Jessica Aimee Sylvester (born 9 July 1987 in
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newcastle-under-Lyme is a market town and the administrative centre of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. It is adjacent to the city of Stoke-on-Trent. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the population ...
,
Staffordshire
Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ...
) is a British
freestyle
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* Reebok Freestyle, a women's athletic shoe
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swimmer.
Sylvester represented
Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Great Britain and Northern Ireland Olympic Team, Great Britain competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United Kingdom was represented by the British Olympic Association (B ...
in the 4×100 m freestyle relay swimming event.
Jessica was raised in the small Village of Cheddleton and attended Westwood High School in Leek, before leaving to attend Nottingham University.
External links
British Olympic Association athlete profileBritish Swimming athlete profile
Alumni of the University of Nottingham
English female freestyle swimmers
British female freestyle swimmers
Olympic swimmers for Great Britain
Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Living people
1987 births
Sportspeople from Newcastle-under-Lyme
European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
Commonwealth Games silver medallists in swimming
Swimmers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
21st-century English sportswomen
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