Nicola Jackson
{{Short description|British swimmer}}
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| name = Nicola Jackson
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| fullname = Nicola Clare Jackson
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| strokes = Freestyle, butterfly
| club = Derwentside ASC
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1984|2|19|df=y}}
| birth_place = Northallerton, England
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| height = {{convert|1.75|m|ftin|abbr=on}}{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ja/nicola-jackson-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418025355/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ja/nicola-jackson-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 April 2020|title=Nicola Jackson Biography and Olympic Results|accessdate=5 January 2010}}
| weight = {{convert|52|kg|lb st|abbr=on}}
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{{MedalSport | Women's swimming}}
{{MedalCountry | Great Britain}}
{{MedalCompetition | World Championships (LC) }}
{{MedalGold | 2001 Fukuoka | 4×200 m freestyle }}
{{MedalCompetition | World Championships (SC) }}
{{MedalGold | 2000 Athens | 4×200 m freestyle }}
{{MedalSilver | 1999 Hong Kong | 4×200 m freestyle }}
{{MedalBronze | 2000 Athens | 50 m butterfly}}
{{MedalCompetition | European Championships (SC) }}
{{MedalBronze | 1999 Lisbon | 50 m butterfly }}
{{MedalBronze | 1999 Lisbon | 4×50 m freestyle }}
{{MedalBronze | 1999 Lisbon | 4×50 m medley }}
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Nicola Jackson (born 19 February 1984){{cite web|url=http://www.olympics.org.uk/athleterecord.aspx?at=1765|title=British Olympic Association|accessdate=5 January 2010}} is a British former competitive swimmer who won two world championships in relay events.
Swimming career
In 1999, Jackson won a silver medal at the World Short Course Championships in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay. The next year, at the 2000 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), she won a bronze medal in the 50-metre butterfly, and a gold medal as part of Great Britain's world-record-breaking 4×200-metre freestyle relay team.{{cite web|url=http://www.uksport.gov.uk/news/157/|title=The Road to Athens- Nicola Jackson|accessdate=5 January 2010}} Jackson swam in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, as a member of Great Britain's 4×200-metre freestyle relay team, which finished in sixth place. In 2001, she won her only international medal in a long course championship, in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships.{{cite web|url=http://www.fina.org/pdf/histoFina/HistoFINA_IV_b.pdf|title=History of FINA – Women's Events|accessdate=5 January 2010}}{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
At the ASA National British Championships she won the 50 metres butterfly title in 1999.{{cite web|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0500959152/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=ec42c041|title="For the Record." Times, 10 July 1999, p. 36|website=Times Digital Archive}}
Jackson studied at Durham University (Collingwood College).{{cite web |title=Sport |url=http://www.dur.ac.uk/weblines/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021225130726/http://www.dur.ac.uk/weblines/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2002-12-25 |website=Durham University Weblines (via Internet Wayback Machine) |accessdate=17 May 2019 |date=September 2001}} She is the sister of British swimmer Joanne Jackson.
See also
References
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{{Footer World LC Champions 4x200m Freestyle Women}}
{{Footer World SC Champions 4x200m Freestyle Women}}
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Category:Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic swimmers for Great Britain
Category:British female freestyle swimmers
Category:World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
Category:Sportspeople from Northallerton
Category:Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
Category:Alumni of Collingwood College, Durham
Category:21st-century British sportswomen
Category:English female freestyle swimmers