Siobhan-Marie O'Connor (born 29 November 1995) is a former English competitive

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 ...

who has represented Great Britain at the Olympic Games, the

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and the LEN European Aquatics Championships, and England at the

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the ex ...

. A specialist in the 200 metres individual medley, she is the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games champion in the event, and has won silver medals in the same event at the

2016 Summer Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...

, the

2015 World Aquatics Championships The 16th FINA World Championships (russian: Чемпионат мира по водным видам спорта 2015), also Aquatics 2015, were held in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015. Russia hosted this event for the first time. ...

2016 European Aquatics Championships The 2016 European Aquatics Championships took place from 9 to 22 May 2016 in London, United Kingdom, in the London Aquatics Centre. It was the thirty second edition of the event, and the second held in the same year as a Summer Olympics. Hosts G ...

, the 2014 World Short-Course Championships and the 2013 and 2015 European Short Course Championships – on each occasion behind World and Olympic champion

Katinka Hosszú Katinka Hosszú (; born 3 May 1989) is a Hungarian competitive swimmer specialized in individual medley events. She is a three-time Olympic champion and a nine-time long-course world champion. She is owner of a Budapest based swim school and swi ...

. With six Commonwealth Games medals in total from 2014, O'Connor was England's most decorated athlete at those Games. In addition, O'Connor swam the butterfly leg for Great Britain in the non-Olympic 4 x 100-metre mixed medley relay that won gold at the 2015 FINA World Aquatics Championships in a world record time for the event. she has also won gold medals in 2016 at the European Championships in the same event, and in the women's 4 x 100 metres medley relay. O'Connor first competed for Great Britain at the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, th ...

in the 100m breaststroke event. She holds the British records for 200 metres individual medley, the 100 breaststroke and the 4 x 100-metre mixed medley relay. O'Connor announced her retirement from competitive swimming on 16 June 2021, following a long battle with

ulcerative colitis Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a long-term condition that results in inflammation and ulcers of the colon and rectum. The primary symptoms of active disease are abdominal pain and diarrhea mixed with blood (hematochezia). Weight loss, fever, and ...

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O'Connor attended St. Gregory's Catholic College in

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. She missed her prom to compete in the qualifying meet for the 2012 London Olympics. In 2015, Siobhan was at a Team Bath warm weather training camp at Northern Arizona University at the same time four students were shot by a freshman following an altercation outside a fraternity house, leaving one dead and three wounded. O'Connor has

, a type of

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* * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:OConnor, Siobhan-Marie 1995 births Living people Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England English female swimmers Olympic swimmers for Great Britain Sportspeople from Bath, Somerset Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2018 Commonwealth Games World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) World record setters in swimming Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists in swimming Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games

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