price joins the exodus

The wave of retirements that has been sweeping through the national ranks has claimed another of Britain’s Athens Contingent as Sarah Price last night announced her decision to call time on her career.


Double Commonwealth champion Price revealed that feels she can no longer cope with the demands of the training required to compete at the highest level and has struggled to regain the kind of form which saw her ranked number 3 in the world leading in to 2003’s world championships in Barcelona. Unfortunates she was never able to compete at her best in the Olympics, suffering form misfortune on both her visits, to Sydney and Athens.
“You just know when it’s time to go and that time for me is now. I desperately want to achieve at the highest level but I don’t think my body can handle what it takes anymore” said Price.
“Recently I’ve found my body can’t cope as well as it needs to in order to achieve the results I want to achieve. Training has been difficult to recover from and whereas we’ve adapted it to my needs it’s getting harder all of the time.”
As well as winning two golds in Manchester, Price also won two European short course titles over 200m backstroke, an event in which she set a world record in 2001. She has also set over 45 British, European and Commonwealth records in an international career spanning 10 years and won the pullbuoy swimmer of the year titles two years running in 2001 and 2002.