Marieke D'Cruz

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Marieke D'Cruz

Personal information

Full name

Marieke Katherine D'Cruz (née Guehrer)

Nickname(s)

Nationality

Australia

Born

9 February 1986
Adelaide

Height

1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)

Weight

74 kilograms (163 lb)

Sport

Swimming

Stroke(s)

Backstroke, Butterfly, Freestyle

Club

Melbourne Vicentre

Medal record

Competitor for Australia
World Championships (LC)
Gold	2009 Rome	50 m butterfly
Bronze	2009 Rome	4×100 m freestyle
World Championships (SC)
Silver	2012 Istanbul	4×100 m freestyle
Silver	2012 Istanbul	4×100 m medley
Bronze	2010 Dubai	4×100 m medley
Commonwealth Games
Gold	2010 Delhi	4×100 m freestyle
Silver	2010 Delhi	50 m butterfly
Pan Pacific Championships
Gold	2010 Irvine	50 m butterfly
Summer Universiade
Gold	2011 Shenzhen	4×100 m freestyle
Silver	2011 Shenzhen	50 m butterfly

Marieke Katherine D'Cruz (née Guehrer), born 9 February 1986, is an Australian swimmer who is the former world record holder in the 50 metres butterfly short course. She clocked 24.99 seconds^[1]

After her breakout meet in late 2008, D'Cruz broke her personal best times in several events, also breaking the short course 50 m butterfly world record. At the 2009 Telstra Aus trials, she earned an individual spot in the 100 m freestyle clocking 54.28 along with a spot on the 4×100 m freestyle relay team. The next day she clocked 25.60 s in the 50 m Butterfly, easily making the qualifying time and becoming the third fastest in history in that event, after some thunderous times posted in the semi-finals, the fasted qualifiers failed to match their times in the final, and Guehrer won gold.

At the 2009 World Aquatics Championships, D'Cruz picked up her first medal on day one with a bronze medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay. With a tremendously fast semi-finals in the 50 m butterfly, from lane 6 Guehrer caused an upset capturing gold.

At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, D'Cruz won silver in the 50m butterfly final to Francesca Halsall and won gold in the 4×100 m freestyle relay.

Career Best Times

LONG COURSE (50m Pool)
- 50m butterfly– 25.48 (Commonwealth Record)
- 100m butterfly – 58.08
- 50m freestyle – 24.87
SHORT COURSE (25m Pool)
- 50m butterfly– 24.69 (Commonwealth Record)
- 50m freestyle – 23.74 (Commonwealth Record)
- 50m backstroke – 25.98 (Commonwealth Record)
- 50m butterfly 100m backstroke (Australian Record)

References

↑ Williams, Rebecca (18 November 2008). "Marieke Guehrer wins $156,000 in world record time". Herald Sun.

External links

Records
Preceded by Therese Alshammar	Women's 50 metre butterfly world record holder (short course) 15 November 2008 – 17 October 2009	Succeeded by Therese Alshammar
Preceded by Sanja Jovanović	Women's 50 metre backstroke world record holder (short course) 6 November 2009 – 10 November 2009	Succeeded by Zhao Jing
Sporting positions
Preceded by Therese Alshammar	Female World Cup Overall Winner 2008	Succeeded by Jessica Hardy

v t e World Long Course Champions in Women's 50 m Butterfly

2001: Inge de Bruijn (NED) 2003: Inge de Bruijn (NED) 2005: Danni Miatke (AUS) 2007: Therese Alshammar (SWE) 2009: Marieke Guehrer (AUS) 2011: Inge Dekker (NED) 2013: Jeanette Ottesen (DEN)

v t e Commonwealth Champions in Women's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay

1930: 4×100 Yards Freestyle 1934–1966: 4×110 Yards Freestyle 1970–2010: 4×100 Metres Freestyle

1930: England (J. Cooper, D. Cooper, Joynes, Harding) 1934: Canada (Dewar, Humble, Hutton, Pirie) 1938: Canada (Oxenbury, Lyon, Baggaley, Dewar) 1950: Australia (Spencer, Norton, Davies, McQuade) 1954: South Africa (Loveday, Harrison, Petzer, Myburgh) 1958: Australia (Colquhoun, Fraser, Crapp, Morgan) 1962: Australia (Fraser, Bell, Thorn, Everuss) 1966: Canada (Tanner, Hughes, Kennedy, Lay) 1970: Australia (Cain, Langford, Watts, Watson) 1974: Canada (Jardin, Smith, Amundrud, Wright) 1978: Canada (Klimpel, Amundrud, Sloan, Quirk) 1982: England (Gore, Willmott, Croft, Fibbens) 1986: Canada (Nugent, Kerr, Rai, Noall) 1990: Australia (Mullens, Wirdum, Curry-Kenny, O'Neill) 1994: Australia (Windsor, Lewis, Stevenson, O'Neill) 1998: Australia (Rooney, Denman, Thomas, O'Neill) 2002: Australia (Mills, Henry, Thomas, Ryan) 2006: Australia (Lenton, Barratt, Stubbins, Mackenzie) 2010: Australia (Coutts, Guehrer, Galvez, Seebohm)

v t e Pan Pacific Champions in Women's 50 m Butterfly

2010: Marieke Guehrer (AUS)

Summer Universiade Champions in Women's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay

1959: Great Britain: Unknown
1961: Soviet Union: Unknown
1963: Hungary: Unknown
1965: Hungary: Unknown
1967: USA: (Gustavson, Alsup, Randall, Ellis)
1970: USA: (McCuen, Benoit, Hall, Fritz)
1973: USA: (Corcione, Tullis, Wetsel, Tuttle)
1977: USA: (Houghton, Brown, Harrell, Hinderaker)
1979: USA: (Harris, Hinderaker, Glasgow, Caulkins)
1981: USA: (Lett, Borgmann, Major, Sterkel)
1983: Soviet Union: Unknown
1985: USA: (Boyd, Zemina, Wengler, Johnson)
1987: Netherlands: Unknown
1991: PR China: Unknown
1993: USA: (Perroni, Allick, Booth, Hedgepeth)
1995: USA: (Tong, Coole, Edwards, Bendel)
1997: USA: (Eberwein, Taylor, Price, Kolbisen)
1999: USA: (Maxwell, Black, Terry, Allen)
2001: USA: (Crisman, Jaimson, Williams, Tolar)
2003: France: (Mongel, Couderc, Monchaux, Figuès)
2005: USA: (Hupman, Correia, Wanezek, Vollmer)
2007: USA: (Silver, Denby, Cashion, Hupman)
2009: USA: (King, Kennedy, Ohlgren, Scroggy, Scroggy, Nauta)
2011: Australia: (Campbell, Mills, Morrison, Guehrer)
2013: Russia: (Andreyeva, Belyakina, Nesterova, Popova)

Persondata
Name	D'Cruz, Marieke Katherine
Alternative names	Guehrer, Marieke Katherine (maiden name)
Short description	Australian swimmer
Date of birth	9 February 1986
Place of birth	Adelaide
Date of death
Place of death

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