Mark Shipman
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Born | Leeds, West Yorkshire | 3 January 1973|||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mark Shipman (born 3 January 1973, in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England) is a male retired British diver. Mark attended Guiseley School. He is divorced with 2 teenage girls. Aeryn Anna Shipman and Anaïs Kirsten Shipman. Mark currently lives in South Africa and travels to the UK frequently.
Swimming career
Shipman has competed at European, World and Olympic levels on the 3 metre springboard. With Tony Ally he came 7th in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
He competed at four consecutive Commonwealth Games, which culminated in winning a silver medal in the 3 metres springboard synchronised event, at the 2006 Commonwealth Games for England.[1]
His club is City of Sheffield although he started diving with Bradford Esprit under the tutelage of Tom Daley's coach Andy Banks.
References
- ^ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation.
- Kubatko, Justin. "Mark Shipman Biography and Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
- 1973 births
- Living people
- English divers
- Olympic divers for Great Britain
- Divers at the 1994 Commonwealth Games
- Divers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Divers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Sheffield
- Commonwealth Games medallists in diving
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England
- Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in diving
- Sportspeople from Leeds
- British diving (sport) biography stubs
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