Rebecca Adlington

Rebecca Adlington
OBE
Adlington in the Our Greatest Team Parade
Personal information
Full nameRebecca Adlington
National team Great Britain
Born (1989-02-17) 17 February 1989
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England
Height5 ft 10 in (179 cm)[1]
Weight11 st 0 lb; 154 lb (70 kg)[1]
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
ClubNova Centurion
CoachBill Furniss
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  Great Britain
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 2 0 2
World Championships (LC) 1 1 2
World Championships (SC) 1 1 0
European Championships (LC) 1 1 1
Commonwealth Games 2 0 2
Total 7 3 7
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing 400 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing 800 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London 400 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London 800 m freestyle
World Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place 2011 Shanghai 800 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2011 Shanghai 400 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Rome 400 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Rome 4×200 m freestyle
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place 2008 Manchester 800 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2008 Manchester 4×200 m freestyle
European Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place 2010 Budapest 400 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2006 Budapest 800 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Budapest 4×200 m freestyle
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2010 Delhi 400 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2010 Delhi 800 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Delhi 200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Delhi 4×200 m freestyle

Rebecca Adlington (born 17 February 1989) is an English former competitive swimmer who specialised in freestyle events. She won two gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics, in the 400-metre freestyle and 800-metre freestyle, breaking the 19-year-old world record of Janet Evans in the 800-metre final. Adlington was Britain's first Olympic swimming champion since 1988, and the first British swimmer to win two Olympic gold medals since 1908.

After winning her first World Championship gold over 800 metres in 2011, along with silver in the 400 metres at the same meet, she won bronze medals in both the women's 400-metre and 800-metre freestyle events in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Adlington has won gold medals at the Olympic Games, World Championships, European Championships and the Commonwealth Games. On 5 February 2013, she retired from competitive swimming at the age of 23. Since retiring as a competitor, Adlington has worked for the BBC as a pundit at the Olympic Games and World Aquatics Championships, as well as making various other media appearances.

Early life and education

Rebecca Adlington was born on 17 February 1989 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, where she attended The Brunts School.[2][3] In 2009, she was one of 94 athletes to benefit from the Advanced Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence award (AASE), intended to recognise potential elite athletes with the opportunity for integrated academic achievement whilst continuing with training for competition.[4]

Adlington started swimming aged four, and aged nine, began swimming competitively with Sherwood Colliery Swimming Club,[5] and was selected for the Nottinghamshire County Elite Squad (Nova Centurion Swimming Club).[6] She swam in local swimming leagues for Nottingham Leander Swimming Club, having taken part in the National Speedo 'B' Final in May 2010. Adlington's great-uncle was Terry Adlington, former goalkeeper with Derby County.[7] She is a keen Derby supporter.[8]

Competitive career

Adlington won the gold medal in the 800 m freestyle at the 2004 European Junior Championships.[9] At the 2006 European Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Adlington won silver in the 800m freestyle. She ended the race more than eight seconds behind France's Laure Manaudou.[10] At the 2007 National Championships, she set a lifetime best time on her way to winning the 800 m freestyle.[11] At the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne, she finished tenth in the 800 m freestyle.[9]

Adlington broke her 400 m freestyle commonwealth record at the 2008 National championships, securing victory with a time of 4:02.80.[12] She represented Great Britain in the 2008 Summer Olympics, competing in the 400-metre freestyle and 800-metre freestyle events. She was also scheduled to swim in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay but was rested in the heat and the team failed to qualify for the final. In the heats of the 400-metre freestyle, she broke the Commonwealth record with a time of 4:02.24.[13] On 11 August 2008, she won an Olympic gold medal in the same event, with a time of 4:03.22, overtaking Katie Hoff of the United States in the last 20 metres.[14] She was the first woman to win swimming gold for Great Britain since Anita Lonsbrough in 1960.[15]

Adlington set a new British, Commonwealth, European and Olympic record of 8:18.06 in the preliminary heats of the women's 800-metre freestyle on 14 August 2008.[16] She went on to win the 800-metre freestyle final on 16 August 2008 in a world record time of 8:14.10, her second gold medal of the competition. She finished six seconds ahead of Italy's silver medallist Alessia Filippi, and 2.12 seconds ahead of the former world record which had been set by Janet Evans in the year Adlington was born. At the time, this was swimming's longest standing world record.[17]She was the first British swimmer to win more than one gold medal at a single Olympic Games since Henry Taylor won three in 1908.[18]

