Siobhan-Marie O'Connor

Siobhan-Marie O'Connor (born 29 November 1995) is a former English competitive swimmer who has represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games, the FINA World Aquatics Championships and the LEN European Aquatics Championships, and England at the Commonwealth Games. A specialist in the 200 metres individual medley, she is the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games champion in the event, and has won silver medals in the same event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, the 2015 World Aquatics Championships, 2016 European Aquatics Championships, the 2014 World Short-Course Championships and the 2013 and 2015 European Short Course Championships – on each occasion behind World and Olympic champion Katinka Hosszú. With six Commonwealth Games medals in total from 2014, O'Connor was England's most decorated athlete at those Games.

Siobhan-Marie O'Connor
O'Connor (right) at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships medal ceremony for the 200 m medley
Personal information
Full nameSiobhan-Marie O'Connor
Nickname(s)SOC
National team Great Britain
Born (1995-11-29) 29 November 1995
Bath, England
Height5 ft 7 in (170 cm)[1]
Weight132 lb (60 kg)[1]
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle, butterfly, medley, breaststroke
ClubBath National Centre[2]
CoachDavid McNulty
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  Great Britain
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 0 1 0
World Championships (LC) 1 0 1
World Championships (SC) 0 3 0
European Championships(LC) 2 1 1
European Championships 0 3 2
Commonwealth Games 2 4 3
Total 5 12 7
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place2016 Rio de Janeiro200 m medley
World Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place2015 Kazan4×100 m mixed medley
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Kazan 200 m medley
World Championships (SC)
Silver medal – second place 2014 Doha 100 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2014 Doha 200 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2014 Doha 4×50 m mixed medley
European Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place2016 London4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place2016 London4×100 m mixed medley
Silver medal – second place2016 London200 m medley
Bronze medal – third place2018 Glasgow4×100m medley
European Championships (SC)
Silver medal – second place 2013 Herning 200 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2015 Netanya 100 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2015 Netanya 200 m medley
Bronze medal – third place2019 Glasgow200 m medley
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Glasgow 200 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2018 Gold Coast 200 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2014 Glasgow 200 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2014 Glasgow 100 m butterfly
Silver medal – second place 2014 Glasgow 4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2014 Glasgow 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Glasgow 4×200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Gold Coast 4×100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Gold Coast 4×200 m freestyle

In addition, O'Connor swam the butterfly leg for Great Britain in the non-Olympic 4 x 100-metre mixed medley relay that won gold at the 2015 FINA World Aquatics Championships in a world record time for the event. she has also won gold medals in 2016 at the European Championships in the same event, and in the women's 4 x 100 metres medley relay.

O'Connor first competed for Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 100m breaststroke event.[3] She holds the British records for 200 metres individual medley, the 100 breaststroke and the 4 x 100-metre mixed medley relay.

O'Connor announced her retirement from competitive swimming on 16 June 2021, following a long battle with ulcerative colitis,[4]

Personal life

O'Connor attended St. Gregory's Catholic College in Bath. She missed her prom to compete in the qualifying meet for the 2012 London Olympics.[5] In 2015, Siobhan was at a Team Bath warm weather training camp at Northern Arizona University at the same time four students were shot by a freshman following an altercation outside a fraternity house, leaving one dead and three wounded. [6]

O'Connor has ulcerative colitis, a type of inflammatory bowel disease.[7]

See also

References
  1. "Siobhan-Marie O'Connor". Athletes' profiles. Gold Coast 2018. Archived from the original on 10 April 2018. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
  2. "Siobhan-Marie O'Connor". British Swimming. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
  3. "Siobhan-Marie O'Connor". teamgb.com. Archived from the original on 29 July 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
  4. Siobhan-Marie O'Connor retires aged 25 because of 'debilitating' struggles Archived 16 June 2021 at the Wayback Machine, from BBC Sport.
  5. "Bath schoolgirl who missed the prom for a golden date at Olympics". 28 June 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  6. "How a tragic shooting made Siobhan-Marie O'Connor appreciate life ahead of the Rio Olympics". Archived from the original on 12 May 2020. Retrieved 21 August 2016.
  7. "Siobhan-Marie O'Connor: Life in the ISL 'Budapest bio-bubble' and coping with 'invisible illness'". BBC Sport. 29 October 2020. Archived from the original on 31 October 2020. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
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