Freya Colbert
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| Full name | Freya Constance Colbert | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 March 2004 Grantham, Lincolnshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain/England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Freestyle, individual medley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University team | Loughborough University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Nova Centurion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Freya Constance Colbert (born 8 March 2004) is an English international swimmer. Representing Great Britain, she is the 2024 World Championship gold medalist in the 400 metres individual medley. She has represented England at the Commonwealth Games and won a bronze medal.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Colbert was educated at Kesteven & Grantham Girls School and won three medals at the 2022 British Swimming Championships including a gold medal in the 400 metres individual medley.[3] She consequently represented Great Britain at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships.[4]
In 2022, she was selected for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where she competed in three events; the women's 200 metres freestyle, finishing in 13th place, the women's 400 metres freestyle, the 400 metres individual medley where she just finished just outside of the medal places in 4th and the 4 x 200 metres freestyle relay, where she won a bronze medal.[1]
In 2023, she won three gold medals at the 2023 British Swimming Championships in the 400 metres freestyle, the 800 metres freestyle and the 400 metres medley. It was the second time that she had won the medley title.[5]
After winning the 200 metres freestyle and the 400 metres medley at the 2024 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships, Colbert sealed her place at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[6]
Education
[edit]As of 2024, Freja Colbert is in her 3rd year at Loughborough University. Freja Colbert recently undertook a cell biology group project, primarly about the Endoplasmic Reticulum during her 24PSA602 Module at Loughborough University. She collaborated with Gabriel Thomas Bowden, Megan Clarice Lui, and Thomas William David Cordey.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Official Commonwealth Games profile". Birmingham Organising Committee Commonwealth Games Ltd. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ^ "Freya Colbert results and profile". British Swimming. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ^ "Team England profile". Team England. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ^ "Grantham swimmer, 18, selected to represent Great Britain in World Championships". Grantham Journal. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ^ "British Swimming Championships 2023". British Swimming. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
- ^ "Speedo Aquatics GB Swimming Championships 2024". Swimming.org. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
External links
[edit]- Freya Colbert at World Aquatics
- Freya Colbert at SwimRankings.net
- Freya Colbert at British Swimming
- Freya Colbert at Team England
- Freya Colbert at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
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- 2004 births
- Living people
- English female freestyle swimmers
- British female freestyle swimmers
- Swimmers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from Grantham
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- 21st-century English sportswomen
- Swimmers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- English female medley swimmers
- British female medley swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for Great Britain