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British swimmer
Full name Karen Denise Pickering Nationality British Born (1971-12-19 ) 19 December 1971 (age 52)
Brighton and Hove ,
East Sussex Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9+ 1 ⁄2 in) Sport
Swimming Strokes Freestyle Club Ipswich Swim Club
Karen Denise Pickering ,
MBE (born 19 December 1971) is a former
freestyle swimmer from
Great Britain .
Swimming career
She made her international senior debut in 1986. She was first selected to represent her country at the European Junior Championships. Pickering competed in four consecutive
Summer Olympics , starting in
1992 .
She won her first medal in 1993, at the inaugural
1993 FINA Short Course World Championships in
Palma de Mallorca , where she won the gold medal in the 200 m freestyle. With that performance Pickering became Britain's first
swimming world champion.
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She was a member of the British swimming squad from 1986 to 2005 and has a collection that includes 8 World Championship medals (4 gold), 14 European Championship medals, 38 National Championship titles, and a Commonwealth Games medal haul of 13 including 4 gold. The
2002 Commonwealth Games saw Karen win three medals, two gold and one silver, in front of her home crowd, a career highlight which was crowned with the honour of carrying the English flag at the closing ceremony.
She is a two times winner of the
British Championship in the 50 metres freestyle (1992 and 1993), seven times winner of the
100 metres freestyle (1989-1993, 1997, 2000), nine times winner of the
200 metres freestyle (1990, 1992–1995, 1997, 1999 and 2002–2003) and was the
400 metres freestyle champion in 1992, 2002 and 2003.
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Honours
For her services to swimming Karen was awarded an MBE in the 1994 New Years Honours List.
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Pickering is now
[update] the Sports Ambassador for
Ipswich in
Suffolk ,
[12] and chaired the
British Athletes Commission between 2004 and 2016.
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See also
References
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"Westlake beats the champion" . BBC Sport. 1 November 2004. Retrieved 3 December 2018 .
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" "For the Record." Times, 13 June 1992, p. 43" . The Times . Times Digital Archive. 13 June 1992. p. 43.
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" "For the Record." Times, 12 June 1993, p. 39" . The Times . Times Digital Archive. 12 June 1993. p. 39.
^ Downes, Steven (14 July 1989).
"Downes, Steven. "Parker's display shows he can be a masked marvel." Times, 14 July 1989, p. 47" . The Times . Times Digital Archive. p. 47.
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" "Results from Leeds." Times, 5 Aug. 1991, p. 30" . The Times . Times Digital Archive. 5 August 1991. p. 30.
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" "Results from Sheffield." Times, 15 June 1992, p. 28" . The Times . Times Digital Archive. 15 June 1992. p. 28.
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" "For the Record." Times, 14 June 1993, p. 24" . The Times . Times Digital Archive. 14 June 1993. p. 24.
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" "For the Record." Times, 28 July 1990, p. 31" . The Times . Times Digital Archive. 28 July 1990. p. 31.
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" "For the Record." Times, 1 Aug. 1994, p. 23" . The Times . August 1994. p. 23.
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" "For the Record." Times, 21 July 1995, p. 38" . The Times . 21 July 1995. p. 38.
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" "For the Record." Times, 18 July 1997, p. 42" . The Times . 18 July 1997. p. 42.
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"Karen set to pitch in" . Ipswich Star . 27 November 2008. Retrieved 3 December 2018 .
^ Heath, Sara (4 July 2016).
"Interim Chair of the BAC Announced" . The British Athletes Commission. Retrieved 3 December 2018 .
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