Mark Shipman
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| Born | 3 January 1973 Leeds, West Yorkshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | City of Sheffield | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mark Shipman (born 3 January 1973, in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England) is a male retired British diver. Mark attended Guiseley School. He is divorced with 2 teenage girls. Aeryn Anna Shipman and Anaïs Kirsten Shipman. Mark currently lives in South Africa and travels to the UK frequently.
Swimming career
[edit]Shipman has competed at European, World and Olympic levels on the 3 metre springboard. With Tony Ally he came 7th in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
He competed at four consecutive Commonwealth Games, which culminated in winning a silver medal in the 3 metres springboard synchronised event, at the 2006 Commonwealth Games for England.[1]
His club is City of Sheffield although he started diving with Bradford Esprit under the tutelage of Tom Daley's coach Andy Banks.
References
[edit]- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- Kubatko, Justin. "Mark Shipman Biography and Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
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