Mansfield which competes as Nova Centurion. The Sherwood Swimming Baths adjacent to the former Sherwood Colliery was refurbished and opened in January 2010 as the "Rebecca Adlington Swimming Centre". The 25-metre pool was widened at the expense of losing the tiered public seating and has a new, small, endless stroke-improvement training pool with variable-resistance water flow. The complex uses a ground-source heat pump backed by a biomass boiler burning wood pellets prepared from waste by a local wood yard, to reduce its carbon footprint. At the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, a Mansfield contestant, Rebecca Adlington, won two gold medals, for 400
Rebecca Adlington She was the first British swimmer to win more than one gold medal at a single Olympic Games since Henry Taylor won three in 1908. In 2009, Adlington admitted she suffered with the expectation placed on her ahead of the World Aquatics Championships in Rome, and although she swam a personal best she was only able to win bronze in the 400-metre freestyle. She added a second bronze in the 4×200-metre freestyle. In her favourite event, the 800-metre freestyle she missed out on a chance for a medal and came fourth. In 2010, Adlington won the 400-metre freestyle at the