Annabelle Cripps
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| Full name | Annabelle Mary Cripps | |||||||||||||||||
| National team | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 February 1968 Madison, Wisconsin, US | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 66 kg (146 lb; 10.4 st) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | Wigan Swim Club | |||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Texas (US) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Annabelle Mary Cripps (born 16 February 1968) Olympian (1984 & 1988) / Author: Rescue Me: A Powerful Memoir By An Olympian, represented Great Britain at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1984. At her 1984 Summer Games Olympic debut in Los Angeles, she placed sixth in the women's 4×100-metre freestyle relay, followed by finishing 14th in the women's 800-metre freestyle and then 15th in the 200-metre freestyle four years later at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.
She represented England and won two silver medals at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland, in the 4×100 metres and the 4×200 metres freestyle relay.
She is 14 times All-American honors swimmer at the University of Texas at Austin participated on three consecutive NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships 1986, 1987, 1988.
In 2006, Annabelle Cripps changed her name to Katherine Starr. Katherine started Safe4Athletes in 2012 a non-profit dedicated to addressing sexual abuse in sport. Published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine - International Olympic Committee consensus statement: harassment and abuse (non-accidental violence) in sport
Katherine Starr is the author of the book published in 2022 - Rescue Me: A Powerful Memoir By An Olympian. Press Release for the book
Katherine is currently an Expert Witness for Athlete Sexual Abuse. Through her expertise, she has opined on over twenty cases with record-breaking settlements.[citation needed]
Swimming career
[edit]1984 Olympics
[edit]Cripps represented Great Britain at the 1984 Summer Olympics where she finished 15th in the 200 m freestyle,[1] 14th in the 800 m freestyle[2] and then 6th as part of the British team in the 4×100 m freestyle relay.[3]
1986 Commonwealth Games
[edit]She represented England and won two silver medals in the 4 x 100 metres and 4 x 200 metres freestyle relay, at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Scotland.[4][5]
1988 Olympics
[edit]Cripps once again represented Great Britain at the 1988 Summer Olympics where she finished 27th in the 50 m freestyle,[6] 25th in the 100 m freestyle,[7] 21st in the 100 m butterfly[8] and then 10th as part of the British team in the 4×100 freestyle relay.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Olympedia – 200 metres Freestyle, Women". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
- ^ "Olympedia – 800 metres Freestyle, Women". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
- ^ "Olympedia – 4 x 100 metres Freestyle Relay, Women". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
- ^ "1986 Athletes". Team England.
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- ^ "Olympedia – 50 metres Freestyle, Women". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
- ^ "Olympedia – 100 metres Freestyle, Women". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
- ^ "Olympedia – 100 metres Butterfly, Women". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
- ^ "Olympedia – 4 x 100 metres Freestyle Relay, Women". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
- British Olympic Association athlete profile
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Annabelle Cripps". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
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