great Britain in the European Championships and won a bronze in mixed synchronised 3 metre springboard. Ross Haslam was born in Sheffield on 2 October 1997. He first started diving when he was 6. He has a brother Jack who is also a diver. Haslam first won an individual senior national medal with a bronze in the 10 metre platform at the 2012 British National Cup. The same year he started representing Great Britain in the European Junior Championships. In 2015, at the inaugural European Games held"
"Claudia Fragapane Claudia Fragapane (born 24 October 1997) is a British artistic gymnast. She came to prominence at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she was the first English woman to win four gold medals since 1930. In 2015, Fragapane was part of the women's gymnastics team that won Great Britain's first-ever team medal, a bronze, at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Fragapane grew up in Bristol, where she attended St Bernadette Catholic Secondary School. She started gymnastics at age six. At the British national championships in 2014, Fragapane placed"
"in the S14 100 metres backstroke final while representing Ireland. Firth, who has learning difficulties, had been swimming for only three years. Firth won three silver medals at the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships. Later in the same year she announced her intention to switch national team and swim for Team GB instead of Ireland after serving a period out of competition, as ""Team GB has other S14 swimmers – who have learning disabilities – with whom she can relate."" The following year she represented Northern Ireland in the 2014 Commonwealth Games, competing in seven events against able-bodied athletes. In"
"the 4 x 200 metres relay at the 2014 IAAF World Relays, and a gold medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2014 European Championships. In the same year, representing England, she won a bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay and finished fourth in the 100 metres final at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. In 2016, she competed at the Olympic Games in Rio. Philip reached the semifinals of the 100 metres, but did not qualify for the finals as she finished last in her heat. Philip then went on to win a bronze medal"
"is classified as an S8 swimmer. She initially trained under Steve Hadler at Southern Cross Swimming Club, Scarborough and Suellyn Fraser at the Bribie Island Aquatic Leisure Centre. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, she won the bronze medal in the Women's 100 m Freestyle S8. Competing at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, she won a gold medal in the Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay 34 points, silver medals in the Women's 50 m Freestyle S8 and Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay 34 points and bronze medals in the Women's 100"
"grew up in Ashover, Derbyshire and was educated at Highfields School, Matlock and Repton School, Derbyshire. A qualified teacher, she taught and coached hockey at Oakham School until July 2014, and became a full-time athlete, based at Bisham Abbey. She is supported by the National Lottery Fund and sponsored by Osaka Hockey. She has competed for the England and Great Britain women's hockey teams, including the 2014 & 2018 World Cups, 2014 Commonwealth Games, 2014 Champions Trophy, 2015 World League Finals and was a member of the Rio 2016 Gold medal winning squad. In the final year of her international"