Cassie Patten
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| Full name | Cassandra Patten | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||
| Born | 1 January 1987 Cardinham, United Kingdom |
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||
| Stroke(s) | Freestyle | ||||||||||||
| Club | Stockport Metro | ||||||||||||
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Cassandra ('Cassie') Lily Patten (born 1 January 1987 at Cardinham, Cornwall, United Kingdom)[1][2] is a British freestyle swimmer.
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[edit] Early life
Cassie's first swimming club was Bodmin and District in Cornwall where she trained under the coaches Phil Goldman and Joe Dixon, she then attended Plymouth College as a swimming scholar from the age of 11 to 18 where she was the house captain of Chaytor's House. Cassie was coached in the highly successful Plymouth Leander Swimming [1] programme at this time.
[edit] Swimming career
At the British Championships in 2006 she won a bronze in the 400 m and a silver in the 800 m. At the British Championships in 2007 she won a bronze in the 400 m freestyle and a silver in the 200 m butterfly. In her third year at the championships she won silver in the 800 m freestyle.[2]
She won a silver medal in the 10 km freestyle at the 2007 World championship at only three seconds behind Larisa Ilchenko, the gold medallist.[1][2] Patten represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 800 m freestyle and also in the 10 km open water swimming event, where she won a bronze medal.
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Athlete Profile". British Olympic Association. http://www.olympics.org.uk/beijing2008/AthleteProfile.aspx?id=6650. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
- ^ a b c "Cassandra Patten". British Swimming. Archived from the original on 27 June 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080627044122/http://www.britishswimming.org/vsite/vcontent/page/custom/0,8510,5157-182769-199987-42391-268536-custom-item,00.html. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
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