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Nick Gillingham Personal information Born 22 January 1967 Medal recordMen's swimming Competitor for 
Great BritainOlympic Games Silver 1988 Seoul 200 m breaststroke Bronze 1992 Barcelona 200 m breaststroke World Championships - Long Course Bronze 1991 Perth 200 m breaststroke World Championships - Short Course Gold 1993 Palma 200 m breaststroke Bronze 1993 Palma 4×100 m medley European Championships - Long Course Gold 1989 Bonn 200 m breaststroke Gold 1991 Athens 200 m breaststroke Gold 1993 Sheffield 200 m breaststroke Silver 1993 Sheffield 100 m breaststroke Bronze 1989 Bonn 100 m breaststroke Bronze 1993 Sheffield 4×100 m medley Competitor for 
EnglandCommonwealth Games Gold 1994 Victoria 200 m breaststroke Silver 1986 Edinburgh 4×100 m medley Silver 1994 Victoria 100 m breaststroke Bronze 1986 Edinburgh 200 m breaststroke Bronze 1990 Auckland 100 m breaststroke Bronze 1990 Auckland 200 m breaststroke Bronze 1994 Victoria 4×100 m medley Nicholas ("Nick") Gillingham (born 22 January 1967 in Walsall) is a former swimmer from Great Britain, who participated in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988. In August 1989, he tied the existing world record in the long-course 200 m breaststroke, only to co-hold it for 1-day before the other co-holder, Mike Barrowman (USA), lowered the record again. At the 1988 Olympics he won the silver medal in the 200 metres breaststroke, followed by a bronze one in the same event, four years later in Barcelona.
Gillingham, who was trained by Tim Jones, also won the world title at the first inaugural 1993 FINA Short Course World Championships in Palma de Mallorca. He broke three world, ten European, nine Commonwealth and seventeen British records during his career and won 17 major championships.
Gillingham was awarded the MBE in 1993 for ‘services to swimming’ and retired from full-time competitive sport in 1996. After retiring, he established a sports communications business focusing on sports marketing, development & events.
Recently, Gillingham took part in a scheme called Young Ambassadors, promoting youth sport development in the North East of England at Loughborough.
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World Short Course Champions in Men's 200 m Breaststroke 1993: Nick Gillingham (GBR) • 1995: Wang Yiwu (CHN) • 1997: Aleksandr Gukov (BLR) • 1999: Phil Rogers (AUS) • 2000: Roman Sloudnov (RUS) • 2002: Jim Piper (AUS) • 2004: Brendan Hansen (USA) • 2006: Vladislav Polyakov (KAZ) • 2008: Kristopher Gilchrist (GBR) • 2010: Naoya Tomita (JPN)Commonwealth Champions in Men's 200 m Breaststroke 1930 – 1934: 200 Yards Breaststroke • 1938 – 1966: 220 Yards Breaststroke • 1970 – 2010: 200 Metres Breaststroke1930: Jack Aubin (CAN) • 1934: Norman Hamilton (SCO) • 1938: John Davies (ENG) • 1950: David Hawkins (AUS) • 1954: Jack Doms (NZL) • 1958: Terry Gathercole (AUS) • 1962: Ian O'Brien (AUS) • 1966: Ian O'Brien (AUS) • 1970: Bill Mahony (CAN) • 1974: David Wilkie (SCO) • 1978: Graham Smith (CAN) • 1982: Victor Davis (CAN) • 1986: Adrian Moorhouse (ENG) • 1990: Jonathan Cleveland (CAN) • 1994: Nick Gillingham (ENG) • 1998: Simon Cowley (ENG) • 2002: Jim Piper (AUS) • 2006: Mike Brown (CAN) • 2010: Brenton Rickard (AUS)
European Champions in Men's 200 m Breaststroke 1926: Erich Rademacher (GER) • 1927: Erich Rademacher (GER) • 1931: Ivo Reingoldt (FIN) • 1934: Erwin Sietas (GER) • 1938: Joachim Balke (GER) • 1947: Roy Romain (GBR) • 1950: Herbert Klein (FRG) • 1954: Klaus Bodinger (GDR) • 1958: Leonid Kolesnikov (URS) • 1962: Georgiy Prokopenko (URS) • 1966: Georgiy Prokopenko (URS) • 1970: Klaus Katzur (GDR) • 1974: David Wilkie (GBR) • 1977: Gerald Mörken (FRG) • 1981: Robertas Žulpa (URS) • 1983: Adrian Moorhouse (GBR) • 1985: Dmitriy Volkov (URS) • 1987: József Szabó (HUN) • 1989: Nick Gillingham (GBR) • 1991: Nick Gillingham (GBR) • 1993: Nick Gillingham (GBR) • 1995: Andrey Korneyev (RUS) • 1997: Aleksandr Gukov (BLR) • 1999: Stéphan Perrot (FRA) • 2000: Dmitriy Komornikov (RUS) • 2002: Davide Rummolo (ITA) • 2004: Paolo Bossini (ITA) • 2006: Sławomir Kuczko (POL) • 2008: Grigory Falko (RUS) • 2010: Dániel Gyurta (HUN)
Categories:- 1967 births
- Living people
- People from Walsall
- English swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of Great Britain
- Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Olympic silver medalists for Great Britain
- Olympic bronze medalists for Great Britain
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Former world record holders in swimming
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- British swimming Olympic medalist stubs
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