Jemma Lowe
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| Full name | Jemma Louise Lowe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Great Britain
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31 March 1990 Hartlepool, England, United Kingdom |
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| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Swansea Intensive Training Centre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Florida (U.S.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jemma Louise Lowe (born 31 March 1990) is a British international butterfly swimmer and British record holder. She has competed for Wales in the Commonwealth Games, and was a member of Great Britain's 2008 and 2012 Olympic teams.
Lowe was born in Hartlepool, England, United Kingdom. Educated in Hartlepool, she attended High Tunstall College of Science followed by English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College.
She accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, United States, where she swam for coach Gregg Troy's Florida Gators swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition in 2009 and 2010. She won three Southeastern Conference individual championships in butterfly events, and received eight All-American honors in two college seasons. After the 2010 college season, she returned to Britain, where she is currently based at the Swansea Intensive Training Centre in Wales with coach Bud McAllister, mentor to the triple Olympic champion of 1988, Janet Evans.
Lowe competed for Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing in two individual events, as well a British relay team. She finished sixth in the 100-metre butterfly final with a time of 58.06, and reached the semi-finals of the 200-metre butterfly, coming ninth with a time of 2:07.87. She was also a member of the British 4x100-metre medley relay team that came fourth in a European record time of 3:57.50.
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