{{short description|British swimmer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}} {{Infobox swimmer | name = Vicky Horner | image = <!-- Only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people -- see WP:NONFREE. --> | image_size = <!-- Only for images narrower than 220 pixels --> | alt = | caption = | fullname = Victoria Elizabeth Horner | nicknames = "Vicky" | national_team = {{GBR2}} | strokes = Freestyle | club = Derwentside ASC | coach = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1976|5|11|df=y}} | birth_place = Newcastle upon Tyne, England | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{convert|1.70|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | weight = {{convert|67|kg|lb st|abbr=on}} | medaltemplates = {{MedalSport | Women's swimming}} {{MedalCountry | Great Britain}} {{MedalCompetition | European Championships (SC)}} {{MedalSilver | 1998 Sheffield | 400 m freestyle}} {{MedalCompetition | European Championships (LC)}} {{MedalBronze | 1995 Vienna | 4×200 m freestyle}} {{MedalCountry | {{ENG}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalSilver| 1998 Kuala Lumpur | 400m freestyle}} |show-medals=yes }}
'''Victoria Elizabeth Horner''' (born 11 May 1976) is a female English former competitive swimmer.
==Swimming career== She represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games and European championships. She won a bronze medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay at the 1995 European Aquatics Championships. Her team finished 10th in the same event at the 1996 Summer Olympics.<ref name="r2"/> She also won a silver medal in the 400-metre freestyle at the European Short Course Swimming Championships 1998.<ref name="r1"/> She represented England at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamengland.org/commonwealth-games-history/victoria-1994/athletes|title=Athletes: Victoria 1994 Team |website=Team England |access-date=19 November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/games/3043/19/all|title=Athletes & Results: England Victoria 1994 |website=Commonwealth Games Federation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404120935/https://thecgf.com/results/games/3043/19/all |archive-date=4 April 2019 |access-date=19 November 2024}}</ref> and won a silver medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in the 400-metre freestyle.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/54384|title=Athletes & Results: Victoria Horner|website=Commonwealth Games Federation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024175451/https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/54384 |archive-date=24 October 2019 |access-date=19 November 2024}}</ref>
She is a three-times winner of the British Championship in 400-metre freestyle (1997, 1998 and 2000).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0500146379/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=1c69e1a7 |title=For the Record |newspaper=The Times |date=21 July 1997 |page=40 |via=Gale Primary Sources |access-date=19 November 2024 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0501262636/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=79de097c |title=For the Record |newspaper=The Times |date=13 July 1998 |page=39 |via=Gale Primary Sources |access-date=19 November 2024 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0502647877/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=088aa896 |title=For the record |newspaper=The Times |date=27 July 2000 |page=33 |via=Gale Primary Sources |access-date=19 November 2024 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref>
==Personal life== Her husband, Rob Hayles, is a retired Olympic sprint cyclist.<ref name="r2"/> They have a daughter, born 23 January 2006.<ref>{{cite web |first=Tim |last=Maloney |date=29 January 2006 |url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/hayles-is-a-dad |title=Hayles is a dad |website=Cycling News |access-date=19 November 2024}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="r1">{{cite web |url=http://www.les-sports.info/natation-horner-vicky-resultats-identite-s10-c2-b4-o11-w167107.html |title=Natation – Vicky Horner |website=LesSports.info |access-date=19 November 2024}}</ref> <ref name="r2">{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/vicky-horner-1.html |title=Vicky Horner |website=sports-reference.com |publisher= |access-date=19 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418041128/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/vicky-horner-1.html |archive-date=18 April 2020 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> }}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Horner, Vicky}} Category:1976 births Category:Living people Category:Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic swimmers for Great Britain Category:English female freestyle swimmers Category:British female freestyle swimmers Category:European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Category:Swimmers at the 1994 Commonwealth Games Category:Swimmers at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists in swimming Category:Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games Category:Sportspeople from Newcastle upon Tyne Category:20th-century English sportswomen