Danni Miatke
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| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Competitor for  Australia |
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| Women's Swimming | |||
| Commonwealth Games | |||
| Gold | 2006 Melbourne[1] | 50 m butterfly | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 2005 Montreal | 50 m butterfly | |
| Silver | 2007 Melbourne[2] | 50 m butterfly | |
| Gold | 2007 Melbourne | 4 x 100 m freestyle relay | |
| World Championships - Short Course | |||
| Silver | 2004 Indianapolis[3] | 4 x 200m freestyle relay | |
| Bronze | 2004 Indianapolis | 4 x 100m freestyle relay | |
| Bronze | 2004 Indianapolis | 4 x 100m medley relay | |
| Silver | 2006 Shanghai[4] | 4 x 100 m freestyle relay | |
| Gold | 2006 Shanghai | 4 x 100 m medley relay | |
Danni Miatke (born 29 November 1987) is an Australian swimmer.
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[edit] Biography
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 (Now Known as the CA Tritons). Her current coach is Rohan Taylor. Miatke's interests include knitting, reading and playing on the Wii video game console.[5]
In 2006, Miatke was a finalist in the Northern Territory for the Young Australian of the Year Award.[6]
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.[7]
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.[8] At the 2006 Commonwealth Games, in her adopted home town of Melbourne, Miatke won gold in the 50 metres butterfly.[9]
[edit] Personal bests
[edit] Long course
- 50 m butterfly: 26.05s(Commonwealth record)
- 100 m butterfly: 59.98s
- 100 m freestyle: 56.14s
[edit] References
- ^ Swimming Schedule and Results. Retrieved on 2007-08-22.
- ^ 12th FINA World Championships. Retrieved on 2007-06-09.
- ^ Montreal 2005 Results. Retrieved on 2007-06-09.
- ^ Shanghai 2006 results. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
- ^ 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.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Swimming Australia profile for Danni Miatke
