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Adam Paul Faulkner (born 26 November 1981) is an English former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games and competed for England in the Commonwealth Games. Faulkner specialised in long-distance freestyle events. He won a bronze medal, as a member of England swimming team, at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, with a final time of 7:22.56.
Faulkner is a member of Nova Centurion Swimming Club in his home city of Nottingham under his coach Bill Furniss, who also trains with Rebecca Adlington.
Faulkner made his official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he competed in the men's 1500 m freestyle. Swimming in heat five, he rounded out the field to last place and twenty-ninth overall on the morning prelims with a time of 15:39.86.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Faulkner swam the 400 m freestyle. He finished first ahead of Graeme Smith from the Olympic trials, in a personal best and an A-standard entry time of 3:49.97. Faulkner challenged seven other swimmers on the fifth heat, including former finalists Grant Hackett of Australia and Dragoş Coman of Romania. He came in only 0.24 of a second behind Coman.
See also
List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (men)
References
External links
Adam Faulkner at World Aquatics
Adam Faulkner at the British Amateur Swimming Federation at the Wayback Machine (archived 20 September 2005)
Adam Faulkner at Olympics.com Adam Faulkner at Olympic.org (archived)
Adam Faulkner at Olympedia (archive)
Adam Faulkner at Team GB