Danni Miatke

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Danni Miatke (born 29 November 1987) is an Australian swimmer.

Born in Darwin, Northern Territory in 1987, Miatke began competitive swimming in 1995. She first represented the Northern Territory in 1998 at the national School Sport Swimming and Diving Championships. She first won gold for the Territory in 1999 at the Australian Age Championships, in the 100 metres backstroke in the under-13 division. Her coach in the Northern Territory was Jay Davies, from the Northern Territory Institute of Sport.

Miatke moved to Melbourne, Victoria in 2002 to pursue a career in professional swimming. Until the end of 2005, she was a student at Carey Baptist Grammar School in the Melbourne suburb of Kew. She is a member of the Carey Aquatic Swim Club, a club associated with Carey Grammar and which trains at its facilities. Her current coach, Rohan Taylor, has been the head coach at Carey Aquatic since 2000. Miatke's interests include knitting and reading.^[1]

In 2006, Miatke was a finalist in the Northern Territory for the Young Australian of the Year Award.^[2]

At the 2004 FINA Short Course World Championships in Indianapolis, United States, Miatke won silver in the 4x200 metre freestyle relay, and bronze in both the 4x100 metre freestyle relay and 4x100 metre medley relay. Her best individual result at the meet was thirteenth in the 200 metre freestyle. The 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, Canada were Miatke's first international long-course meet. She won gold in the 50 metres butterfly in Commonwealth record time, ahead of world record holder Anna-Karin Kammerling from Sweden.^[3]

In 2006, Miatke won the 50 metres butterfly at the Telstra Commonwealth Games Trials and finished fifth in the 100 metres, qualifying for the Australian Commonwealth Games team.^[4] At the 2006 Commonwealth Games, in her adopted home town of Melbourne, Miatke won gold in the 50 metres butterfly.^[5]

1 Personal bests
- 1.1 Long course
2 References
3 External link

[edit] Personal bests

[edit] Long course

50 m butterfly: 26.11s (Commonwealth record)
100 m butterfly: 59.98s
100 m freestyle: 56.14s

[edit] References

^ Athlete Profile > Danni Miatke. Victorian Institute of Sport. Retrieved on 2006-03-18.
^ Danni Miatke. Australian of the Year Awards 2006. Retrieved on 2006-03-18.
^ ABC/Reuters/AFP. "Miatke strikes gold in Canada", Australian Broadcasting Corporation, July 31, 2005.
^ Swimmer Profile - Danni Miatke. Swimming Australia. Retrieved on 2006-03-18.
^ Biography - Danni Miatke. Melbourne 2006. Retrieved on 2006-03-18.