Jean Jeavons

Jean Jeavons

Personal information
Full name	Jean Anne Jeavons
National team	United Kingdom
Born	(1956-05-22) 22 May 1956 (age 68)
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	57 kg (126 lb; 9.0 st)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Butterfly
Club	Sudbury District Swimming Club

Jean Anne Jeavons (born 22 May 1956) is a female English former competition swimmer.

Early life

She swam in the Grantham swimming gala,[1] and lived in Gunby, South Kesteven in 1969, by 1969 she was winning national championships.[2] She attended the Charles Read School.[3] She could not compete for Leicestershire as she lived in Gunby,[4] so by early 1970 her family moved to Buckminster in Leicestershire. By 1970 she attended Melton Upper School.[5]

She trained at pools in Melton (mostly) and Grantham and Leicester.[6] In early 1972, Melton pool closed for repairs, so most training was at Grantham, four mornings a week; other pools had closed for power cuts.[7][8] Buckminster wanted to raise £500 for her expenses.[9] By July 1972 Buckminster and Sewstern had raised £700. Buckminster Trust Estate gave the fund £100.[10] In July 1972 she was selected for Olympics, under coach Hammie Bland.[11]

Swimming career

Jeavons swam the Butterfly Stroke for Great Britain and the Melton Mowbray Swimming Club [12] where she became the county champion and broke the county record which remains to this day.^[citation needed]

She represented Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich [13] competing in the women's 100- and 200-metre butterfly, and 4×100-metre medley relay, and came 20th,[14] 9th,[15] and 10th,[16] respectively, missing out on a place in the 200-metre final by a single place and less than a second.[17] On 4 September 1972, she took part in the 4 x 100 relay with Pamela Bairstow, Dorothy Harrison and Lesley Allardice who set a British record, but never reached the final.[18][19]

She represented England in the 100 and 200 metres butterfly events, at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand.[20][21][22] At the ASA National British Championships she won the 100 metres butterfly title in 1971 and 1972 [23][24] and the 200 metres butterfly title in 1972 and 1973.[25][26]

Personal life

She now lives in Dedham, Essex.

See also

• Sport in Leicester

References

1. Grantham Journal Friday 25 July 1969, page 13
2. Grantham Journal Friday 17 October 1969, page 19
3. Grantham Journal Friday 24 October 1969, page 16
4. Grantham Journal Friday 7 November 1969, page 18
5. Leicester Mercury Wednesday 28 April 1971, page 19
6. Grantham Journal Friday 29 October 1971, page 6
7. Leicester Mercury Wednesday 23 February 1972, page 28
8. Leicester Mercury Saturday 1 July 1972, page 20
9. Leicester Mercury Saturday 1 April 1972, page 15
10. Leicester Mercury Monday 10 July 1972, page 7
11. Leicester Chronicle Friday 18 August 1972, page 11
12. "Melton Swimming Club History". Retrieved 27 May 2012.
13. "Great Britain Swimming at the 1972 München Summer Games". Archived from the original on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
14. "Women's 100 metres Butterfly". Archived from the original on 20 July 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
15. "Women's 200 metres Butterfly". Archived from the original on 17 February 2011. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
16. "Women's 4 × 100 metres Medley Relay". Archived from the original on 5 June 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
17. "Women's 200 metres Butterfly Round One". Archived from the original on 8 November 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
18. Leicester Mercury Monday 4 September 1972, page 32
19. Leicester Mercury Monday 17 July 1972, page 17
20. "1974 Games". Team England.
21. "Athletes, 1974 England team". Team England.
22. "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
23. "Fox, Norman. "Swimming." Times, 9 Aug. 1971, p. 9". Times Digital Archive.
24. "Fox, Norman. "ASA seek to add 13 to team for Munich." Times, 17 July 1972, p. 8". Times Digital Archive.
25. "Fox, Norman. "Britain narrowing the gap." Times, 15 July 1972, p. 5". Times Digital Archive.
26. "Fox, Norman. "Swimming." Times, 4 Aug. 1973, p. 10". Times Digital Archive.

External links

• Melton Mowbray Swimming Club