Rebecca Adlington OBE (born 17 February 1989) is an English former competitive swimmer who specialised in freestyle events in international competition...

hardware in a national record of 8:18.76. Meanwhile, Great Britain's Rebecca Adlington, the reigning Olympic champion, tried to hold on with Ledecky earlier...

Beijing National Aquatics Center in Beijing, China. Great Britain's Rebecca Adlington broke one of the oldest world records in the book to claim a second...

record of 4:01.77 in the process of winning silver. Great Britain's Rebecca Adlington struggled through the race in her Olympic title defense, but brought...

of three medals set by UK Sport. The most successful swimmer was Rebecca Adlington who won two gold medals. Her 400 m freestyle success was Britain's...

Championships. Peaty is one of only six British swimmers, with David Wilkie, Rebecca Adlington, James Guy, Duncan Scott, and Tom Dean to have won gold medals at...

8:14.63, the then second-fastest effort of all time just behind Rebecca Adlington's world record of 8:14.10 set in 2008. In addition, she broke Janet...

2024 is the narrowest winning margin for this event in the Olympics. Rebecca Adlington became Great Britain's first female gold medalist in swimming in 48...

by the benefit of a sterling long-distance freestyle double from Rebecca Adlington. A total of 25 world records and 65 Olympic records were set during...

prelims, taking 1.24 seconds off the standard set by Great Britain's Rebecca Adlington in a since-banned high-tech bodysuit in Beijing eight years earlier...