LONDON, England, June 18. BRITISH Swimmer Liam Tancock has received the highest sporting accolade awarded to an athlete competing while in Higher Education when he was named British Universities Sports Association Sportsman of the Year on an International Stage.
The 22-year-old Loughborough University sports science student received the BUSA award for the second year running after an impressive 12 months that saw Tancock add to his ever-growing list of achievements in the water.
Tancock is a British and Commonwealth Backstroke Record holder, twice World Championship bronze medalist and Commonwealth Champion, and is also no stranger to awards after collecting the BBC (South West) Sportsperson of the Year 2006 and British Swimming's Male Swimmer of the Year 2007.
Special thanks to British Swimming for contributing this report.