SHORTMAN Kate

Great Britain

Artistic Swimming

Date of Birth: 19 Nov 2001

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Olympic Scholarship

Height (m/ft): 1.64/5'4''

Place of birth: BRISTOL

Birth Country:

Great Britain

Place of residence : BRISTOL

Residence Country:

Great Britain

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Artistic Swimming	Duet GBR Great Britain	14

Schedule

Change

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Duet Free Routine Preliminary	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Duet Technical Routine	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Athlete:

World Championships

Year	Location	Solo TR	Solo FR	Duet TR	Duet FR
2019	Gwangju, KOR	10th (83.954)	11th (84.766)	PR (83.590)	PR (83.800)
2017	Budapest, HUN	-	12th (82.366)	-	PR (82.566)

European Championships

Year	Location	Solo TR	Solo FR	Duet TR	Duet FR	Team TR	Team FR	FR Combination
2020	Budapest, HUN	-	6th (86.000)	7th (84.924)	7th (85.800)	-	-	-
2018	Glasgow, GBR	9th (82.703)	9th (84.733)	10th (80.282)	11th (82.000)	9th (78.007)	9th	7th (81.366)

World Junior Championships

Year	Location	Solo TR	Solo FR	Duet TR	Duet FR	FR Combination
2018	Budapest, HUN	9th (83.109)	9th (83.833)	10th (81.695)	10th (82.900)	9th (80.333)

Legend
TR - Technical Routine, FR - Free Routine, PR - Preliminary Round, X - Mixed

Family:

Partner Bernardo

Club name:

City of Bristol Aquatics [Great Britain]

Coach:

Paola Basso [personal]

Sporting relatives:

Her mother Maria competed in artistic swimming, and was the duet partner of the mother of Kate's duet partner Isabelle Thorpe. (insidesynchro.org, 08 Jun 2020)

Start:

She took up swimming at age five and artistic swimming at age six in Bristol, England. (thebristolmag.co.uk, 01 Jan 2020; insidesynchro.org, 08 Jun 2020)

Reason:

"I think mainly it was through my mum and [older] sister doing it and a lot of my family members being in the pool, so it was a very natural environment to be in." (thebristolmag.co.uk, 01 Jan 2020; insidesynchro.org, 08 Jun 2020)

Ambition:

To compete at the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games. (insidesynchro.org, 08 Jun 2020)

Award:

She was named Artistic Swimming Athlete of the Year at the 2019 British Swimming Awards. (British Swimming YouTube channel, 09 Nov 2019)

General Interest

General
PLASTIC POLLUTION AWARENESS
In 2019 she and her artistic swimming duet partner Isabelle Thorpe performed a routine in a pool full of plastic items to demonstrate the impact of plastic waste on the world's oceans, the video of which went viral. "It was so odd to get such a global response. A Japanese judge who came up to us and told us she saw our video. That's when we were really like, 'Oh my goodness, it literally reached everybody.'" (bbc.com, 28 Mar 2019; insidesynchro.org, 08 Jun 2020)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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