Adam Whitehead

Adam Whitehead

Personal information
Full name	Adam James Whitehead
Nationality	Great Britain
Born	(1980-03-28) 28 March 1980 (age 44) Coventry, England
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	breaststroke
Medal record Men's swimming Representing  Great Britain European Championships (SC) 1998 Sheffield 200 m breaststroke 1999 Lisbon 200 m breaststroke Universiade 2001 Beijing 50 m breaststroke Representing  England Commonwealth Games 2002 Manchester 100 m breaststroke 2002 Manchester 50 m breaststroke 1998 Kuala Lumpur 200 m breaststroke

Adam James Whitehead (born 28 March 1980) is a male former breaststroke swimmer from Coventry, England.

Early life

He attended Henley College Coventry^[1]

Competitive swimming career

Whitehead competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There he was eliminated in the qualifying heats of the men's 100 m and 200 m breaststroke.

He represented England and won a bronze medal in the 200 metres breaststroke event, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.^[2][3] Four years later he won a gold medal and silver medal in the breaststroke events at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.^[4]

At the ASA National British Championships he won the 50 metres breaststroke^[5] and the 100 metres breaststroke in 1999. However, in his strongest event, the 200 metres breaststroke, he won the title three times (1998, 1999 and 2000).^[6][7][8]

Mentoring and management

After this, he worked with the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust as an athlete mentor, using the experiences and skills he gained as an elite sports performer to inspire and support young people, and later in a management role.^[9]

See also

• List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men)

References

1. "Henley College Coventry". The Independent. London. 9 August 2013. Archived from the original on 2 August 2014.
2. "1998 Athletes". Team England.
3. "England team in 1998". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
4. "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
5. "For the Record". The Times. 9 July 1999. p. 49.
6. "For the Record". The Times. 13 July 1998. p. 39.
7. "For the Record". The Times. 12 July 1999. p. 43.
8. "For the Record". The Times. 31 July 2000. p. 35.
9. "Blog: Education will not solve youth inactivity alone. It's all a matter of mindset". Dame Kelly Holmes Trust. 30 September 2017. Archived from the original on 4 October 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2017.

External links

• Adam Whitehead at British Swimming at the Wayback Machine (archived 20 July 2008)
• Adam Whitehead at Olympedia (archive)
• Adam Whitehead at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
• Adam Whitehead at Olympics.com
• Adam James Whitehead at Olympic.org (archived)
• Adam James Whitehead at World Aquatics