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| Full name | Linda Amos | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1946-06-22) 22 June 1946 (age 78) Portsmouth, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb; 11.5 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Linda Amos (born 22 June 1946), later known by her married name Linda Skirton, is a British former competitive swimmer and freestyle specialist who represented Great Britain in the Olympics and European championships, and swam for England in the Commonwealth Games.
Career
Amos won a silver medal in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay as a member of the second-place British women's team at the 1962 European Aquatics Championships, and a bronze medal as part of the English team in the 4×110-yard freestyle relay at the 1962 Commonwealth Games. She also competed in the preliminary heats of the women's 100-metre freestyle at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Coaching
After retiring from competition swimming, she moved into coaching, and currently coaches at junior level at Millfield Preparatory School.
References
- "Great Britain Swimming at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games". Sports Reference. 11 October 1964. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
- EUROPEAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS (WOMEN). gbrathletics.com
- Commonwealth Games Records. thecgf.com
- Linda Amos. sports-reference.com
- "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- "1962 Athletes". Team England.
- Millfield Prep Sport - Swimming Archived 2012-07-30 at the Wayback Machine. millfieldprep.com
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- 1946 births
- Living people
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- British female freestyle swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for Great Britain
- Sportspeople from Portsmouth
- Swimmers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for England
- Swimmers at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
- English female freestyle swimmers
- 20th-century English sportswomen
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