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Nicole Livingstone Personal information Full name Nicole Dawn Livingstone Nationality 
AustraliaBorn 24 June 1971
Melbourne, VictoriaHeight 5'9" (174 cm) Weight 143 lbs (65 kg) Sport Sport Swimming Stroke(s) backstroke Medal recordWomen's swimming Competitor for AustraliaOlympic Games Bronze 1992 Barcelona 200 m backstroke Bronze 1996 Atlanta 4x200 m freestyle Silver 1996 Atlanta 4x100 m medley Commonwealth Games Gold 1990 Auckland 100 m backstroke Gold 1994 Victoria 100 m backstroke Gold 1994 Victoria 200 m backstroke Silver 1990 Auckland 200 m backstroke Silver 1994 Victoria 200 m freestyle World Championships (LC) Silver 1991 Perth 4x100 m medley World Championships (SC) Bronze 1995 Rio de Janeiro 4x200 m freestyle Pan Pacific Championships Gold 1987 Brisbane 100 m backstroke Gold 1987 Brisbane 200 m backstroke Gold 1995 Atlanta 200 m backstroke Gold 1995 Atlanta 4x100 m medley Silver 1989 Tokyo 100 m backstroke Silver 1989 Tokyo 4x100 m medley Silver 1991 Edmonton 100 m ackstroke Silver 1991 Edmonton 200 m backstroke Silver 1991 Edmonton 4x100 m medley Bronze 1989 Tokyo 200 m backstroke Nicole Dawn Livingstone OAM (born 24 June 1971) is a retired Australian Olympic swimmer and a television sports commentator and radio presenter. Livingstone competed for Australia in three summer Olympics - 1988, 1992, and 1996 - winning both individual and team medals. She retired from swimming after the 1996 Olympics (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) and joined the Australian sports network Nine Network as a host of Nine's Wide World of Sport, and a commentator for swimming. Livingstone is currently a radio presenter for Melbourne station SEN 1116 and presenter on Network Ten. She was born in Melbourne, Victoria.
Livingstone is active in promoting drug-free sports in Australia. She is involved in the Australian Olympic Committee's "Live Clean, Play Clean" anti-doping education program. She is also a board member of the Australian Sports Drug Agency (ASDA), whose mission is to combat drug use in sports.
Livingstone held the Australian record for the 200 m backstroke, with at time of 2:10.20, set on 31 July 1992 at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain for 16 years. Meagen Nay broke the Australian record twice at the 2008 Australian Olympic Trials. Notably, she is the only Australian swimmer to have competed in six successive Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.
She was awarded the Order of Australia Medal on 9 June 1997 for service to swimming as a representative at state, national and international levels.[1]
She was known for a period as Nicole Stevenson, when she was married to Australian cyclist Clayton Stevenson.
She worked for Wide World of Sports as a host of the self titled program and as a host of Sports Saturday. She was host of Any Given Sunday with Mick Molloy in 2006.
In March 2007, Livingstone was appointed the sports presenter on Nine News PM Edition. She was replaced by Tim Sheridan.
In November 2008, Livingstone resigned from the Nine Network to work for Network Ten's new sports channel One HD which commenced in 2009. Livingstone's final appearance on the Nine Network was on Nine's Wide World of Sport.
In 2011, Livingstone has been a fill in presenter on Network Ten's Sports Tonight, a panellist on Thursday Night Live, sports presenter on Melbourne's Weekend Ten Evening News and also a fill in presenter for Carrie Bickmore on The 7PM Project.
Notable races
- 1991 FINA World Championships (Perth), 4x100 medley relay, 2nd place Australia (with Linley Frame, Susie O'Neill, Karen Van Wirdum)
- 1992, 200 m backstroke, set world short course record, Melbourne.
- 1992 Summer Olympics, 200 m backstroke, Bronze medal.
- 1996 Summer Olympics, 4 x 200 m freestyle relay, Bronze medal (with Julia Greville, Emma Johnson, Susan O'Neill)
- 1996 Summer Olympics, 4 x 100 m medley relay, Silver medal (with Samantha Riley, Susan O'Neill, Sarah Ryan)
References
- ^ "Nicole Stevenson". Australian Honours Database. http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=887506&search_type=simple&showInd=true. Retrieved 2007-01-03.
