Kiera Leigh Aitken (born 31 October 1983) is an Olympic and national-record holding swimmer from Bermuda. She is one of Bermuda's most successful swimmers, and has twice been named Bermuda's Female Athlete of the Year (for 2004 and 2009). She carried Bermuda's flag at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Commonwealth Games. She has swum for Bermuda at: *Olympics:

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

*Commonwealth Games:

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

*World Championships: 2007, 2009 *Pan American Games:

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

She swam in college at Canada's

Dalhousie University Dalhousie University (commonly known as Dal) is a large public research university in Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the fou ...

.Living the Olympic dream
by Keri Irwin, ''Dal News''. Published 2005-01-26. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

References

1983 births Living people Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2003 Pan American Games Swimmers at the 2007 Pan American Games Swimmers at the 2011 Pan American Games Pan American Games competitors for Bermuda Bermudian female swimmers Olympic swimmers of Bermuda Commonwealth Games competitors for Bermuda Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Swimmers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Dalhousie University alumni People from Devonshire Parish {{Bermuda-swimming-bio-stub