Tamsin Cook (born 25 December 1998) is an Australian

swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...

and the former junior world champion in the 400-meter freestyle. After a neck injury in 2018 she retired from swimming, but returned in 2020 and qualified for the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

in Tokyo.

Junior career

Cook participated in the

2014 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships The 2014 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships were held from 27 to 31 August 2014 in Maui, Hawaii, United States.

Maui The island of Maui (; Hawaiian: ) is the second-largest of the islands of the state of Hawaii at 727.2 square miles (1,883 km2) and is the 17th largest island in the United States. Maui is the largest of Maui County's four islands, which ...

, Hawaii. She won the gold medal in the 400 meter freestyle at the

2015 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships The 5th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships, were held on August 25–30, 2015, in Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about ...

in Singapore in a new Championships record. She also broke the Championships record in the 200 meter freestyle with her lead-off leg in the freestyle relay final. In that race she and her teammates broke the junior world record. Cook also won a silver medal in the 200 meter butterfly. In October 2015, Cook was named

Western Australian Institute of Sport The Western Australian Institute of Sport (WAIS) is an elite sports institute set up in 1983 by the Government of Western Australia to support athletes in Western Australia. Previously, if elite athletes from Western Australian needed to train or ...

's Junior Athlete of the Year. The following year, she was named WAIS Junior Athlete of the Year, for the second year defeating other young athletes including diver

Nikita Hains Nikita Hains (born 2 November 2000) is an Australian diver who competes in the 10m individual events, as well as the 10m synchronised. Early life Hains was born in Perth, Western Australia. She started out as a gymnast in her hometown of P ...

Senior career

In April 2016, Cook qualified for the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

in Rio de Janeiro in the 400-meter freestyle, which was her first Olympics. She finished 6th in the final. After a neck injury disqualified her from the

2018 Commonwealth Games The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that were held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, bet ...

, she retired from swimming in June 2018 to focus on her university studies.

Personal life

Cook moved from South Africa to

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

, Australia when she was 8. She qualified for an academic scholarship at

Perth Modern School , motto_translation = Knowledge is Power , location = Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia , country = Australia , coordinates = , mapframe-stroke-colour = #C60C30 , mapframe-marker-co ...

, but left after Year 8. She was attending

St Mark's Anglican Community School St Mark's Anglican Community School is an independent Anglican co-educational primary and secondary day school, located on an site on St. Mark's Drive, in the northern Perth, Western Australia suburb of Hillarys, Western Australia, on the for ...

until year 11. Cook moved to the

School of Isolated and Distance Education The School of Isolated and Distance Education (SIDE) is the main centre for Kindergarten to Year 12 distance education and online learning within the Western Australian Department of Education. It provides education for students who for various ...

in year 11 to focus on her swimming.

References

External links

* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, Tamsin 1998 births Living people Australian female freestyle swimmers Australian female butterfly swimmers South African emigrants to Australia Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers of Australia Olympic silver medalists for Australia Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists in swimming Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics 20th-century Australian women 21st-century Australian women