Chris Cook (swimmer)
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| Full name | Christopher Antony Cook | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Cooky" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 5 May 1979 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb; 12.0 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | City of Newcastle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Christopher Anthony Cook (born 5 May 1979) is an English former competitive swimmer who swam for Great Britain in the Olympics, world championships and European championships, and competed for England in the Commonwealth Games.[2]
Cook specialises in the breaststroke, and took gold in the 50[3] and 100[4] metre finals representing England at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. He has also competed for Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens[5] and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[6][7] He was named North East Sports Personality of the Year at the North East Sport Awards in 2006.[8]
Living in Wallsend, he was coached by Ian Oliver at the City of Newcastle Swimming Club.[9]
Cook retired from swimming after the Beijing Summer Olympics in 2008,[10] returning to compete in the Swimming World Cup in 2013.[11] He has continued to advocate for aquatics in North East England and around the United Kingdom through work as a motivational speaker.[12][13][14] He has also been involved in initiatives to get more people involved in swimming, such as the Big Swim campaign in 2011.[15]
