- Nancy Sweetnam
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Medal record Competitor for 
CanadaWomen's Swimming World Championships (SC) Silver 1995 Rio de Janeiro 400m Medley Summer Universiade Gold 1993 Buffalo 400m Medley Silver 1993 Buffalo 200m Medley Nancy Sweetnam (born August 14, 1973 in Lindsay, Ontario) is a former international medley swimmer from Canada, who competed at two consequentive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain. There she finished in seventh place in the 200m Individual Medley, and in 13th in the 400m Individual Medley.
Four years later in Atlanta, Georgia she ended up in eleventh position in the 400m Individual Medley, after winning the silver medal in the same event at the 1995 FINA Short Course World Championships in Rio de Janeiro.
She is a cousin of Canadian pop-rock singer/songwriter Skye Sweetnam.
References
Commonwealth Champions in Women's 200 m Individual Medley 1970: Denise Langford (AUS) • 1974: Leslie Cliff (CAN) • 1978: Sharron Davies (ENG) • 1982: Lisa Curry-Kenny (AUS) • 1986: Suzie Landells (AUS) • 1990: Nancy Sweetnam (CAN) • 1994: Elli Overton (AUS) • 1998: Marianne Limpert (CAN) • 2002: Kirsty Coventry (ZIM) • 2006: Stephanie Rice (AUS) • 2010: Alicia Coutts (AUS)
Summer Universiade Champions in Women's 400 m Individual Medley 1979: Janet Buchan (USA) • 1981: Mayumi Yokoyama (USA) • 1983: Irina Gerasimova (URS) • 1985: Channon Hermstad (USA) • 1987: Noemi Lung (ROM) • 1991: Lin Li (CHN) • 1993: Nancy Sweetnam (CAN) • 1995 – 1997: Fumie Kurotori (JPN) • 1999: Hana Černá (CZE) • 2001: Federica Biscia (ITA) and Liang Shuang (CHN) • 2003: Yana Klochkova (UKR) • 2005: Qi Hui (CHN) • 2007: Yana Klochkova (UKR) • 2009: Ava Ohlgren (USA) • 2011: Maya Dirado (USA)
Categories:- 1973 births
- Olympic swimmers of Canada
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Medley swimmers
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Ontario
- Canadian sportswomen
- Canadian swimmers
- Canadian swimming biography stubs
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