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Rebecca Cooke (born 24 June 1983) is a retired British
swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...
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Swimming career

Cooke represented Great Britain in the Olympics,
World Aquatics Championships The World Aquatics Championships, formerly the FINA World Championships, are the World Championships for six aquatic disciplines: swimming, diving, high diving, open water swimming, artistic swimming, and water polo. The championships are st ...
(known as the FINA World Championships until 2022),
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, and England in the
Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 1930 ...
. She competed internationally in
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and
individual medley Medley swimming is a combination of four different swimming strokes ( freestyle (usually front crawl), backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) into one race. This race is either swum by one swimmer as individual medley (IM) or by four swimmers as ...
swimming events. She has won medals at every major international championships with the exception of the Olympic Games. She won the ASA National Championship 800 metres freestyle title for six consecutive years from 2000 until 2005. She retired from international competition in April 2008 after failing to make the British team for the 2008 Games in Beijing.


See also

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List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women) This is the complete list of women's World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming from 1973 to 2024. Medalists Bold numbers in brackets denotes record number of victories in corresponding disciplines. 50 metre freestyle *Medals: 100 ...
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List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (women) This is a list of women's Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (sport), swimming from 1930 to 2022. Current program 50 metre freestyle 100 metre freestyle 200 metre freestyle 400 metre freestyle 800 metre freestyle 50 metre backs ...


References

1983 births Living people Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Commonwealth Games gold medallists in swimming Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Commonwealth Games silver medallists in swimming English female freestyle swimmers British female freestyle swimmers European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) Olympic swimmers for Great Britain Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Summer World University Games medalists in swimming FISU World University Games gold medalists for Great Britain FISU World University Games silver medalists for Great Britain FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Great Britain Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2005 Summer Universiade Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games English female medley swimmers British female medley swimmers 21st-century English sportswomen 20th-century English sportswomen {{UK-swimming-bio-stub