Kiera Aitken
Appearance
Personal information | |
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Full name | Kiera Aitken |
Nationality | Bermuda |
Born | Devonshire, Bermuda | 31 October 1983
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Backstroke |
College team | Dalhousie University |
Kiera Aitken (born 31 October 1983)[1] is an Olympic and national-record holding swimmer from Bermuda.[2] She is one of Bermuda's most successful swimmers,[3] and has twice been named Bermuda's Female Athlete of the Year (for 2004 and 2009).[4] She carried Bermuda's flag at the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
She has swum for Bermuda at:
- Olympics: 2004, 2008
- Commonwealth Games: 2006, 2010
- World Championships: 2007, 2009
- Pan American Games: 2003, 2007
She swam in college at Canada's Dalhousie University.[5]
References
- ^ Aitken entry from Sports-Reference.com; retrieved 2010-12/6.
- ^ Kiera Aitken bio page Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine from the website of Bermuda'd Department of Youth, Sport and Recreation; retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ^ Bermudian Profiles: Kiera Aitken from Bernews; retrieved 2010-12.06.
- ^ Bermuda Athletes of the Year from Bernews; retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ^ Living the Olympic dream by Keri Irwin, Dal News. Published 2005-01-26, retrieved 2010-12-06.
Categories:
- 1983 births
- Living people
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Swimmers at the 2011 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games competitors for Bermuda
- Bermudian female swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of Bermuda
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Bermuda
- Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Dalhousie University alumni
- People from Devonshire Parish
- North American swimming biography stubs
- Bermudian sportspeople stubs