Siobhan-Marie O'Connor

Siobhan-Marie O'Connor
O'Connor (right) at the 2015 World Swimming Championships
Personal information
Surname:	Siobhan-Marie O'Connor
Nation:	United Kingdom
Swimming style (s) :	Layers, freestyle, butterfly, chest
Society:	Team Bath
College team:	University of Bath
Birthday:	November 29, 1995
Place of birth:	Bath
Size:	1.73 m
Weight:	60 kg
Medal table

Siobhan-Marie O'Connor (born November 29, 1995 in Bath , Somerset ) is a British swimmer .

Career

Siobhan-Marie O'Connor competed in the Junior European Championships for the first time in 2010 and reached two finals there. In 2011 she won three gold and one silver medal at her second European Junior Championship and qualified for the World Championships in Shanghai , where she reached the semi-finals over 200 m medley and was 13th.

In 2012 she qualified as the youngest British swimmer for the Olympic Games in London , where she was 21st in the 100 m breaststroke and eighth in the British 4 × 100 m individual relay relay. Her first international medal among the seniors followed at the European Short Course Championships in Chartres in 2012 with bronze over 100 m medley and in 2013 she reached the final over 200 m medley at the World Championships in Barcelona . At the end of 2013 she won silver over 200 and bronze over 100 m medley at the European short course championships . In addition, she received bronze in 2014 as a member of the relay over 4 × 50 m individual medley after the result of the originally victorious Russian relay had been canceled by Yulia Yefimova due to doping .

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow , O'Connor won three individual and three relay medals, including gold in the 200m medley. At the short course World Cup in Doha , she won three silver medals: over 100 and 200 m individual medley as well as in a new European record time with the mixed relay over 4 × 50 m individual medley. At the 2015 World Championships , she won bronze in the 200 m medley and became world champion with the mixed 4 × 100 m medley in a world record time. With the women's relay over 4 × 200 m freestyle and 4 × 100 m medley, she was fifth and sixth. At the 2015 European Short Course Championships in Netanya , she won two silver medals in the 100 and 200 m medley and also reached the finals in the 50 and 100 m butterfly, where she finished 6th and 7th. In 2016, O'Connor was two-time European champion at the European Championships in London with the 4 × 100 m medley relay for women and in mixed. She also won silver in the 200 m individual medley behind Katinka Hosszú .

Siobhan-Marie O'Connor won seven gold, four silver and one bronze medal at British championships between 2013 and 2016. She is in a relationship with Chris Walker-Hebborn and trains in Bath with Dave McNulty and Graeme Antwhistle. 2012, chronic bowel disease was at its ulcerative colitis diagnosed.

Best times and records

Personal bests
discipline	Long track			Short course
100 m freestyle	53.81 s	April 14, 2015	London	52.98 s	October 24, 2015	Manchester
200 m freestyle	1: 55.82 min	July 24, 2014	Glasgow	1: 53.82 min	December 12, 2015	Indianapolis
100 m chest	BR 1: 06.34 min	July 1, 2016	Glasgow	1: 06.08 min	December 12, 2014	Edinburgh
50 m butterfly	26.45 s	March 1, 2014	Berlin	25.49 s	3rd December 2015	Netanya
100 m butterfly	57.45 s	July 25, 2014	Glasgow	55.93 s	December 11, 2015	Indianapolis
100 m layers	-			BR 57.59 s	3rd December 2015	Netanya
200 m layers	BR 2: 08.21 min	July 27, 2014	Glasgow	BR 2: 05.13 min	5th December 2015	Netanya
World record
4 × 100 m layers mixed long track (with Chris Walker-Hebborn , Adam Peaty and Francesca Halsall )				3: 41.71 min	5th August 2015	Kazan
European record
4 × 50 m mixed layers short course (with Chris Walker-Hebborn , Adam Peaty and Francesca Halsall )				1: 37.46 min	4th December 2014	Doha
BR = British record; As of July 30, 2016

Web links

Commons : Siobhan-Marie O'Connor  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Siobhan-Marie O'Connor in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
• Siobhan-Marie O'Connor in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at British Swimming (English)
• Best times at swimmingresults.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neil Rose: Glasgow 2014: "We're like the golden couple" - Chris Walker-Hebborn and girlfriend Siobhan-Marie O'Connor celebrate swimming success. (No longer available online.) Bath Chronicle, July 31, 2014, archived from the original on December 26, 2015 ; accessed on July 30, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Ben Bloom: How a tragic shooting made Siobhan-Marie O'Connor appreciate life ahead of the Rio Olympics. The Telegraph, January 6, 2016, accessed July 30, 2016 .