Tag: Hannah Miley

  • Hannah Miley chases Olympic medal dream

    Hannah Miley chases Olympic medal dream

    Hannah Miley hopes to make it third time lucky with a medal at next year’s Olympic Games in Rio. The European and Commonwealth 400m individual medley champion finished sixth on her Olympic debut at Beijing 2008 and was fifth at London 2012. “I’ve won a medal at every major championships there is for swimming but…

  • Hannah Miley to pass on Sports Personality of Year event in pursuit of more medals

    Hannah Miley to pass on Sports Personality of Year event in pursuit of more medals

    Hannah Miley, the two-time Olympian, is turning down tomorrow’s season’s glitzy BBC party in Glasgow to put on a show of her own in the Scottish capital at the Scottish Gas National Short Course Championships. The 25-year-old multiple Commonwealth champion was among several Scottish swimmers invited to the Sports Personality of the Year production at…

  • Hannah Miley talks about coming home

    Hannah Miley talks about coming home

    Smiley Hannah Miley has had a lot of success in her 25 years. Her most recent was at last month’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow where she won a gold medal in the 400m individual medley and a bronze in the 200m individual medley. But her achievements come at a price as she explained yesterday. Her medals, she said, make…

  • Hannah Miley re-lives her medal moment | Glasgow 2014 TV

    Hannah Miley re-lives her medal moment | Glasgow 2014 TV

    Hannah Miley raised the roof at Tollcross Thursday night when she won Gold in the 400m individual medley. Defending her title from Delhi 2010, Hannah describes just how important the crowd were in bringing her home to victory. In other news, Hannah’s dad and coach Patrick had to skip a large queue in order to…

  • Glasgow 2014: Hannah Miley eyes five Commonwealth Games events

    Read BBC Hannah Miley will attempt to record the times she needs to qualify for a further two Commonwealth Games events at next week’s British Championships. Miley has won five titles at the Scottish National Open Swimming Championships at Tollcross in Glasgow. But she did not post the 400m freestyle and 200m breaststroke marks needed…

  • British Swimming announces performance squads

    See swimming.org British Swimming has announced the Podium and Podium Potential squads of athletes who will receive direct support from UK Sport through the World Class Performance Programme for 2014. Sixty-two athletes across Podium (22) and Podium Potential (40) will receive targeted financial assistance through receipt of an Athlete Personal Award (APA) in addition to…

  • Fran Halsall to lead British challenge at Herning 2013 European Short Course Champs

    See swimming.org Halsall (British Gas ITC, Loughborough) will be joined by the likes of Jazz Carlin (British Gas ITC, Swansea), Andrew Willis (British Gas ITC, Bath), Hannah Miley (Garioch, Scotland) and Craig McNally (Warrender, Scotland) as part of an 11-strong team. “This is a team which is focused on athletes that we feel can deliver medals either today or in the near future,”…

  • Europe vs USA 2013 Duel in the Pool teams revealed

    See for instance swimming.org Olympic medallist Michael Jamieson and World Championship medallist Fran Halsall will lead the European challenge at the 2013 Duel in the Pool when the continent’s best swimmers go head-to-head with world number one swimming nation the USA. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Britain will be French Olympic champions Florent Manaudou, Yannick Agnel and Fabien…

  • Portrait of Hannah Miley unveiled in Aberdeen

    Read for instance BBC and RGU Robert Gordon University (RGU) commissioned the portrait to mark Hannah’s success in the pool and invited Aberdeen painter and Gray’s School of Art graduate Stuart Allan to work on the project. The painting, measuring almost two metres square, captures Hannah poised to dive into a swimming pool. It was unveiled…