Tamsin Cook
 Portrait of Tamsin Cook at HBF Stadium taken on 13 July 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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25 December 1998[1] Cape Town, South Africa[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Tamsin Cook (born 25 December 1998) is an Australian competitive swimmer and the junior world champion in the 400-meter freestyle.
Junior career
Cook participated in the 2014 Junior Pan Pacific Championships in Maui, Hawaii.[3]
She won the gold medal in the 400 meter freestyle at the 2015 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Singapore in a new Championships record.[4][5] She also broke the Championships record in the 200 meter freestyle with her lead-off leg in the 4×200 m freestyle relay final. In that race she and her teammates broke the junior world record. Cook also won a silver medal in the 200 meter butterfly.[6]
In October 2015, Cook was named Western Australia Institute of Sport's Junior Athlete of the Year.[7]
Senior career
In April 2016, Cook qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the 400-meter freestyle, which will be her first Olympics.[8] She finished 6th in the final.
Personal life
Cook moved from South Africa to Perth, Australia when she was 8. She qualified for an academic scholarship at Perth Modern School, but left after Year 8. She was attending St Marks ACS until year 11. Cook moved to Side in year 11 to focus on her swimming. Cook is currently in year 12 at SIDE.[9]
References
- ↑ "FINA/airweave Swimming World Cup 2015 - Women's 200m Freestyle - Entry List by Event" (PDF). Swimming World. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2016.
- ↑ "Tamsin Cook". olympics.com.au. Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
- ↑ "WA swimmers selected to represent Australia overseas". News.com.au. 30 April 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
- ↑ "Aussie Tamsin Cook Clocks New 400 Freestyle World Juniors Meet Record". SwimSwam. 28 August 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
- ↑ "Tamsin Cook Edges Meet Record in 400 Free at 2015 FINA World Junior Championships". Swimming World. 28 August 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
- ↑ "Wang Siqi Edges Tamsin Cook for 200 Fly Crown at 2015 World Junior Championships". Swimming World. 26 August 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
- ↑ "Tamsin Cook Wins West Australia's Junior Athlete Of The Year Award". SwimSwam. 11 August 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
- ↑ Lord, Craig (8 April 2016). "Rio Tickets For Jess Ashwood, Tamsin Cook, Emma McKeon, Maddy Groves & Jake Packard". Swimvortex. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
- ↑ http://www.side.wa.edu.au/index.php
- ↑ "Cook leads resurgence of WA swimming". The West Australian. 17 October 2015. Retrieved 21 October 2015.