Karen Legg
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| Full name | Karen Legg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 June 1978 Poole, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 59 kg (130 lb; 9.3 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Ferndown Otters | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Karen Legg (born 3 June 1978), also known by her married name Karen Crumpler, is an English former freestyle swimmer.
Swimming career
[edit]She competed for Great Britain in the Olympics, FINA world championships and European championships, and swam for England in the Commonwealth Games. During her seven-year international career (1998–2005),[1] she won four world, two European and seven Commonwealth medals. Legg also competed for Great Britain in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney in the women's 4×200-metre freestyle relay.
She represented England and won two silver medals in the relay events, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[2][3] Four years later she won five more medals, three in the relay events (including a gold medal) and two in the individual events.[4]
She won the 2001 British Championship in the 200 metres freestyle and the 400 metres freestyle.
See also
[edit]- List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (women)
- World record progression 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay
References
[edit]- "Former Swimmer Profiles: Karen Legg". British Swimming. Retrieved 18 March 2009.
- "Athletes > Karen Legg". British Olympic Association. Retrieved 18 March 2009.
- "Karen Legg Biography and Olympic Results". SportsReference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 11 November 2009.
- ^ "Legg to quit top-class swimming". BBC Sport. 14 March 2009. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
- ^ "1998 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "England team in 1998". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
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- 1978 births
- Living people
- English female freestyle swimmers
- British female freestyle swimmers
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- Olympic swimmers for Great Britain
- Sportspeople from Poole
- Swimmers at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- British swimming biography stubs