Adam Whitehead
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| Full name | Adam James Whitehead | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 28 March 1980 Coventry, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Adam James Whitehead (born 28 March 1980) is a male former breaststroke swimmer from Coventry, England.
Swimming career[]
Whitehead competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There he was eliminated in the qualifying heats of the men's 100 m and 200 m breaststroke.
He represented England and won a bronze medal in the 200 metres breaststroke event, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[1][2] Four years later he won a gold medal and silver medal in the breaststroke events at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.[3]
At the ASA National British Championships he won the 50 metres breaststroke[4] and the 100 metres breaststroke in 1999. However, in his strongest event, the 200 metres breaststroke, he won the title three times (1998, 1999 and 2000).[5][6][7]
Personal life[]
After this, he worked with the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust as an athlete mentor, using the experiences and skills he gained as an elite sports performer to inspire and support young people, and later in a management role.[8]
He attended Henley College Coventry[9]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "1998 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "England team in 1998". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ ""For the Record." Times, 9 July 1999, p. 49". Times Digital Archive.
- ^ ""For the Record." Times, 13 July 1998, p. 39". Times Digital Archive.
- ^ ""For the Record." Times, 12 July 1999, p. 43". Times Digital Archive.
- ^ ""For the record." Times, 31 July 2000, p. ^". Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "Blog: Education will not solve youth inactivity alone. It's all a matter of mindset". Dame Kelly Holmes Trust. 30 September 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
- ^ https://www.independent.co.uk/student/into-university/az-uni-colleges/henley-college-coventry-458945.html
External links[]
- "Adam Whitehead at British Swimming". Archived from the original on 20 July 2008. Retrieved 26 June 2017.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
- Adam James Whitehead at the International Olympic Committee
- Adam Whitehead at the Commonwealth Games Federation
- Adam Whitehead at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- 1980 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Coventry
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers of Great Britain
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Swimmers at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- English breaststroke swimmers
- English male swimmers
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- Universiade medalists in swimming
- Alumni of Henley College Coventry
- Universiade bronze medalists for Great Britain
- Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade