Helen Smart was holidaying with family in a place she loved to visit and 'felt like home'.
A former Olympic swimmer and headteacher tragically died after going to bed on a family trip to the Lake District.
"It was Rob's 40th birthday celebrations we had gone as a family. We were all together and then she went to bed and that was it," Nicola said. A respected swimmer, she competed for Team GB in the 200m backstroke at the Sydney 2000 Olympics and won a number of other medals in the sport, including bronze medal at the 1998 Commonwealth Games and silvers at the World Short Course Championships of 1999. She was also a playing member of Pemberton Old Wigan DW Band.
"She was always the type to seize the moment. She had amazing work ethic, built through her swimming career when she was very young which stuck with her through the rest of her life, from competing in the Olympics to her career as a school teacher. She was keen to bring up young children and encourage them to be the best they could be.
Tributes have since poured in for Helen. Former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies said Helen was a 'fierce competitor' who always had a 'huge smile on her face' as ex-world champion British swimmer Mark Foster said she had an 'infectious smile and laugh'.
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