Rebecca Adlington

Rebecca Adlington is an English former swimmer who raced in freestyle events, born on 17 February 1989 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. She won two gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, in the 400 metre and 800 metre freestyle, breaking the 19-year-old world record of Janet Evans in the 800 metres. She was Great Britain's first Olympic swimming champion since 1988 and the first British swimmer to win multiple Olympic gold medals at a single Games since 1908. She won her first World Championship gold over 800 metres in 2011 and bronze medals in both the 400 and 800 metre freestyle at the 2012 Olympics in London. She retired in February 2013 at the age of 23, was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 2016, and has since worked as a BBC pundit at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games.