Frances Adcock
Personal information | |
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Full name | Frances Adcock |
National team | ![]() |
Born | Nottingham, England |
9 August 1984
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Backstroke |
Club | Norwood Swimming Club |
Frances Adcock (born 9 August 1984) is a British-born Australian former competition swimmer who specialized in backstroke events.[1]
Adcock was born in Nottingham, England. She moved to Adelaide, South Australia in her teenage years, where she worked as a resident athlete and a varsity player for the Western Sharks and Norwood Swimming Club.[2]
Adcock is a three-time short-course Australian champion in the 200m backstroke breaking the Australian record for the event at the 2008 World SC Championship trials. Adcock qualified for the women's 200-metre backstroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by attaining both her personal record and an A-standard entry time of 2:13.48 from the Telstra Olympic Swimming Trials in Sydney.[3][4] In the morning's preliminary heats, Adcock secured a fifteenth overall spot for the next round, with a time of 2:14.85. On the evening session, however, Adcock fell short in her bid for the final, as she finished the semifinal run, with the slowest time of 2:15.69, more than two seconds behind her teammate Melissa Morgan.[5]
Adcock retired from swimming to pursue her career as a sports and news journalist for ABC Wide Bay in Queensland.[6]
Adcock contributes to national ABC programs 'The World Today' and 'AM'.
She has two degrees in Journalism and International Studies.
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External links
- Profile – Australian Olympic Team
- Frances Adcock on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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