In 2009, Adlington said she had felt the extra expectation that had been placed on her being a double Olympic champion.[19] At the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome, she swam a personal best time of 4:00.79 to win bronze in the 400-metre freestyle. Adlington chose to compete in the Speedo LZR swimsuit in which she had won her two Olympic gold medals. The seven other finalists all wore polyurethane costumes which the sports' governing body FINA banned the following year.[20] She added a second bronze in the 4×200-metre freestyle. The quartet of Adlington, Jazz Carlin, Joanne Jackson and Caitlin McClatchey set a European record time of 7:45.51.[21] She also finished fourth in the 800-metre freestyle.[22]

Adlington won the 400-metre freestyle at the 2010 European Aquatics Championships in Budapest, after finishing 0.85 seconds clear of second-placed Danish swimmer Lotte Friis.[23] She had earlier finished seventh in the 800-metre freestyle.[24] She also won bronze as part of the 4×200-metre freestyle relay team with Carlin, Jackson and Hannah Miley.[25]

At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, she won a bronze medal in the 200-metre freestyle, the first time she had raced the distance in an international competition.[26] She was also part of the English record setting 4×200-metre freestyle relay team that also won bronze.[27] In the 800-metre freestyle, Adlington led from start to finish to win her first Commonwealth Games gold medal. Her winning time was 0.05 seconds shy of the Commonwealth Games record, and she had suffered a stomach upset the night before.[28][29] In the 400-metre freestyle, Adlington won her second gold medal of the Games and broke Sarah Hardcastle's Commonwealth Games record by two seconds which had been set in 1986.[30]

Adlington finished first in the 400-metre freestyle at the 2011 British National Championships with a time of 4:02.84. This made her the third fastest woman in history over the distance in a textile swimsuit behind Federica Pellegrini and Manaudou.[31] She was also victorious in the 800 m freestyle.[32] At the 2011 World Aquatics Championships in Shanghai, Adlington won the 800-metre freestyle gold medal. With 100 m of the race remaining, Adlington trailed Friis by 0.65 seconds, but she overtook the Dane to clinch victory by 0.69 seconds.[33] Earlier in the competition, she claimed silver in the 400-metre freestyle behind Pellegrini.[34]

Adlington qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by winning the 400 m freestyle at the national trials.[35] At the Games, Adlington won bronze in the 400-metre freestyle in a time of 4:03.01, as she finished behind Camille Muffat of France and Allison Schmitt of the USA.[36] She then secured a further bronze in the women's 800-metre freestyle, recording a time of 8:20.32 in a race won by USA's 15-year-old Katie Ledecky. Adlington had trailed her by one second at the halfway mark, but the American extended her advantage with Adlington ending the race more than five seconds behind the gold medallist.[37] After the Games, Adlington said that she would no longer undertake the 800-metre race, and would not compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[38]

On 5 February 2013, Adlington announced her retirement from swimming aged 23.[39] She stated that she had "achived everything [she] wanted too" and that she wished to "finish on a high".[40]

Personal bests and records held

Long course (50 m)
Event Time


Date Meet Location Ref
200 m freestyle 1:56.66 5 April 2008 British Championships Sheffield, United Kingdom
400 m freestyle 4:00.79 26 July 2009 2009 World Championships Rome, Italy
800 m freestyle 8:14.10 NR 16 August 2008 Olympic Games Beijing, China
400 m individual medley 4:56.34 11 June 2006 Mare Nostrum Barcelona, Spain
Short course (25 m)
Event Time


Date Meet Location Ref
200 m freestyle 1:59.25 3 April 2006 Nottinghamshire Championships Nottingham, United Kingdom
400 m freestyle 3:59.04 18 December 2009 Duel in the Pool Manchester, United Kingdom
800 m freestyle 8:08.25 10 April 2008 World SC Championships Manchester, United Kingdom
Legend: WR – World record; ER – European record; CR – Commonwealth record; NR – British record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; so – swim-off; tt – time trial

Recognition

crowded own square
Adlington on an open-top bus outside of Mansfield Town Hall after parading around Mansfield town centre streets in 2008
Modern slab sided building in sun and shade against a grey sky
Rebecca Adlington Swimming Centre in November 2017
Rebecca Adlington and parents stand on a canopied, raised platform outside of the refurbished swimming pool looking on as the then-mayor of Mansfield at a microphone addresses spectators
Official opening in 2010 with Adlington and parents looking on as Tony Egginton, then-mayor of Mansfield, addresses spectators

