Nicole Livingstone

Nicole Livingstone
Personal information
Full name Nicole Dawn Livingstone
Nationality  Australia
Born 24 June 1971 (1971-06-24) (age 40)
Melbourne, Victoria
Height 5'9" (174 cm)
Weight 143 lbs (65 kg)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Stroke(s) backstroke

Nicole Dawn Livingstone OAM (born 24 June 1971) is a retired Australian Olympic swimmer and a television sports commentator and radio presenter. 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 and presenter on Network Ten. She was born in Melbourne, Victoria.

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 held the Australian record for the 200 m backstroke, with at time of 2:10.20, set on 31 July 1992 at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain for 16 years. Meagen Nay broke the Australian record twice at the 2008 Australian Olympic Trials. 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.

She worked for Wide World of Sports as a host of the self titled program and as a host of Sports Saturday. She was host of Any Given Sunday with Mick Molloy in 2006.

In March 2007, Livingstone was appointed the sports presenter on Nine News PM Edition. She was replaced by Tim Sheridan.

In November 2008, Livingstone resigned from the Nine Network to work for Network Ten's new sports channel One HD which commenced in 2009. Livingstone's final appearance on the Nine Network was on Nine's Wide World of Sport.

In 2011, Livingstone has been a fill in presenter on Network Ten's Sports Tonight, a panellist on Thursday Night Live, sports presenter on Melbourne's Weekend Ten Evening News and also a fill in presenter for Carrie Bickmore on The 7PM Project.

Notable races

References

  1. ^ "Nicole Stevenson". Australian Honours Database. http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=887506&search_type=simple&showInd=true. Retrieved 2007-01-03. 

External links

  • 1930 – 1934: 100 yards
  • 1938 – 1966: 110 yards
  • 1970 – 2010: 100 metres
  • 1962 – 1966: 220 yards
  • 1970 – 2010: 200 metres