The British Olympic Association (BOA) selected further swimmers as members of Team GB for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
The athletes are:
Athlete Event Club
Mark Foster 50m Freestyle Bath University
Ross Davenport 200m Freestyle Loughborough University
Robert Renwick 200m Freestyle City of Aberdeen
David Carry 400m Freestyle Aberdeen Dolphins
Dean Milwain 400m Freestyle Loughborough University
David Davies 1,500m Freestyle City of Cardiff
Richard Charlesworth 1,500m Freestyle Hatfield
Gregor Tait 100m Backstroke City of Edinburgh
Liam Tancock 100m Backstroke Loughborough University
Gregor Tait 200m Backstroke City of Edinburgh
James Goddard 200m Backstroke Loughborough University
Chris Cook 100m Breaststroke City of Newcastle
Kristopher Gilchrist 100m Breaststroke City of Edinburgh
Kristopher Gilchrist 200m Breaststroke City of Edinburgh
James Kirton 200m Breaststroke City of Sheffield
Michael Rock 100m Butterfly Stockport Metro
Todd Cooper 100m Butterfly Stirling Swimming
Michael Rock 200m Butterfly Stockport Metro
James Goddard 200m Individual Medley Loughborough University
Liam Tancock 200m Individual Medley Loughborough University
Thomas Haffield 400m Individual Medley City of Cardiff
Euan Dale 400m Individual Medley Loughborough University
Ross Davenport 4x200m Freestyle Relay Loughborough University
Robert Renwick 4x200m Freestyle Relay City of Aberdeen
David Carry 4x200m Freestyle Relay Aberdeen Dolphins
Andrew Hunter 4x200m Freestyle Relay Stirling Swimming
Ben Hockin 4x200m Freestyle Relay Swansea Performance
Fran Halsall 50m Freestyle City of Liverpool
Caitlin McClatchey 100m Freestyle Loughborough University
Fran Halsall 100m Freestyle City of Liverpool
Caitlin McClatchey 200m Freestyle Loughborough University
Rebecca Adlington 200m Freestyle Nov Centurion
Rebecca Adlington 400m Freestyle Nova Centurion
Joanne Jackson 400m Freestyle Derwentside
Rebecca Adlington 800m Freestyle Nova Centurion
Cassie Patten 800m Freestyle Stockport Metro
Gemma Spofforth 100m Backstroke Portsmouth Northsea
Elizabeth Simmonds 100m Backstroke Lincoln Vulcans
Gemma Spofforth 200m Backstroke Portsmouth Northsea
Elizabeth Simmonds 200m Backstroke Lincoln Vulcans
Kate Haywood 100m Breaststroke Loughborough University
Kirsty Balfour 100m Breaststroke City of Edinburgh
Kirsty Balfour 200m Breaststroke City of Edinburgh
Fran Halsall 100m Butterfly City of Liverpool
Jemma Lowe 100m Butterfly Borough of Stockton
Ellen Gandy 200m Butterfly Beckenham
Jemma Lowe 200m Butterfly Borough of Stockton
Hannah Miley 200m Individual Medley Garioch
Keri-Anne Payne 200m Individual Medley Stockport Metro
Hannah Miley 400m Individual Medley Garioch
Keri-Anne Payne 400m Individual Medley Stockport Metro
Caitlin McClatchey 4x100m Freestyle Relay Loughborough University
Francesca Halsall 4x100m Freestyle Relay City of Liverpool
Julia Beckett 4x100m Freestyle Relay Loughborough University
Jessica Sylvester 4x100m Freestyle Relay Nova Centurion
Rebecca Adlington 4x200m Freestyle Relay Nova Centurion
Caitlin McClatchey 4x200m Freestyle Relay Loughborough University
Joanne Jackson 4x200m Freestyle Relay Derwentside
Melanie Marshall 4x200m Freestyle Relay Loughborough University
Fran Halsall 4x200m Freestyle Relay City of Liverpool
Simon Clegg, Team GB 2008 Chef de Mission, said:
“I am delighted to welcome these swimmers into Team GB for this summer’s Olympic Games. This weeks trials have showed that the team have real potential to compete against the best in the world and I wish them well in their final preparations for Beijing.”
Michael Scott, GB Swimming’s Performance Director commented:
"The team has a good mixture of youth and experience. I am very pleased for the swimmers in terms of the records that have been broken and the fast times that have been posted this week but I am especially happy for the coaches that work with the athletes on a daily basis to get those results.
This competition has been a quantum leap forward in our progression as a swimming nation. But we need to put this into perspective, many of the top swimming nations are yet to hold their trials and so we are likely to see faster times being posted on the international circuit in the coming months.
The key thing for us is to maintain the momentum we have been building going into this competition. We have made a significant step but we need to continue our good work from now until Beijing."
On qualifying for his fifth Olympic Games Mark Foster said:
"I am obviously ecstatic to have met the selection criteria and be able to go to my fifth Olympic Games. I knew roughly what times I was going to be able make here and I would be stupid not to take my place on this year's Olympic squad.
I have been swimming my fastest times in five years and I am beginning to start tweaking my programme to help me go even faster. I now have four months to get it right."
Dean Milwain added:
"I am very excited about making it onto Team GB, it is a dream come true. When I was younger and started winning regional events all my friends asked if I was going to go to the Olympics and I always hoped that I would get onto the squad so to have made it is amazing.
It still doesn't seem real that I will be going to my first Olympic Games but I think it will hit me when I see my family and friends."
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Notes to Editors
Previously selected swimmers:
Women’s 200m breaststroke
Kirsty Balfour
Men’s 1500m freestyle
David Davies
Men’s 100m backstroke
Liam Tancock
Team GB is expected to consist of approximately 300 athletes and a further 200 officials.
Team GB could be competing in up to 22 sports.
The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will take place from 8th to 24th August 2008.
The British Olympic Association (BOA) is the National Olympic Committee for Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Its role is to prepare our nation’s finest athletes for and lead them at the summer, winter and youth Olympic Games. The BOA delivers extensive elite level support services to Britain’s Olympic athletes and their National Governing Bodies throughout each Olympic cycle and in the UK is responsible for the development and protection of the Olympic Movement.
British Swimming is the National Governing Body for Swimming, Diving, Synchronised Swimming, Water Polo and Open Water in Great Britain. It is responsible internationally for the high performance representation of the sport. The members of British Swimming are the three Home Countries national governing bodies of England (Amateur Swimming Association), Scotland (Scottish Amateur Swimming Association) and Wales. (Welsh Amateur Swimming Association) British Swimming seeks to enable its athletes to achieve gold medal success at the Olympics, Paralympics, World Championships and Commonwealth Games.
For more information or interview requests for Simon Clegg please contact Miriam Wilkens in the BOA Communications Department on 07768 775762 or 020 8871 2677 ext 225.
All interview requests for the athletes should go through Dave Richards, British Swimming Media Manager, T: 01509 632 237/M: 07789 926136 or Gemma Field, British Swimming Media Assistant, T: 01509 632262/M: 07917 726431.
