Lara Carroll

Lara Carroll

Personal information
National team	Australia
Born	(1986-12-08) 8 December 1986 Cambridge, England
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	55 kg (121 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Medley
Club	Fremantle Port Swim Club
Medal record Women's swimming Competitor for Australia World Championships - Long Course Bronze 2005 Montreal[1] 200 m medley World Championships - Short Course Bronze 2006 Shanghai[2] 200 m medley Silver 2004 Indianapolis[3] 200 m medley Bronze 2004 Indianapolis 400 m medley Commonwealth Games Bronze 2006 Melbourne[4] 200 m medley

Lara Carroll (born 8 December 1986) is an English-born competition swimmer who has represented Australia in international events, including the 2004 Summer Olympics.

She attended Leeming Senior High School in the suburb of Leeming.

Carroll made her international debut at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she finished 6th in the 200 m individual medley. She claimed her first international medals later that year at the 2004 FINA Short Course World Championships in Indianapolis, claiming silver and bronze in the 200-metre and 400-metre individual medley respectively. She claimed her first long-course medal at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships, claiming a bronze in the 200-metre individual medley. She also came fourth in the 400-metre event.

Carroll is a member of the Australian Commonwealth Swimming Team at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, where she won a bronze medal in the 200-metre individual medley, finishing behind Stephanie Rice and Brooke Hanson, in a time of 2:13.86. She didn't compete in the 400-metre event due to illness.

She is a student and a member of the Fremantle Port swimming club.

In May 2014, she married her long-time partner Sam Mist in a beautiful ceremony at Rottnest Island.

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