Tamsin Cook
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Born | 1998 (age 25–26)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||
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Tamsin Cook (born 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.[2]
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.[3][4] 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.[5]
In October 2015, Cook was named 'Western Australia Institute of Sport’s Junior Athlete of the Year'.[6]
Senior career
In April 2016, Cook qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in 400-meter freestyle, which will be her first Olympics.[7]
Personal life
Cook moved from South Africa to Perth, Australia when she was 8.[8]
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