Sarah Price

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This article is about the swimmer. For the filmmaker see Sarah Price (filmmaker)

Medal record
Competitor for England & United Kingdom
Women's Swimming
European Championships (LC)
Bronze	1997 Seville	4x100m Medley
Commonwealth Games
Bronze	2002 Manchester	50m Backstroke
Gold	2002 Manchester	100m Backstroke
Gold	2002 Manchester	200m Backstroke
Bronze	2002 Manchester	4x100m Medley

Sarah Price (born April 19, 1979 in North London) is a former backstroke swimmer from the United Kingdom. She began her swimming career at the Potters Bar club, and turned professional aged fifteen. She set her first British record in 1997 in the 50 m backstroke. She also swam for Barnet Copthall Swimming Club, before ending her career at Loughborough University.

In 2001, at the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Riesa, Germany, Price set a world record in the 200 m backstroke winning gold.^[1] At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, she won gold medals in the 100 m and 200 m backstroke races,^[2] as well as picking up bronze in the 50 m race and the medley relay. Her chances of success at the 2004 Summer Olympics ended when she suffered a freak warm-up injury, cutting her leg on an underwater camera.^[3] Price retired in March 2005, and now runs her own swimming clinics.