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Payne heading for Scotland

Double world open-water champion Keri-anne Payne has announced she has left Stockport ITC for Edinburgh.

Payne, who was edged out of the ...

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Payne fourth in open water swim

Keri-anne Payne was just edged out of a medal as she finished fourth in the 10-kilometre open water swim in the Serpentine.

Hungary's Eva...

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Team GB hopes - Day 13

Team GB go into day 13 of London 2012 with high hopes of medals in the dressage finale and here we look at all hopes of Team GB athletes on Thur...

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Swimmer Payne carries GB medal hopes

British hopes of a gold medal in the water rest on Keri-Anne Payne's shoulders on Thursday when she takes to the Serpentine for the 10 kilometre...

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British swimmers hoping to make a splash

After seven years of planning, the pool competition at the London Olympics finally gets under way on Saturday with Hannah Miley a very real cont...

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Medal Record

London 2012
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Beijing 2008
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  • 1 Silver
  • 0 Bronze

Biography

http://www.keriannepayne.co.uk/

Keri-Anne Payne was the first Brit to qualify for the London 2012 Olympics after winning 10km open water marathon gold at the World Championships in Shanghai in July 2011. However her official selection didn’t come until just after the Olympic trials in March, where she failed to add any swims in the pool to her already secured open water place.

Born in Johannesburg to British parents, Payne was eight when she impressed then performance director Bill Sweetenham at a training camp in South Africa.Aged 13, Payne moved to Britain with her family to live in Heywood and she soon joined Stockport Metro and met her long-standing coach Sean Kelly.It was Kelly who put the thought of open water swimming in her head as a solution to regain funding following a failure to win a medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.

Payne won silver as open water swimming was added to the Olympic programme for the Beijing Games in 2008, sharing the limelight with teammate Cassie Patten who took bronze but has since retired. She plans to marry fellow swimmer David Carry after the Olympics