Georgina Lee

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Georgina Lee

Personal information

Full name

Georgina Anne Lee

National team

Great Britain

Born

14 August 1981
Birmingham, England

Height

1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)

Weight

62 kg (137 lb; 9.8 st)

Sport

Swimming

Strokes

Freestyle, butterfly

Club

Camp Hill Edwardians

College team

Southern Methodist University

Medal record

Women's swimming
Competitor for Great Britain
European Championships (SC)
	2001 Antwerp	200 m butterfly
Competitor for England
Commonwealth Games
	2002 Manchester	4×200 m freestyle
	2002 Manchester	200 m butterfly
	2002 Manchester	4×100 m medley

Georgina Anne Lee (born 14 August 1981) is an English former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics and European championships, and competed for England in the Commonwealth Games.

Lee won gold, silver, and bronze medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. She was also a bronze medallist at the European SC Championships in 2001.

Lee represented Great Britain at both the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. In Sydney she reached the semifinal in the 200-metre butterfly, breaking the British Record and finishing in 10th place. In Athens she reached the semifinal in the 200-metre butterfly, again finishing in 10th place, and she reached the final in both the 4×100-metre medley relay and the 4×200-metre freestyle relay. She also competed in the 100-metre butterfly but did not progress beyond the heats.

Lee set 14 British records between 2000 and 2004, and won the British Championships 14 times in the 100- and 200-metre butterfly events.

Attending Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, between 2001 and 2004, Lee won two titles at the U.S. National Championships in 2003. She was also champion and runner-up at the NCAA national collegiate championships, and she was awarded an NCAA postgraduate scholarship upon graduation.

Personal life

Lee was born the youngest of 6 children and was educated at King Edward VI High School For Girls in Birmingham. In 1999 her father, Malcolm Lee, died from a heart attack.^[1] In 2003 her brother, Adrian Lee, died in a suspected suicide from an overdose of prescribed pills for depression. Lee did not talk publicly about her brother's death until a year later, when she gave an interview in April 2004 to Craig Lord of The Times.^[2]

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