Louise Bawden
Personal information | |
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Nationality | Australia |
Born |
Melbourne | 7 August 1981
Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) (2012) |
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) (2012) |
Sport | |
Country | Australia |
Sport | Beach volleyball |
Louise Bawden (born 7 August 1981)[1] is an Australian beach volleyball player. She represented Australia at the 2000 Summer Olympics in indoor volleyball, finishing in 9th.[2] She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in beach volley, bu she and team-mate Becchara Palmer did not qualify from the poule stage.[2]
Personal
Bawden was born in Melbourne, Victoria.[3][4] She spent her childhood in Melbourne,[3][4] moving to Canberra when she was sixteen.[3] She then moved to the Netherlands after the Sydney Olympics, returning to Australia in 2003.[3] In 2008, she completed a degree at a university in Queensland.[4] She attended the 2008 Summer Olympics as a fan.[4] As of 2012, she lives in Adelaide.[3][5]
Bawden is 183 centimetres (6 ft 0 in) tall and weighs 72 kilograms (159 lb).[3]
Indoor volleyball
Bawden earned a volleyball scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport when she was sixteen years old.[3] As a nineteen-year-old, she represented Australia at the 2000 Summer Olympics in indoor volleyball, where her team finished ninth.[3][4] Following the Sydney Games, she played professional volleyball in the Netherlands until 2003.[3] In 2002, she competed in the World Championships.[3]
Beach volleyball
Bawden is a beach volleyball player.[3] Following the 2008 Summer Olympics, she approached the Adelaide based Australian beach volley programme about the possibility of getting into the sport.[4] Following this, in 2009, she became involved with Australia's National Beach Volleyball Program, making a switch from indoor to beach and was initially teamed up with Becchara Palmer.[3][5] That year, she shared the world beach volleyball association top rookie award with Angie Akers, an American.[3]
At the 2009 Mazury Open in Stare Jablonki, Poland, Bawden and partner Palmer finished second. The competition was part of the FIVB World Tour.[3][6] She and Palmer twice won the Australian Championships, once in 2010 and again in 2011.[6]
In 2011, Palmer and Bawden were Australia's number one ranked team,[3] and the duo finished ninth at the 2011 World Championships.[5] With her partner Palmer, she finished seventeenth at the 2011 FIVB Moscow World Tour in Moscow, Russia.[3] With her partner, she finished fourth at the 2011 FIVB Phuket World Tour in Phuket, Thailand.[3]
In 2012, Bawden and Palmer played in 31 matches, winning 20 of them. This increased their world ranking to 16.[3] With her partner, she finished ninth at the 2012 FIVB Brasília World Tour in Brasília, Brazil.[3] With her partner, she finished fifth at the 2012 FIVB Sanya World Tour in Sanya, China.[3] With her partner, she finished seventeenth at the 2012 FIVB Shanghai World Tour in Shanghai, China.[3] With her partner, she finished ninth at the 2012 FIVB Beijing World Tour in Beijing, China.[3] With her partner, she finished ninth at the 2012 FIVB Rome World Tour in Rome, Italy,[3][5][7] which secured her Olympic berth.[5][7] With her partner, she finished fifth at the 2012 FIVB Moscow World Tour in Moscow, Russia.[3]
Bawden was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in beach volleyball,[3][5][7] in June 2012 following a selection process that was 18 months long and involved becoming one of the sixteen top ranked teams in the world.[4][5] Going into the Olympics, her team was ranked fourteenth in the world, but did not qualify from the poule stages.[5][7][2]
References
- ↑ "Louise Bawden profile". Beach Volleyball Database. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Louise Bawden at sports-reference.com". www.sports-reference.com. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 "London 2012 - Louise Bawden". Australia: Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Colman, Mike (30 June 2012). "Beach volleyballer Louise Bawden's 12-year gap between her first Olympic Games in Sydney and London 2012". News.com.au. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 Bednall, Jai (16 June 2012). "Beach volleyballers Becchara and Louise Bawden qualify for London Olympics". adelaidenow. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "London 2012 - Becchara Palmer". Australia: Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 "Palmer, Bawden book Games spot". Wwos.ninemsn.com.au. Retrieved 2012-07-11.
Awards | ||
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Preceded by Bibiana Candelas (MEX) |
Women's FIVB World Tour "Top Rookie" alongside Angie Akers 2009 |
Succeeded by Markéta Sluková (CZE) |