Nancy Sweetnam
Appearance
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Full name | Nancy Sweetnam | |||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Lindsay, Ontario | August 14, 1973|||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Medley | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Lindsay Lightingbolts | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Nancy Sweetnam (born August 14, 1973) is a Canadian former competition swimmer who swam primarily in medley events. Sweetnam represented Canada in two consecutive Summer Olympics.
At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, she finished in seventh place in the women's 200-metre individual medley, and thirteenth in the 400-metre individual medley. Four years later at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States, she ended up in eleventh position in the 400-metre individual medley, after winning the silver medal in the same event at the 1995 FINA Short Course World Championships in Rio de Janeiro.
She is a cousin of Canadian pop-rock singer-songwriter Skye Sweetnam.
References
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- 1973 births
- Living people
- Canadian female medley swimmers
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- Olympic swimmers of Canada
- Sportspeople from Kawartha Lakes
- Sportspeople from Ontario
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Canada
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Canada
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Canada
- Swimmers at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
- Universiade medalists in swimming
- Canadian swimming biography stubs