Women's 4x200m freestyle relay

	Name: Fran Halsall Date of Birth: 12 April 1990 Home country: England Born: Southport, Liverpool Sport: Swimming Event: 100m Butterfly, 100m Freestyle, 4x100m Freestyle Relay, 4x200m Freestyle Relay, 50m Freestyle Coach: Colin Stripe Club: City of Liverpool Years on World Class Pathway: 2		Name: Rebecca Adlington Date of Birth: 17 February 1989 Home country: England Born: Mansfield Sport: Swimming Event: 200m freestyle, 400m freestyle, 4x200m freestyle, 800m freestyle Coach: Bill Furniss Club: Nova Centurion Years on World Class Pathway: 4
	Name: Jo Jackson Date of Birth: 12 September 1986 Home country: England Born: Northallerton Sport: Swimming Event: 400m freestyle, 4 x 200m freestyle Coach: Dave McNulty Club: Derwentside Years on World Class Pathway: 5		Name: Caitlin McClatchey Date of Birth: 28 November 1985 Home country: Scotland Born: Portsmouth Sport: Swimming Event: 100m freestyle, 200m freestyle, 4 x 100m freestyle, 4 x 200m freestyle Coach: Ben Titley Club: Loughborough University Years on World Class Pathway: 4

UK Sport World Class Pathway Funding:

Podium investment in athlete’s sport 2005/2009 Olympiad	£8.8million
Average annual podium investment in athlete’s sport 2005/2009 Olympiad	£2.2million
Podium athlete personal award 2008/9 (average for athlete’s level after means testing across all sports)	£17,944

Major achievements to date:

2008 World Short Course Championships - 1 silver medal (4x200m freestyle)

UK Sport’s investment:

The programme supporting our elite swimmers ensures that they can all train full time, putting in intensive mileage in the pool, while having adequate recovery time between training sessions. This is all supported by dedicated full time coaching staff and sports science and medicine practitioners (employed by either British Swimming or the home country sports institutes) on hand at pool side (physiotherapy, strength and conditioning, nutrition, biomechanics, physiology, medicine) and at dry land strength and conditioning sessions.

The team are also fully supported with training camps and a world class competition schedule, both at home and abroad, including warm weather training camps in Europe and at British Swimming’s Offshore Centre in the Gold Coast of Australia where the team have priority access to the pool, and the recent World Short Course Championships in Manchester, funded by UK Sport’s World Class Events Programme. The team had fantastic success at this event, boosting their confidence prior to Beijing and having a chance to refine their technical skills in the short course pool.

UK Sport’s Research and Innovation programme has supported the installation of underwater and overhead cameras in British Swimming’s main base in Loughborough, which allows remote monitoring of the athletes’ performance including real-time speed, race analysis and technical feedback.

Four of British Swimming’s coaches have either completed or are currently completing UK Sport’s Elite Coach programme, a course designed to accelerate the development of coaches with the potential to be the driving force behind British medal success. Tailor-made programmes are built around each coach, which allows them to develop both their technical skills by working with and observing the best in action and to develop the leadership skills which are the hallmarks of the most successful operators, not just from the world of sport, but also in the worlds of business, industry and the arts.

Kevin Renshaw was in the first group of Elite Coach Graduates in 2007 and heads to Beijing as coach of a medal prospect for both pool and open water swimming, David Davies. Developing the coaches working with the world class swimmers has been a fundamental component of the programme over the last four years and a large number of the British coaches have been exposed to personal development and training opportunities.