DAWSON Kathleen

Date of Birth: 3 Oct 1997

Age: 23

Gender: Female

Place of birth: KIRKCALDY

Birth Country:

Great Britain

Place of residence : STIRLING

Residence Country:

Great Britain

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Women's 100m Backstroke	6
	Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay GBR Great Britain	1

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Backstroke - Heat 6	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Backstroke Semifinal 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Backstroke Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	4x100Medley W
2017	Budapest, HUN	H (28.42)	8th (59.90)	7th (3:59.51)

European Championships

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	4x100Medley W	4x100Medley X
2020	Budapest, HUN	2nd (27.46)	1st (58.49)	1st (3:54.01)	1st (3:38.82)
2018	Glasgow, GBR	SF (28.11)	SF (1:00.57)	3rd	-

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	200Back	4x100Medley
2016	Windsor, ON, CAN	7th (26.42)	5th (56.73)	5th (2:04.09)	8th

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Kat (Instagram profile, 30 Apr 2021)

Drawing portraits, playing video games, painting. (britishswimming.org, 29 Jul 2020)

Occupation:

Sport Studies - University of Stirling, Great Britain

Languages spoken:

University of Stirling [Great Britain]

Steven Tigg [club]; Bradley Hay [club]

She ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament [ACL] in her knee in 2018 and required surgery. She did not swim for three months. (bbc.co.uk, 15 Apr 2021; fifetoday.co.uk, 03 May 2021; stateofswimming.com, 17 Apr 2021)

She was taken to the swimming pool as a toddler in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, but did not begin swimming lessons until age four in Great Sankey, England. (backarisingstar.com, 14 Jul 2013)

To win an individual medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (fifetoday.co.uk, 03 May 2021)

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, British sprinter Derek Redmond, British swimmer Adam Peaty. (backarisingstar.com, 14 Jul 2013; stateofswimming.com, 17 Apr 2021)

Her family, and coach Darren Ashley. (backarisingstar.com, 14 Jul 2013)

Philosophy:

"I was aware of my success, but I never stopped trying to get better." [US basketball player Michael Jordan] (backarisingstar.com, 14 Jul 2013)

General Interest

General
COVID-19 IMPACT
She believes that missing time due to the anterior cruciate ligament [ACL] injury she suffered in 2018 gave her an advantage over other swimmers in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. "In terms of covid - everyone's been in the same boat with that. But before that, I just had an ACL injury, I'd ruptured my ACL so I'd had to recover from that and I feel like that gave me an edge above everybody else, and with covid, in that I'd kind of already dealt with it. I had had those three months out of the pool and I'd come back and then covid happened and then everybody was out for another three months. So I feel like that had given me the edge above everyone else knowing that I can come back from this; I've already done it." (stateofswimming.com, 17 Apr 2021)

Social Media

Legend

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

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