Sarah Vasey
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| Full name | Sarah Marie Vasey | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 August 1996 Derby, England | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 9 st 8 lb (61 kg)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sarah Marie Vasey (born 29 August 1996) is a former British swimmer.[3] She competed in the women's 50 metre and 100 metre breaststroke events at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.[4][5] Vasey qualified for the 50 metre breaststroke final at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast, Australia and went on to win gold.[6]
Vasey was included in April 2021 as a member of the "high quality" British team to go to the postponed 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. She joined an "exceptionally high quality" swimming team which included Jacob Whittle, Abbie Wood and Molly Renshaw who are all from Derbyshire and also at their first Olympics.[7]
On 23 September 2022, Vasey announced her retirement from the sport.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sarah Vasey". teamengland.org. Commonwealth Games England. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
- ^ "Sarah Vasey". results.gc2018.com. 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
- ^ "Sarah Vasey". British Swimming. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
- ^ "Heats results". FINA. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
- ^ "2017 World Aquatics Championships > Search via Athletes". Budapest 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games: England's Sarah Vasey wins gold in 50m breaststroke". BBC Sport. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
- ^ "'Exceptionally high-quality' team named for Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games". Swim England Competitive Swimming Hub. 27 April 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
- ^ "Vasey calls time on swimming career". British Swimming. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
External links
[edit]- Sarah Vasey at British Swimming (archived)
- Sarah Vasey at World Aquatics
- Sarah Vasey at the International Swimming League
- Sarah Vasey at Team GB
- Sarah Vasey at Olympics.com
- Sarah Vasey at Olympedia
- Sarah Vasey at Team England
- Sarah Vasey at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (archived)
- Sarah Vasey at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
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