fullname coach club birth_place weight nationality height birth_date residence image article_title education name collegeteam
marc nicholas spackman royal maxwell swim club -lrb- 2012 -- 14 -rrb- harrow sc wolverhampton -lrb- 2009 -- 12 -rrb- lincoln vulcans -lrb- 2006 -- school 09 -rrb- sc -lrb- 2014 -- present -rrb- lincoln pentaqua 1984 -- 97 lincoln , lincolnshire 86 kg lb on british uk 6 ft 3 in cm on 7 february 1979 london 300px marc spackman
 nottingham trent university ba -lrb- hons -rrb- graphic design marc spackman university of bath 1997-2004
marc spackman

marc spackman -lrb- born 7 february 1979 in lincoln , england -rrb- is a former england and great britain -lsb- olympic swimmer who had a successful international career spanning 10 years .
formerly ranked in the world top 20 in the 200 metres freestyle , he is a current professional swimming coach for the royal wolverhampton school swimming club .
as a professional athlete , spackman won two major games medals as part of the men 's 4x200 freestyle relay in the world championships -lrb- hong kong 1999 & athens 2000 - british & european record -rrb- and as a 17-year-old qualifying for the 4x200 world long course championship relay team that won bronze in the final .
spackman qualified for and competed in the sydney 2000 olympic games qualifying from the british championships -lrb- olympic trials -rrb- in july 2000 for the great britain olympic team .
spackman competed alongside strong competitors and olympians paul palmer and james salter -lrb- both olympic finalists in their own right -rrb- .
the team qualified for the olympic final from the heats in 7:16.98 and placing fifth in 7:12.54 -lrb- a new british record and fifth fastest all time -rrb- missing out on a medal by 0.2 hundredths of a second .
spackman competed for the city of lincoln pentaqua from 1983 to 1997 and the university of bath 1997-2003 both under great britain olympic team head coach , ian turner .
after ending his swimming career in 2003 , he studied art and design foundation degree at the city of bath college and advanced to nottingham trent university to study graphic design graduating in 2006 with honours .
during university spackman began coaching at the lincoln vulcans swimming club , initially as assistant coach and then as head coach in 2006 .
during this period spackman 's results were outstanding , coaching and developing elizabeth simmonds to win quadruple gold in the 2007 european junior championships -lrb- breaking european junior records -rrb- , world championship silver in a new european record time and olympic qualification -lrb- beijing 2008 -rrb- in a new british record on the 200 and 100 metres backstroke .
also working with paralympic champion and world record holder robert welbourn and european junior silver medallist sophie allen .
in 2009 , he moved on to the borough of harrow sc -lrb- formerly harrow and wealdstone swimming club -rrb- and more recently became the elite coach at the royal school .
