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 Swimming Baths in Adlington's hometown of Mansfield, where she began swimming as a child was renamed the "Rebecca Adlington Swimming Centre" when it reopened after refurbishment in January 2010. The Yates Bar in Mansfield was renamed the "Adlington Arms" in her honour, although it soon reverted to its original name. In November 2008, Adlington was named as the Sports Journalists' Association's Sportswoman of the Year, receiving her trophy at a ceremony in the City of London from HRH The Princess Royal, herself a former winner of that award. On 14 December 2008, she was voted third in the BBC Sports