Christopher Anthony Cook (born 5 May 1979) is an English former competitive swimmer who swam for Great Britain in the Olympics, world championships and European championships, and competed for England in the Commonwealth Games. Cook specialises in the breaststroke, and took gold in the 50 and 100 metre finals representing

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at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in

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. He has also competed for

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. Living in

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, he was coached by Ian Oliver at the City of

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Swimming Club. He competed at the Olympic Games in 2004 and

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Personal bests and records held

References

External links

British Swimming athlete profileBritish Olympic Association athlete profileCook's bio
from the 2008 Olympics. He is currently on a UK school tour. 1979 births Living people Sportspeople from South Shields English male swimmers British male breaststroke swimmers Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Great Britain Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming Universiade medalists in swimming Universiade silver medalists for Great Britain Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games {{UK-swimming-bio-stub