External links
- Australian Institute of Sports: Swimming
- Australian Sports Drug Agency: [1]
- Nicole Livingstone at the Internet Movie Database
Commonwealth Champions in Women's 100 m Backstroke 1930 – 1934: 100 yards • 1938 – 1966: 110 yards • 1970 – 2010: 100 metres1930: Joyce Cooper (ENG) • 1934: Phyllis Harding (ENG) • 1938: Pat Norton (AUS) • 1950: Judy-Joy Davies (AUS) • 1954: Joan Harrison (SAF) • 1958: Judy Grinham (ENG) • 1962: Linda Ludgrove (ENG) • 1966: Linda Ludgrove (ENG) • 1970: Lynne Watson (AUS) • 1974: Wendy Cook (CAN) • 1978: Debra Forster (AUS) • 1982: Lisa Forrest (AUS) • 1986: Sylvia Hume (NZL) • 1990: Nicole Livingstone (AUS) • 1994: Nicole Stevenson (AUS) • 1998: Giaan Rooney (AUS) • 2002: Sarah Price (ENG) • 2006: Sophie Edington (AUS) • 2010: Emily Seebohm (AUS)
Commonwealth Champions in Women's 200 m Backstroke 1962 – 1966: 220 yards • 1970 – 2010: 200 metres1962: Linda Ludgrove (ENG) • 1966: Linda Ludgrove (ENG) • 1970: Lynne Watson (AUS) • 1974: Wendy Cook (CAN) • 1978: Cheryl Gibson (CAN) • 1982: Lisa Forrest (AUS) • 1986: Georgina Parkes (AUS) • 1990: Anna Simcic (NZL) • 1994: Nicole Stevenson (AUS) • 1998: Katy Sexton (ENG) • 2002: Sarah Price (ENG) • 2006: Jo Fargus (AUS) • 2010: Meagen Nay (AUS)
Commonwealth Champions in Women's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay 1986: Australia (Burke, Pearson, Thorpe, Baumer) • 1990: Australia (Lewis, Elford, McMahon, McDonald) • 1994: Australia (Windsor, Lewis, Livingstone, O'Neill) • 1998: Australia (Windsor, Greville, Munz, O'Neill) • 2002: England (Legg, Lee, Fargus, Pickering) • 2006: Australia (Lenton, Barratt, Stubbins, Mackenzie) • 2010: Australia (Palmer, Evans, Barratt, Nay)
Pan Pacific Champions in Women's 100 m Backstroke 1985: Betsy Mitchell (USA) • 1987: Nicole Livingstone (AUS) • 1989: Lea Loveless (USA) • 1991: Janie Wagstaff (USA) • 1993: Lea Loveless (USA) • 1995: Noriko Inada (JPN) • 1997: Mai Nakamura (JPN) • 1999: Dyana Calub (AUS) & Mai Nakamura (JPN) • 2002: Natalie Coughlin (USA) • 2006: Hanae Ito (JPN) • 2010: Emily Seebohm (AUS)
Pan Pacific Champions in Women's 200 m Backstroke 1985: Andrea Hayes (USA) • 1987: Nicole Livingstone (AUS) • 1989: Dede Trimble (USA) • 1991: Anna Simcic (NZL) • 1993: Barbara Bedford (USA) • 1995: Nicole Livingstone (AUS) • 1997: Mai Nakamura (JPN) • 1999: Tomoko Hagiwara (JPN) • 2002: Margaret Hoelzer (USA) • 2006: Reiko Nakamura (JPN) • 2010: Elizabeth Beisel (USA)
Pan Pacific Champions in Women's 4×100 m Medley Relay 1985: CAN • 1987: USA (Linehan, Johnson, Myers, Torres) • 1989: USA (Loveless, McFarlane, Johnson, Fetter) • 1991: USA (Wagstaff, King, Ahmann-Leighton, Haislett) • 1993: USA (Loveless, Nall, Thompson, Martino) • 1995: AUS (Stevenson, Riley, O'Neill, Ryan) • 1997: USA (Maurer, Kowal, Fox, Thompson) • 1999: USA (Bedford, Quann, Thompson, Kolbisen) • 2002: AUS (Calub, Jones, Thomas, Henry) • 2006: USA (Coughlin, Hardy, Komisarz, Weir) • 2010: USA (Coughlin, Soni, Vollmer, Hardy)
Categories:- 1971 births
- Living people
- Olympic swimmers of Australia
- Australian female swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Swimming commentators
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Sportswomen from Melbourne
- Olympic silver medalists for Australia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- Female backstroke swimmers
- Female freestyle swimmers
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