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Full name | Nicola Clare Jackson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1984-02-19) 19 February 1984 (age 40) Northallerton, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 52 kg (115 lb; 8.2 st) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle, butterfly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Derwentside ASC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nicola Jackson (born 19 February 1984) is a British former competitive swimmer who won two world championships in relay events.
Swimming career
In 1999, Jackson won a silver medal at the World Short Course Championships in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay. The next year, at the 2000 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), she won a bronze medal in the 50-metre butterfly, and a gold medal as part of Great Britain's world-record-breaking 4×200-metre freestyle relay team. Jackson swam in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, as a member of Great Britain's 4×200-metre freestyle relay team, which finished in sixth place. In 2001, she won her only international medal in a long course championship, in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships.
At the ASA National British Championships she won the 50 metres butterfly title in 1999.
Jackson studied at Durham University (Collingwood College). She is the sister of British swimmer Joanne Jackson.
See also
References
- ^ "Nicola Jackson Biography and Olympic Results". Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
- "British Olympic Association". Retrieved 5 January 2010.
- "The Road to Athens- Nicola Jackson". Retrieved 5 January 2010.
- "History of FINA – Women's Events" (PDF). Retrieved 5 January 2010.
- ""For the Record." Times, 10 July 1999, p. 36". Times Digital Archive.
- "Sport". Durham University Weblines (via Internet Wayback Machine). September 2001. Archived from the original on 25 December 2002. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
World short-course champions in women's 4x200 m freestyle relay | |
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- 1984 births
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers for Great Britain
- Living people
- British female freestyle swimmers
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Sportspeople from Northallerton
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- Alumni of Collingwood College, Durham
- 21st-century British sportswomen
- English female freestyle swimmers
- 21st-century English sportswomen
- 20th-century English sportswomen