Jessica Pengelly
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| Full name | Jessica Evelyn Pengelly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 South Africa (to 2014) Australia (from 2014) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
1 July 1991 Edenvale, Gauteng, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, medley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | West Coast Swimming Club[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Mick Palfrey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jessica Evelyn Pengelly (born 1 July 1991 in Edenvale, Gauteng) is a South African-born Australian swimmer, who specializes in freestyle and individual medley events.[2] She is a multiple-time South African champion and record holder in the individual medley (both 200 and 400 m), and a five-time medalist at the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria.[3][4] She also set two national records in the freestyle relays at the 2008 FINA World Short Course Championships in Manchester, England, and at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China.[5] During the 2008 FINA World Short Course Championships, Pengelly placed 4th in the 400im with a time of 4:31.79.
Pengelly qualified for two swimming events, as South Africa's youngest swimmer (aged 17), at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She set a South African mark and cleared FINA-A standard entry times of 2:15.22 (200 m individual medley) and 4:41.35 (400 m individual medley) from the national championships.[3][6]
On the first night of the Games, Pengelly challenged seven other swimmers in the fifth and final heat of the 400 m individual medley, including top medal favorites Katinka Hosszú of Hungary, Hannah Miley of Great Britain, and Katie Hoff of the United States. She edged out France's Joanne Andraca to take the seventh spot and twenty-first overall by more than two seconds in 4:41.04.[7]
In the 200 m individual medley, Pengelly posted a new South African record of 2:15.80 on the second heat, but finished only in fifth place and twenty-sixth overall by 0.41 of a second behind Slovenia's Anja Klinar.[8]
Pengelly emigrated to Perth, Western Australia in 2010, after completing high school, where she trains for the West Coast Swimming Club.[1] She will compete for Australia at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, in Glasgow.[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "City Swimmer Profile – Jessica Pengelly". City of Perth Swimming Club. 18 August 2011. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ↑ "Jessica Pengelly". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "South African Championships: Jessica Pengelly Leads Record Bonanza". Swimming World Magazine. 6 April 2008. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ↑ Omok, Isa (16 July 2007). "South African swimmers shine, Algeria soccer hopes dashed". Reuters. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ↑ Staff (9 April 2008). "SA swimmers shine in Manchester". Mail & Guardian. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 200m Individual Medley" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 79. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 400m Individual Medley Heat 5". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ↑ "Women's 200m Individual Medley Heat 2". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
- ↑ Dale Miller (13 April 2014). "Jessica set for green and gold" – The West Australian. Retrieved 22 July 2014.