Emily Seebohm
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Emily Seebohm (born 5 June 1992) is an Australian swimmer from Adelaide, South Australia. She won a gold in the 4 x 100 Medley Relay final, swimming backstroke, at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships, held in Melbourne on 31 March 2007.
Seebohm has also won gold in both 100 m backstroke and the 4x100 Medley Relay at the 2007 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.
Seebohm currently attends St John Fisher College, a Catholic school for girls at Bracken Ridge, and formerly attended St Margaret's Anglican Girls School.
On 6 March 2008 at the Brisbane Catholic Schoolgirls Championships, Seebohm broke the 50 metre backstroke Commonwealth and Australian records with a time 28.10 seconds, missing Li Yang's then world record of 28.09 by one hundredth of a second.[2] Sixteen days later on 22 March 2008, Seebohm broke the world record in the 50 metre backstroke semi-final at the 2008 Australian Championships, with a time of 27.95s, taking five hundredths of a second off Hayley McGregory's world record of 28.00[2] set only 15 days eariler on 7 March 2008.[3] A day later, this record was beaten again, this time by Australian Sophie Edington in a time of 27.67 seconds in the final of the same event.[4] Seebohm decided not to swim in the final of this event as it is not an Olympic event and instead decided to focus on the semi-final of the 100 metre backstroke. Her decision paid off when she became the first Australian woman to break the one-minute barrier in the event, her 59.78 making her the fifth-fastest of all-time.[4] She then lowered the record to 59.58 s in the final, winning the Australian championship and gaining selection for the Olympic Games in Beijing.
References
- ^ 12th FINA World Championships. Retrieved on 2007-06-09.
- ^ a b "Rice and Seebohm is smashed world records", The Sydney Morning Herald, 2008-03-22. Retrieved on 2008-03-24.
- ^ "McGregory breaks 50m backstoke world record", ABC News, 2008-03-09. Retrieved on 2008-03-24.
- ^ a b Cowley, Michael. "Teenager's hold on world time short-lived", The Age, 2008-03-24. Retrieved on 2008-03-24.
External links
- Profile from Swimming Australia
- Videos & Results on SwimPassion.net
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Preceded by Hayley McGregory |
Women's 50 metre backstroke world record holder (long course) 22 March 2008 – 23 March 2008 |
Succeeded by Sophie Edington |
