Gavin Meadows
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Full name | Gavin Meadows | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1977-09-08) 8 September 1977 (age 46) Bradford, West Yorkshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | City of Leeds Swim Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gavin Meadows (born 8 September 1977 in Bradford, West Yorkshire) is a former international freestyle swimmer for England and Great Britain.
Swimming career
Meadows competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics for Great Britain. A member of the City of Leeds Swim Club he is best known for winning the 1997 European title in the men's 4×200 m freestyle relay, alongside Paul Palmer, Andrew Clayton and James Salter.[1]
He represented England in six events and won four medals, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[2][3] Three of the medals came in the relay events and he also won an individual bronze in the 100 metres freestyle.[4]
He is a three times winner of the ASA National Championship 100 metres freestyle title (1996, 1997, 1999) and won the 200 metres freestyle in 1996.[5][6][7][8]
See also
- List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men)
References
- ^ "Profile". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ^ "1998 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "England team in 1998". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ ""For the Record." Times, 15 July 1996, p. 38". Times Digital Archive.
- ^ ""For the Record." Times, 21 July 1997, p. 40". Times Digital Archive.
- ^ ""For the Record." Times, 10 July 1999, p. 36". Times Digital Archive.
- ^ ""For the Record." Times, 12 July 1996, p. 37". Times Digital Archive.
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- 1926: Germany (Heitmann, Rademacher, Berges, Heinrich)
- 1927: Germany (Heitmann, Rademacher, Berges, Heinrich)
- 1931: Hungary (Wanié, Szabados, Székely, Bárány)
- 1934: Hungary (Gróf, Maróthy, Csik, Lengyel)
- 1938: Germany (Birr, Heimlich, Freese, Plath)
- 1947: Sweden (Olsson, Lundén, Östrand, Johansson)
- 1950: Sweden (Sjunnerholm, Östrand, Johansson, Larsson)
- 1954: Hungary (Till, Dömötör, Kádas, Nyéki)
- 1958: Soviet Union (Nikolayev, Struzhanov, Luzhkovsky, Nikitin)
- 1962: Sweden (Rosendahl, Lindberg, Svensson, Bengtsson)
- 1966: Soviet Union (Ilyichov, Belits-Geiman, Pletnev, Novikov)
- 1970: West Germany (Lampe, Von Schilling, Meeuw, Fassnacht)
- 1974: West Germany (Steinbach, Lampe, Meeuw, Nocke)
- 1977: Soviet Union (Raskatov, Rusin, Koplyakov, Krylov)
- 1981: Soviet Union (Shemetov, Salnikov, Chayev, Koplyakov)
- 1983: West Germany (Fahrner, Schowtka, Schmidt, Gross)
- 1985: West Germany (Schowtka, Gross, Schadt, Fahrner)
- 1987: West Germany (Sitt, Henkel, Fahrner, Gross)
- 1989: Italy (Trevisan, Gleria, Lamberti, Battistelli)
- 1991: Soviet Union (Lepikov, Pyshnenko, Tayanovich, Sadovyi)
- 1993: Russia (Lepikov, Pyshnenko, Mukin, Sadovyi)
- 1995: Germany (Keller, Lampe, Spanneberg, Zesner)
- 1997: Great Britain (Palmer, Clayton, Meadows, Salter)
- 1999: Germany (Keller, Pohl, Conrad, Kiedel)
- 2000: Italy (Rosolino, Pelliciari, Cercato, Brembilla)
- 2002: Italy (Pelliciari, Brembilla, Cappellazzo, Rosolino)
- 2004: Italy (Brembilla, Pelliciari, Rosolino, Magnini)
- 2006: Italy (Rosolino, Berbotto, Cassio, Magnini)
- 2008: Italy (Brembilla, Rosolino, Cassio, Magnini)
- 2010: Russia (Lobintsev, Izotov, Perunin, Sukhorukov)
- 2012: Germany (Biedermann, Colupaev, Rapp, Wallburger)
- 2014: Germany (Backhaus, Lebherz, Rapp, Biedermann)
- 2016: Netherlands (Dreesens, Brzoskowski, Stolk, Verschuren)
- 2018: Great Britain (Jarvis, Scott, Dean, Guy)
- 2020: Russia (Malyutin, Shchegolev, Krasnykh, Vekovishchev)
- 2022: Hungary (Németh, Márton, Holló, Milák)