Nicole Livingstone

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Olympic medal record
Women's Swimming
Bronze Barcelona 1992 200m Backstroke
Bronze Atlanta 1996 4x200m Freestyle Relay
Silver Atlanta 1996 4x100m Medley Relay

Nicole Dawn Livingstone OAM (born June 24, 1971) is a former Olympic swimmer and a television sports commentator and radio presenter in Australia. Livingstone competed for Australia in three summer Olympics - 1988, 1992, and 1996 - winning both individual and team medals. She retired from swimming after the 1996 Olympics (Atlanta, Georgia, USA) and joined the Australian sports network Nine Network as a host of Nine's Wide World of Sport, and a commentator for swimming. Livingstone is currently a radio presenter for Melbourne station SEN 1116.

Livingstone is active in promoting drug-free sports in Australia. She is involved in the Australian Olympic Committee's "Live Clean, Play Clean" anti-doping education program. She is also a board member of the Australian Sports Drug Agency (ASDA), whose mission is to combat drug use in sports.

Livingstone still holds the Australian record for the 200 m backstroke, with at time of 2:10.20, set on July 31, 1992 at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Notably, she is the only Australian swimmer to have competed in six successive Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.

She was awarded the Order of Australia Medal on 9 June 1997 for service to swimming as a representative at state, national and international levels.[1]

She was known for a period as Nicole Stevenson, when she was married to Australian cyclist Clayton Stevenson.

[edit] Notable races

  • 1991 FINA World Championships (Perth), 4x100 medley relay, 2nd place Australia (with Linley Frame, Susie O'Neill, Karen Van Wirdum)
  • 1992, 200 m backstroke, set world short course record, Melbourne.
  • 1992 Summer Olympics, 200 m backstroke, Bronze medal.
  • 1996 Summer Olympics, 4 x 200 m freestyle relay, Bronze medal (with Julie Greville, Emma Johnson, Susan O'Neill)
  • 1996 Summer Olympics, 4 x 100 m medley relay, Silver medal (with Samantha Riley, Susan O'Neill, Sarah Ryan)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Nicole Stevenson. Australian Honours Database. Retrieved on January 3, 2007.

[edit] External links

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