Following the conclusion of the 2008 Summer Olympics, Adlington was welcomed home to Mansfield by thousands of people who lined the streets as she passed by in an open top bus, before appearing at a ceremony at the Old Town Hall.[41] At Mansfield's Civic Centre headquarters, Adlington was presented with a pair of gold-coloured Jimmy Choo shoes by Tony Egginton, then the mayor.[42]

In November 2008, Adlington was named as the Sports Journalists' Association's Sportswoman of the Year, receiving her trophy at a ceremony in London from Princess Anne, herself a former winner of the award. On 14 December 2008,[43] she was voted third in the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.[44] She also won the Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year award,[45] and was named European Swimmer of the Year by Swimming World Magazine.[46]

Adlington was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours list,[47][48] which she received from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in June 2009.[49] In December 2009, she received an honorary Master of Arts degree from the University of Nottingham in recognition of her outstanding contribution to British sport.[50]

The Sherwood Swimming Baths in Adlington's hometown of Mansfield, where she began swimming as a child, was renamed the Rebecca Adlington Swimming Centre when it reopened after refurbishment in January 2010.[51] The Yates Bar in Mansfield was briefly renamed the Adlington Arms in her honour.[52]

The 2012 Olympic torch relay passed by the Rebecca Adlington Swimming Centre.[53] In 2013, after her retirement from competition, Adlington was named as the inaugural inductee into Nottinghamshire County Council's Roll of Honour.[54]

One of the Class 395 high-speed trains operated by Southeastern, used to provide a 140-mph London-to-Kent link and the Javelin shuttle service for visitors to the 2012 Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, was named after Adlington.[55] Tram 231 on the Nottingham Tram system was named after Adlington in 2016.[56][57]

Television

Adlington was a guest panellist on the ITV chat show Loose Women on 25 March,[58] 17 April and 22 May 2014. She was a contestant in Series 3 of The Jump, but withdrew on 7 February 2016 having dislocated her shoulder during training.[59]

Adlington first worked for the BBC as a swimming pundit at the 2014 Commonwealth Games.[60] She repeated this role at the 2016 Summer Olympics,[61] the 2017 World Aquatics Championships, the 2018 Commonwealth Games, the 2020 Summer Olympics, the 2022 Commonwealth Games and the 2024 Summer Olympics.[62][63][64][65]

Adlington participated in the thirteenth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, which began airing on 17 November 2013.[66] She finished in sixth place, being voted out by the public on 6 December 2013.[67]

Adlington has also appeared on: All Star Family Fortunes (18 September 2010),[68] A League of Their Own (2 November 2012),[69] I Love My Country (14 September 2013),[70] Celebrity Come Dine with Me (16 December 2013),[71] Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (19 December 2013),[72] The Chase: Celebrity Special (28 December 2013),[73] A Question of Sport: Super Saturday (12 July 2014),[74] 8 Out of 10 Cats (13 October 2014),[75] Desert Island Discs (14 June 2015)[76] and Celebrity MasterChef (16 August 2017).[77]

Commercial coaching and leisure outlets

Together with former sports personalities Steve Parry and Adrian Turner, Adlington is part of Total Swimming Group, a commercial group dedicated to providing coaching and leisure outlets. JD Sports bought-in during 2022, acquiring a 60% stake.[78]

Personal life

In 2005, Adlington's sister was affected by encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain. Her sister recovered over time, but its impact inspired Adlington to say in 2012: "It made me more determined. It makes me train harder".[79] Adlington became an Ambassador of the Encephalitis Society in 2009, to help raise awareness of the illness.[80]

In 2009, comedian Frankie Boyle was censured by the BBC Trust's Editorial Standards Committee for breaching guidelines by using "humiliating and offensive" remarks with "unnecessary innuendo" during a 2008 edition of Mock The Week broadcast on BBC 2, when he jibed at Adlington's appearance.[81][82][83] Adlington's agent said that the BBC's rebuke was insufficient.[84]

In 2014, Adlington married former swimmer Harry Needs.[85] The couple had a daughter together, born in 2015.[86] In March 2016, Adlington announced her separation from Needs.[87] On 4 March 2021, Adlington and her partner, Andy, announced the birth of their son.[88] She announced on 5 September 2021 that the couple had married.[89] In August 2022, she suffered a miscarriage and underwent emergency surgery.[90] In October 2023, Adlington announced on social media that she had a miscarriage at the time of her 20 week scan.[91] In 2025, she revealed she had been diagnosed with Coeliac disease.[92] In March 2026, Adlington announced the birth of her third child.[93]

See also

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