Adrian Roy Turner (born 21 January 1977) is a British former male Olympic swimmer, known for winning silver and bronze medals representing England at the

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and reaching the semi-final of the Athens 2004 Games.

Swimming career

Turner represented Great Britain on numerous occasions during his swimming career principally the 2004 Athens Olympic Games where he swam both individual medley events and reached the semi-final stage of the 200m. Previously Turner had competed at two

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exce ...

; he represented

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in the individual medley events, at the

1998 Commonwealth Games The 1998 Commonwealth Games ''( Malay: Sukan Komanwel 1998)'', officially known as the XVI Commonwealth Games ''(Malay: Sukan Komanwel ke-16)'', was a multi-sport event held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This edition is marked by several unpreceden ...

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, Malaysia. Four years later at the

in Manchester, he represented England in the 200m individual medley finishing in silver medal position in a time of 2:02.10 and the 400m individual medley finishing with bronze in 4:18.75.

Personal life

After retiring from international swimming Turner joined up with Olympic teammate Stephen Parry to found Total Swimming Ltd. The vision of the company is "''Revolutionizing Swimming, Changing Lives.''" Following the 2004 Athens Olympic Games Turner attended the ''Universita` per Stranieri di Perugia'' in Italy, where he studied a post-graduate course in the history of Italian theatre from 2004–2005. He is fluent in Italian. Following this he attended the ''Royal Academy of Dramatic Art'' (RADA) in London, completing a Masters in ''Text and Performance'' from 2005–2006. In 2010 he joined the cast of BBC drama '' The Cut'' in a recurring role as Coach Reynolds. In the same year he was cast in the lead role in Nice Shirt Films' international Vicks Sinex ad-campaign. From 2010 to 2012 he played Championship footballer Danny Deans in Big Balls Films/WeRInteractive's video-game '

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' which was nominated for a BAFTA in 2012 and won the Cannes Golden Lion Award the same year. He is the brother of TV presenter

Beverley Turner Beverley Turner (born 21 October 1973) is an English television and radio presenter. Early life Turner was born in Prestwich, Lancashire. She has a first class degree in English Literature and Language from the University of Manchester. She i ...

and previously brother-in-law of Olympic rower

James Cracknell James Edward Cracknell, (born 5 May 1972) is a British athlete, rowing champion and double Olympic gold medalist. Cracknell was appointed OBE for "services to sport" in the 2005 New Year Honours List. Biography Cracknell began rowing whilst ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Turner, Adrian 1977 births Alumni of RADA English male swimmers Olympic swimmers of Great Britain Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Swimmers at the 2002 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming Alumni of the University of Manchester Living people English male television actors English male video game actors Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games

Swimming career

Personal life

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