Anna Hopkin (born 24 April 1996) is a British

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. She won gold as part of the British team at the

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, setting a new world record time.

Career

Hopkin, who is from

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, competed for England in the

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at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning a bronze medal. In May 2021, at the European Championships held in

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, Hopkin won gold medals in women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle, women's 4 × 100 metre medley, mixed 4 × 100 metre freestyle and mixed 4 × 100 metre medley relays. Hopkin was named as a member of the British team to go to the postponed 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. This would be her first Olympics and she joined as part of what was considered a "high quality" swimming team. Hopkin swam the anchor freestyle leg in the Mixed 4 x 100 metre medley relay, and won gold in a new world record time of 3 minutes 37.58 seconds together with

Adam Peaty Adam George Peaty (born 28 December 1994) is an English competitive swimmer who specialises in the breaststroke. He won the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics, the first by a male British swimmer in 24 years, ...

, James Guy and

Kathleen Dawson Kathleen Mary Dawson (born 3 October 1997) is a Scottish backstroke swimmer. She won gold at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in mixed 4 × 100 metre medley relay in a world record time. She is also the European champion at the 2020 Budapest Champi ...

. In 2023, she won the gold medal at the 2023 British Swimming Championships in the 50 metres freestyle. It was the third consecutive time that she had won the 50 metres event.

Awards

Hopkin was appointed

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(MBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to swimming.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hopkin, Anna 1996 births Living people English female swimmers English female freestyle swimmers Swimmers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Swimmers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Team Bath swimmers Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Sportspeople from Chorley Olympic swimmers of Great Britain Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists in swimming Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain Arkansas Razorbacks women's swimmers Members of the Order of the British Empire Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games