Personal information | |
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Full name | Karen Barbara Lee |
National team | ![]() |
Born | Bristol, England | 1 January 1983
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Weight | 64 kg (141 lb; 10.1 st) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Backstroke |
College team | Loughborough University [1] |
Coach | Ben Titley [1] |
Karen Barbara Lee (born 1 January 1983) is an English former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics and European championships. She specialized in backstroke events. [2] She finished sixth in the 200-metre backstroke (2.10.27) at the 2002 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Riesa, Germany. [3] She was also a member of Team GB starting in 1998, and a varsity swimmer for the Loughborough University team, under head coach Ben Titley. [1] [4]
Lee qualified for the women's 200-metre backstroke, as a member of Team GB, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She finished second behind Katy Sexton (2:11.48) at the British Olympic Trials by 0.38 of a second, in a FINA A-standard of 2:11.86. [5] [6] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including Germany's Antje Buschschulte and Russia's Stanislava Komarova, both of whom were top medal favorites. She faded to seventh place by a 5.39-second margin behind winner Komarova in 2:16.10. Lee missed the semifinals by nearly one second, as she placed twentieth overall in the preliminaries. [7] [8]
Personal information | |
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Full name | Karen Barbara Lee |
National team | ![]() |
Born | Bristol, England | 1 January 1983
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Weight | 64 kg (141 lb; 10.1 st) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Backstroke |
College team | Loughborough University [1] |
Coach | Ben Titley [1] |
Karen Barbara Lee (born 1 January 1983) is an English former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics and European championships. She specialized in backstroke events. [2] She finished sixth in the 200-metre backstroke (2.10.27) at the 2002 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Riesa, Germany. [3] She was also a member of Team GB starting in 1998, and a varsity swimmer for the Loughborough University team, under head coach Ben Titley. [1] [4]
Lee qualified for the women's 200-metre backstroke, as a member of Team GB, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She finished second behind Katy Sexton (2:11.48) at the British Olympic Trials by 0.38 of a second, in a FINA A-standard of 2:11.86. [5] [6] She challenged seven other swimmers in heat four, including Germany's Antje Buschschulte and Russia's Stanislava Komarova, both of whom were top medal favorites. She faded to seventh place by a 5.39-second margin behind winner Komarova in 2:16.10. Lee missed the semifinals by nearly one second, as she placed twentieth overall in the preliminaries. [7] [8]