Double Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington introduced her retirement from competitive swimming on today in 2013.
Adlington, a two-time winner on the Beijing Games, referred to as time on her profession months after she had gained two bronze medals at her residence Olympics in London.
Aged solely 23, Adlington went on to finish the 12 months by showing in ‘I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!’ earlier than turning into an everyday pundit for the BBC.
It was the 2008 Olympics the place the Mansfield-born swimmer got here to prominence with a record-breaking Games.
Adlington gained each the 400-metre freestyle and 800-metre freestyle in Beijing to change into Britain’s first Olympic swimming champion since 1988.
Further information had been achieved with {the teenager}’s time of 8:14.10 in the 800-metre remaining breaking Janet Evans’ 19-year file whereas her double gold-medal win made her the primary British swimmer to realize that feat in 100 years.
More medals could be gained on the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome with Adlington claiming two bronzes earlier than she clinched the 400-metre freestyle on the European Swimming Championships in Budapest the next 12 months.
At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi she repeated her Olympic double with golds in the 400-metre freestyle and 800-metre freestyle occasions.
More gold-medal success was achieved on the World Aquatics Championships in 2011 however Adlington needed to be content material with two third-place finishes in her residence Olympics in London earlier than she retired from the game.
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