Rebecca Adlington Rebecca Adlington Rebecca Adlington, OBE (born 17 February 1989) is a British former competitive swimmer who specialized in freestyle events in international competition. She won two gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 400-metre freestyle and 800-metre freestyle, breaking the 19-year-old world record of Janet Evans in the 800-metre final. Adlington was Britain's first Olympic swimming champion since 1988, and the first British swimmer to win two Olympic gold medals since 1908. She won bronze medals in both the women's 400-metre and 800-metre freestyle events in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. On 5 February 2013, Adlington retired
Rebecca Adlington Personality of the Year award. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours. One of the Southeastern Class 395 high-speed trains, which are used domestically to provide a 140-mph London-to-Kent link and provided the "Javelin" shuttle service for visitors to the 2012 London Olympic Games, was named after Adlington. Several other British Olympians also received this honour. On 25 March, 17 April and 22 May 2014, Rebecca was a guest panellist on the ITV lunchtime chat show "Loose Women". She was one of the contestants in Series 3 of "The