Siobhan-Marie O'Connor
Siobhan-Marie O'Connor (born 29 November 1995) is a former English competitive swimmer who has represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games, the FINA World Aquatics Championships and the LEN European Aquatics Championships, and England at the Commonwealth Games. A specialist in the 200 metres individual medley, she is the 2014 Commonwealth Games champion in the event, and has won silver medals in the same event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, the 2015 World Aquatics Championships, 2016 European Aquatics Championships, the 2014 World Short-Course Championships and the 2013 and 2015 European Short Course Championships – on each occasion behind World and Olympic champion Katinka Hosszú. With six Commonwealth Games medals in total from 2014, O'Connor was England's most decorated athlete at those Games.
In addition, O'Connor swam the butterfly leg for Great Britain in the non-Olympic 4 x 100-metre mixed medley relay that won gold at the 2015 FINA World Aquatics Championships in a world record time for the event. she has also won gold medals in 2016 at the European Championships in the same event, and in the women's 4 x 100 metres medley relay.
O'Connor first competed for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 100m breaststroke event.[3] She holds the British records for 200 metres individual medley, the 100 breaststroke and the 4 x 100-metre mixed medley relay.
O'Connor announced her retirement from competitive swimming on 16 June 2021, following a long battle with ulcerative colitis,[4]
Personal life[]
O'Connor attended St. Gregory's Catholic College in Bath. She missed her prom to compete in the qualifying meet for the 2012 London Olympics.[5] In 2015, Siobhan was at a Team Bath warm weather training camp at Northern Arizona University at the same time four students were shot by a freshman following an altercation outside a fraternity house, leaving one dead and three wounded. Although asleep in another part of the campus at the time of the shooting, the incident deeply affected her.[6]
O'Connor has ulcerative colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease.[7]
See also[]
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)
- List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (women)
References[]
- ^ a b "Siobhan-Marie O'Connor". Athletes' profiles. Gold Coast 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "Siobhan-Marie O'Connor". British Swimming. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
- ^ "Siobhan-Marie O'Connor". teamgb.com. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
- ^ Siobhan-Marie O'Connor retires aged 25 because of 'debilitating' struggles, from BBC Sport.
- ^ "Bath schoolgirl who missed the prom for a golden date at Olympics". 28 June 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ^ "How a tragic shooting made Siobhan-Marie O'Connor appreciate life ahead of the Rio Olympics". Retrieved 21 August 2016.
- ^ "Siobhan-Marie O'Connor: Life in the ISL 'Budapest bio-bubble' and coping with 'invisible illness'". BBC Sport. 29 October 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
- 1995 births
- Living people
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- English female swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of Great Britain
- Sportspeople from Bath, Somerset
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- World record setters in swimming
- Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in swimming
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming