Adrian Turner
Personal information
Full nameAdrian Roy Turner
National team Great Britain
Born (1977-01-21) 21 January 1977
Manchester, England
Height1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBreaststroke, medley
ClubCity of Salford SC
Stockport Metro
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2002 Manchester 200 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Manchester 400 m medley

Adrian Roy Turner (born 21 January 1977) is a British former male Olympic swimmer, known for winning silver and bronze medals representing England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and reaching the semi-final of the Athens 2004 Games.[1]

Swimming career

Turner represented Great Britain on numerous occasions during his swimming career principally the 2004 Athens Olympic Games where he swam both individual medley events and reached the semi-final stage of the 200m.[1]

Previously Turner had competed at two Commonwealth Games; he represented England in the individual medley events, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[2][3]

Four years later at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, he represented England in the 200m individual medley finishing in silver medal position in a time of 2:02.10 and the 400m individual medley finishing with bronze in 4:18.75.[4]

Personal life

After retiring from international swimming Turner joined up with Olympic teammate Stephen Parry to found Total Swimming Ltd. The vision of the company is "Revolutionizing Swimming, Changing Lives."

Following the 2004 Athens Olympic Games Turner attended the Universita` per Stranieri di Perugia in Italy, where he studied a post-graduate course in the history of Italian theatre from 2004 to 2005. He is fluent in Italian. Following this he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London, completing a Masters in Text and Performance from 2005 to 2006. In 2010 he joined the cast of BBC drama The Cut in a recurring role as Coach Reynolds. In the same year he was cast in the lead role in Nice Shirt Films' international Vicks Sinex ad-campaign. From 2010 to 2012 he played Championship footballer Danny Deans in Big Balls Films/WeRInteractive's video-game 'I Am Playr' which was nominated for a BAFTA in 2012 and won the Cannes Golden Lion Award the same year.

He is the brother of TV presenter Beverley Turner and previously brother-in-law of Olympic rower James Cracknell.[1][5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Olympic Profile". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
  2. ↑ "1998 Athletes". Team England.
  3. ↑ "England team in 1998". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  4. ↑ "Athletes and results". Commonwealth Games Federation. Archived from the original on 31 October 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  5. ↑ Scott, Interviews by Danny. "Relative Values: Beverley and Adrian Turner". The Times.
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