Hannah Louise Miley (born 8 August 1989) is a Scottish former competitive

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who specialised in the

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. Miley trained when she was younger at Inverurie Swimming Centre. She has represented Great Britain at three

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, reaching the final of the 400 metres individual medley on each occasion, finishing sixth in

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, fifth in

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and fourth in

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. Also in the 400 m individual medley, she is a former World short-course champion (

), European champion (

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), and two-time European short-course champion (

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and

) representing Great Britain, and a two-time

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champion (

and

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) representing Scotland.

Swimming career

She represented Scotland at the

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, winning a gold medal in the 400m individual medley. Miley represented

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in the 200m and 400m individual medley swimming events and represented

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in the 400m individual medley, attaining 5th place. In 2012, Miley became world and European 400 m individual medley short course champion. She became the first British swimmer to win three individual medals at a European Short Course Championships since

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. Miley then won two medals at the World Short Course Championships, which included the first world title of her career. In 2014, she retained her 400m individual medley title at the

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in Glasgow. At the Games, Miley reached seven finals and won two medals in total. Miley made her Arena Pro Swim Series debut in February 2015, winning gold in the 200 m freestyle and 400 m individual medley, and six medals in total. She added a further two medals in March 2017, including gold in her strongest event. Hannah Miley is currently supporting and is the face of the

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Free Kids Swim campaign. She was born in

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, Wiltshire, England, and, a few months after being born, moved to

Inverurie Inverurie (Scottish Gaelic: ''Inbhir Uraidh'' or ''Inbhir Uaraidh'', 'mouth of the River Ury') is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland at the confluence of the rivers Ury and Don, about north-west of Aberdeen. Geography Inverurie is in the vall ...

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where she attended

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before graduating from

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. Miley was an ambassador for the LEN Short Course Championships in Glasgow in 2019. Miley was appointed

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(MBE) in the

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for services to swimming and women in sport.

Personal bests and records held

References

External links

British Swimming athlete profileScottish Swimming athlete profileBritish Olympic Association athlete profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Miley, Hannah 1989 births Scottish female swimmers Female medley swimmers Female butterfly swimmers Olympic swimmers of Great Britain Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Scotland Sportspeople from Swindon People from Inverurie People educated at Inverurie Academy Alumni of Robert Gordon University Living people Scottish female freestyle swimmers World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Scotland Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming Sportspeople from Aberdeenshire Members of the Order of the British Empire Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games

Swimming career

Personal bests and records held

See also

References

External links