Chloe Tutton is inspired by hero David Davies as she prepares to make her Olympic debut this afternoon.
Tutton goes in the 100m breaststroke heats alongside Molly Renshaw, though its the 200m breaststroke - in which she recently smashed the British record - that is her main target in Rio.
The 20-year old convincingly won the 200m breaststroke title at the trials in a 2:22.34 national best, which carved three seconds off her personal best. The time would have won silver at last year’s World Championships and ranks her fifth in the world this year.
“My first swimming hero was David Davies (pictured above) because he was Welsh too,” she said.
“I was only eight when he won his bronze in Athens and I remember screaming at the television on my tip toes and just being super excited. He was an amazing swimmer and world-class.
“From that moment, being in the Olympics like him became my dream. I remember watching the race and being desperate to get into the pool as quickly as possible, imagining I was at the Olympics.
“It's so surreal to think I'll be doing it for real now and if I think about having the same effect on someone else, it just makes me so proud.”
Renshaw narrowly missed out on selection for London 2012 and faced an anxious wait after winning the 100m breaststroke race at the trials, just outside the demanding qualifying standard.
Now she’s determined to shake off her tag as Mansfield’s second most famous swimmer - though she’ll need to go some to eclipse the two golds and two bronzes won by Rebecca Adlington in Beijing and London, which make her Britain’s most successful woman Olympian.
“Missing London hit me very hard but I was only 15,” she said.
“The year before I’d made my first Worlds team and then everything happened so fast.
“It’s pushed me and I think it’s made me tougher. I never want to feel like that again and I’ve trained so hard to make sure I don’t.
“It’s a nice compliment to be compared with Rebecca. I’ve got a lot to live up to if people want me to walk in her shoes though.”
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