- Nicola Jackson
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Nicola Jackson Personal information Full name Nicola Jackson Nationality British Born 19 February 1984 Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] Weight 52 kilograms (110 lb) Sport Sport Swimming Stroke(s) Freestyle Medal recordWomen's swimming Competitor for 
Great BritainWorld Championships (LC) Gold 2001 Fukuoka 4×200 m freestyle World Championships (SC) Gold 2000 Athens 4×200 m freestyle Silver 1999 Hong Kong 4×200 m freestyle Bronze 2000 Athens 50 m butterfly European Championships (SC) Bronze 1999 Lisboa 50 m butterfly Bronze 1999 Lisboa 4×50 m freestyle Bronze 1999 Lisboa 4×50 m medley Nicola Jackson (born 19 February 1984)[2] is a British swimmer, who won two world championships in relay events.
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.[3] Jackson swam in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, as part of Britain's 4×200 freestyle relay team, which finished in sixth place.[1] In 2001, she won her only international medal in a long course championship, in the 4×200 metre relay at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships.[4]
She is the sister of British swimmer Joanne Jackson.
References
- ^ a b "Nicola Jackson Biography and Olympic Results". http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ja/nicola-jackson-1.html. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
- ^ "British Olympic Association". http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=1765. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
- ^ "The Road to Athens- Nicola Jackson". http://www.uksport.gov.uk/news/157/. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
- ^ "History of FINA - Women's Events". http://www.fina.org/pdf/histoFina/HistoFINA_IV_b.pdf. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
World Long Course Champions in Women's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay 1986: East Germany (Stellmach, Strauß, Bergnecht, Friedrich) • 1991: Germany (Kielgass, Stellmach, Hase, Ortwig) • 1994: China (Le, Aihua, Guanbin, Lü) • 1998: Germany (Van Almsick, Hase, Szalai, Kielgass) • 2001: Great Britain (Jackson, Belton, Legg, Pickering) • 2003: United States (Benko, Komisarz, Jeffrey, Munz) • 2005: United States (Coughlin, Hoff, Myers, Sandeno) • 2007: United States (Coughlin, Vollmer, Nymeyer, Hoff) • 2009: China (Yang, Zhu, Liu, Pang) • 2011: United States (Franklin, Knutson, Hoff, Schmitt)
World Short Course Champions in Women's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay 1993: China (Shan, Zhou, Le, Lü) · 1995: Canada (Limpert, Shakespeare, Evanetz, Malar) · 1997: China (Luna, Nian, Chen, Shan) · 1999: Sweden (Lillhage, Jöhncke, Sjöberg, Svahnström) · 2000: Great Britain (Huddart, Jackson, Legg, Pickering) · 2002: China (Xu, Zhu, Tang, Yang) · 2004: United States (Vollmer, Komisarz, Benko, Sandeno) · 2006: Australia (Barratt, Schipper, Reese, Lenton) · 2008: Netherlands (Dekker, Heemskerk, Veldhuis, Kromowidjojo) · 2010: China (Chen, Tang, Liu, Zhu)
Categories:- 1984 births
- British swimmers
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers of Great Britain
- Living people
- Female freestyle swimmers
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
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