Cheryl Brazendale
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| Born | 1963 (age 62–63) Suffolk | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cheryl Elaine Brazendale (born 1963), is a female former swimmer who competed for Great Britain and England.
Swimming career
She was the first British woman to swim the 100m freestyle under 1 minute, on Friday August 27, 1976.[1]
Brazendale represented Great Britain in the 1978 World Aquatics Championships.
She represented England and won a silver medal in the 4 x 100 metres freestyle, at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.[2][3]
Swimming for Norbeck Castle, Blackpool, she won 1976 ASA National Championship over 100 metres freestyle.[4]
References
- ↑ West Lancashire Evening Gazette Tuesday 18 August 1998, page 18
- ↑ "1978 Athletes". Team England.
- ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ↑ ""A 13-year-old breaks the barrier." Times, 28 Aug. 1976, p. 18". Times Digital Archive.
Categories:
- 1963 births
- Living people
- English female freestyle swimmers
- British female freestyle swimmers
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medallists at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
- Sportspeople from Blackpool
- Sportspeople from Suffolk
- 20th-century English sportswomen
- English swimming biography stubs