Isabelle Thorpe
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Biography
Isabelle Thorpe (born 4 March 2001) is a British synchronised swimmer who won a silver medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the duet. She competed in the women's duet event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. She also represented Great Britain at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary and at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. She also competed at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. She trains at the City of Bristol Swimming Club.
Career
At the 2019 World Aquatics Championships, Thorpe and Kate Shortman competed in the duet technical routine and duet free routine and they finished in 14th place in the preliminary round in both events.
In 2021, she competed in the duet free routine and duet technical routine events at the 2020 European Aquatics Championships held in Budapest, Hungary. Thorpe and Kate Shortman finished in 9th place in the duet technical routine at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships held in Budapest, Hungary.
At the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, Thorpe and Shortman won the silver medal in the Duet technical routine competition, becoming the first Britons to do so. The pair followed this up with bronze in the Duet free routine competition. This ensured the duo's qualification for the 2024 Paris Olympics where they won a silver medal. This was the first ever medal for Great Britain in artistic swimming at the Olympics.