Janine Belton
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Full name | Janine Claire Belton | ||||||||||||||
National team | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||
Born | (1979-11-23) 23 November 1979 (age 44) Bradford, England | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 56 kg (123 lb; 8.8 st) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||
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Janine Claire Belton (born 23 November 1979), is an English former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain at the Olympics and FINA world championships, and competed for England at the Commonwealth Games, during the 1990s and early 2000s.
Belton is best known for winning a gold medal at the 2001 FINA World Championships as a member of the first-place British women's 4×200-metre freestyle relay team alongside Nicola Jackson, Karen Legg and Karen Pickering.
She represented Great Britain at the 1996 and 2000 Olympic Games, in both instances as a member of the British women's 4×200-metre freestyle relay squad. In 1996 she swam in the preliminary heats of the 4x200-metre relay; in 2000 she swam in the heats and event final as a member of Britain's sixth-place team. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, she represented England while competing in the women's 200-metre freestyle.
At the British short course national championships in 2001, Karen Legg, Belton, Nicola Jackson and Karen Pickering set a new short course world record of 7:47.14 in the 4x200-metre freestyle relay.
See also
References
- "Janine Belton athlete profile". British Olympic Association. Retrieved 19 March 2009.
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- 1991: Kerstin Kielgass, Manuela Stellmach, Dagmar Hase, Stephanie Ortwig (GER)
- 1994: Le Ying, Yang Aihua, Zhou Guanbin, Lü Bin (CHN)
- 1998: Franziska van Almsick, Dagmar Hase, Silvia Szalai, Kerstin Kielgass (GER)
- 2001: Nicola Jackson, Janine Belton, Karen Legg, Karen Pickering (GBR)
- 2003: Lindsay Benko, Rachel Komisarz, Rhi Jeffrey, Diana Munz (USA)
- 2005: Natalie Coughlin, Katie Hoff, Whitney Myers, Kaitlin Sandeno (USA)
- 2007: Natalie Coughlin, Dana Vollmer, Lacey Nymeyer, Katie Hoff (USA)
- 2009: Yang Yu, Zhu Qianwei, Liu Jing, Pang Jiaying (CHN)
- 2011: Missy Franklin, Dagny Knutson, Katie Hoff, Allison Schmitt (USA)
- 2013: Katie Ledecky, Shannon Vreeland, Karlee Bispo, Missy Franklin (USA)
- 2015: Missy Franklin, Leah Smith, Katie McLaughlin, Katie Ledecky (USA)
- 2017: Leah Smith, Mallory Comerford, Melanie Margalis, Katie Ledecky (USA)
- 2019: Ariarne Titmus, Madison Wilson, Brianna Throssell, Emma McKeon (AUS)
- 2022: Claire Weinstein, Leah Smith, Katie Ledecky, Bella Sims (USA)
- 2023: Mollie O'Callaghan, Shayna Jack, Brianna Throssell, Ariarne Titmus (AUS)
- 2024: Ai Yanhan, Gong Zhenqi, Li Bingjie, Yang Peiqi (CHN)
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