TANCOCK RETAINS PRESTGIOUS BUSA AWARD
British Swimmer Liam Tancock has received the highest sporting
accolade awarded to an athlete competing while in Higher Education
when he was named British Universities Sports Assocaition
Sportsman of the Year on an International Stage.
The 22-year-old Loughborough University sports science student
received the BUSA award for the second year running after
an impressive 12 months that saw Tancock add to his ever-growing
list of achievements in the water.
Tancock is a British and Commonwealth Backstroke Record holder,
twice World Championship bronze medallist and Commonwealth
Champion, and is also no stranger to awards after collecting
the BBC (South West) Sportsperson of the Year 2006 and British
Swimming's Male Swimmer of the Year 2007.
The Exeter-born swimmer is coached by Ben Titley and will
be in action at the ASA National Championships (50m) in Sheffield
next month when Britain's best swimmers compete at Ponds Forge
(27th July to 1st August).
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