Editing Hartlepool (section)

===Olympics===

====Boxing====
At the [[2012 Summer Olympics]], 21-year-old [[Savannah Marshall]], who attended [[English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College]] in the town of Hartlepool, competed in the Women's boxing tournament of the 2012 Olympic Games. She was defeated 12–6 by [[Marina Volnova]] of [[Kazakhstan]] in her opening, quarter-final bout. [[Savannah Marshall]] is now a professional boxer, currently unbeaten as a pro and on 31 October 2020 in her 9th professional fight Marshall became the WBO female middleweight champion with a TKO victory over opponent [[Hannah Rankin]] at [[Wembley Arena]].{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}

====Swimming====
In August 2012 [[Jemma Lowe]], a British record holder who attended [[High Tunstall College of Science]] in the town of Hartlepool, competed in the 2012 Olympic Games. She finished sixth in the 200-metre butterfly final with a time of 58.06 seconds. She was also a member of the eighth-place British team in the [[400m]] [[Medley swimming|Medley relay]].