Laura Nicholls (swimmer)
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Full name | Laura Nicholls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Kitchener, Ontario | September 25, 1978||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Region of Waterloo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Laura Nicholls (born September 25, 1978) is a Canadian former competition swimmer who won ten international medals in freestyle events, including the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, Commonwealth Games and Pan American Games. Nicholls represented Canada at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia. There she finished in 29th position in the 50-metre freestyle. Four years later in Sydney, Australia, she reached the final with the Canadian relay teams, finishing seventh in the 4x100-metre freestyle, and sixth in the 4x100-metre medley. Laura Nicholls is currently a coach with the Guelph Marlins Aquatic Club in Guelph.
References[]
- ^ "BBC Sport Commonwealth Games 2002 Statistics". BBC News. Retrieved 2007-08-29.
External links[]
- Canadian Olympic Committee
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Laura Nicholls". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
Categories:
- 1978 births
- Living people
- Canadian female freestyle swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of Canada
- Sportspeople from Kitchener, Ontario
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers from Ontario
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Canada
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada
- Swimmers at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Pan American Games medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games
- Canadian swimming biography stubs