Vicky Horner
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| Full name | Victoria Elizabeth Horner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Vicky" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 May 1976 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb; 10.6 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Derwentside ASC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Victoria Elizabeth Horner (born 11 May 1976) is a female English former competitive swimmer.
Swimming career
[edit | edit source]She represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games and European championships. She won a bronze medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay at the 1995 European Aquatics Championships. Her team finished 10th in the same event at the 1996 Summer Olympics.[1] She also won a silver medal in the 400-metre freestyle at the European Short Course Swimming Championships 1998.[2] She represented England at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada[3][4] and won a silver medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in the 400-metre freestyle.[5]
She is a three-times winner of the British Championship in 400-metre freestyle (1997, 1998 and 2000).[6][7][8]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Her husband, Rob Hayles, is a retired Olympic sprint cyclist.[1] They have a daughter, born 23 January 2006.[9]
References
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- 1976 births
- Living people
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers for Great Britain
- English female freestyle swimmers
- British female freestyle swimmers
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists in swimming
- Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from Newcastle upon Tyne
- 20th-century English sportswomen