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 and 2018 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]
O'Connor became a swimming coach and trained Daisy Ridley for her role in the 2024 movie Young Woman and the Sea.[5]
Personal life
editO'Connor attended St. Gregory's Catholic College in Bath. She missed her prom to compete in the qualifying meet for the 2012 London Olympics.[6] 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. [7]
O'Connor has ulcerative colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease.[8]
See also
edit- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)
- List of European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)
- List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (women)
- List of European Short Course Swimming Championships medalists (women)
References
edit- ^ "Siobhan-Marie O'Connor". British Swimming. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
- ^ a b "Siobhan-Marie O'Connor". Athletes' profiles. Gold Coast 2018. Archived from the original on 10 April 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "Siobhan-Marie O'Connor". teamgb.com. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
- ^ Siobhan-Marie O'Connor retires aged 25 because of 'debilitating' struggles Archived 16 June 2021 at the Wayback Machine, from BBC Sport.
- ^ Molski •, Max (11 June 2024). "Daisy Ridley dives into how an Olympic medalist helped her train for 'Young Woman and the Sea'". NBC Los Angeles. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
- ^ "Bath schoolgirl who missed the prom for a golden date at Olympics". 28 June 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2016.[dead link]
- ^ "How a tragic shooting made Siobhan-Marie O'Connor appreciate life ahead of the Rio Olympics". 6 January 2016. Archived from the original on 12 May 2020. 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. Archived from the original on 31 October 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
External links
edit- Siobhan O'Connor at World Aquatics
- Siobhan-Marie O'Connor at the International Swimming League (archived)
- Siobhan-Marie O'Connor at British Swimming (archived)
- Siobhan-Marie O'Connor at Team GB
- Siobhan-Marie O'Connor at Olympedia
- Siobhan-Marie O'Connor at Team England
- Siobhan Marie O'Connor at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (archived)
