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Hannah Miley

Scottish swimmer

Not to be confused with singer/actress Miley Cyrus and the Disney Channel character Hannah Montana, which Cyrus portrays on the TV show of the same name.Women's swimmingRepresenting Great BritainWorld Championships (LC) 2011 Shanghai 400 m medley 2009 Rome 4×200 m freestyleWorld Championships (SC) 2012 Istanbul 400 m medley 2008 Manchester 400 m medley 2008 Manchester 200 m medley 2012 Istanbul 200 m medley 2014 Doha 400 m medleyEuropean Championships (LC) 2010 Budapest 400 m medley 2016 London400:m medley 2010 Budapest 200 m medley 2010 Budapest 4×200 m freestyle 2016 London200:m medley 2018 Glasgow 400:m medleyEuropean Championships (SC) 2009 Istanbul 400 m medley 2012 Chartres 400 m medley 2011 Szczecin 400 m medley 2012 Chartres 800 m freestyle 2012 Chartres 200 m medley 2015 Netanya 400 m medley 2009 Istanbul 200 m medley 2011 Szczecin 200 m medleyWorld Cup (SC) 2007 Sydney 400 m medley 2013 Singapore 400 m medley 2013 Beijing 400 m medley 2016 Moscow 800 m freestyle 2012 Stockholm 200 m freestyle 2012 Stockholm 400 m medley 2016 Berlin 400 m medleyEuropean Junior Championships 2005 Budapest 400 m medleyRepresenting :ScotlandCommonwealth Games 2010 Delhi 400 m medley 2014 Glasgow 400 m medley 2018 Gold Coast 400 m medley 2014 Glasgow 200 m medleyCommonwealth Youth Games 2004 Bendigo 400 m medley 2004 Bendigo 200 m butterfly 2004 Bendigo 4×100 m freestyle

Hannah Louise Miley (born 8 August 1989) is a Scottish former compe*ive swimmer who specialised in the Individual Medley. Miley trained when she was younger at Inverurie Swimming Centre. She has represented Great Britain at three Olympic Games, reaching the final of the 400 metres individual medley on each occasion, finishing sixth in 2008, fifth in 2012 and fourth in 2016. Also in the 400 m individual medley, she is a former World short-course champion (2012), European champion (2010), and two-time European short-course champion (2009 and 2012) representing Great Britain, and a two-time Commonwealth champion (2010 and 2014) representing Scotland.

Contents

  • 1 Swimming career
  • 2 Personal bests and records held
  • 3 See also
  • 4 References
  • 5 External links

Swimming career

She represented Scotland at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, winning a gold medal in the 400m individual medley.

Miley represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 200m and 400m individual medley swimming events and represented Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the 400m individual medley, attaining 5th place.

In 2012, Miley became world and European 400 m individual medley short course champion. She became the first British swimmer to win three individual medals at a European Short Course Championships since Sue Rolph in 1999. Miley then won two medals at the World Short Course Championships, which included the first world *le of her career.

In 2014, she retained her 400m individual medley *le at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. At the Games, Miley reached seven finals and won two medals in total.

Miley made her Arena Pro Swim Series debut in February 2015, winning gold in the 200 m freestyle and 400 m individual medley, and six medals in total. She added a further two medals in March 2017, including gold in her strongest event.

Hannah Miley is currently supporting and is the face of the Kellogg's Free Kids Swim campaign.

She was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, and, a few months after being born, moved to Inverurie, Scotland where she attended Inverurie Academy before graduating from Robert Gordon University.

Miley was an amb*ador for the LEN Short Course Championships in Glasgow in 2019.

Personal bests and records held

See also

  • List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)
  • List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (women)

References

    External links

    • British Swimming athlete profile
    • Scottish Swimming athlete profile
    • British Olympic *ociation athlete profile