Kathryn Evans (swimmer)
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Kathryn Evans |
| National team |  Great Britain |
| Born | 5 August 1981 |
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb; 10.6 st) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle, medley |
| Club | Nova Centurion |
| Coach | Bill Furniss |
Kathryn Evans (born 5 August 1981) is an English former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games. Evans specialised in freestyle and individual medley events.[1] She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004), and a double British champion in the 200 m individual medley (2001 and 2002).[2] Evans also played for Nova Centurion Swim Club in Nottingham, under head coach Bill Furniss.[3] Evans is the cousin of late rower Acer Nethercott, who competed in the men's eight at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[4]
Evans made her Olympic debut, as a member of Team GB, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the 200 m individual medley. Swimming in heat five, she rounded out a field of eight swimmers to last place and twenty-fourth overall in 2:19.41, just 5.58 seconds behind defending Olympic champion Yana Klochkova of Ukraine.[5]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Evans competed only in two events as a relay swimmer.[6][7] She finished second in the 100 m freestyle from the Olympic trials in Sheffield, posting a relay entry time of 55.52.[8] On the first day of the Games, Evans helped out the Brits to pull off a sixth-place effort in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay with a final time of 3:40.82. Teaming with Melanie Marshall, Karen Pickering, and Lisa Chapman in the final, Evans swam a second leg, and posted a lifetime best of 54.33.[9][10][11] Exactly a week later, in the 4 × 100 m medley relay, Evans, along with Katy Sexton, Kirsty Balfour, and Georgina Lee, finished in fifth place, but were later disqualified due to an early take-off in the anchor freestyle leg.[12][13][14]
