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Stephanie Rice
Stephanie Louise Rice, OAM (born 17 June 1988) is an Australian former competitive swimmer. She won three gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia on 26 January 2009. On 9 April 2014, she confirmed her retirement. Career Rice was the gold medallist in the 200-metre individual medley at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, where she defeated Olympians Brooke Hanson and Lara Carroll in a time of 2:12.90, a personal best by 1.19 seconds. She also won the 400-metre individual medley. At the 2007 Melbourne World Championships she won a bronze medal in the 200-metre individual medley in a time of 2 minutes 11.42 seconds, breaking the previous Australian record by a second. American Katie Hoff won the gold in 2:10.13, with Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe in second place. Rice once again placed third, earning her second bronze medal in the 400-metre individual medley final. In a new personal best time Rice fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medley Swimming
Medley is a combination of four different swimming styles—backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle—into one race. This race is either swum by one swimmer as individual medley (IM) or by four swimmers as a medley relay. Individual medley Individual medley consists of a single swimmer swimming equal distances of four different strokes within one race. Stroke order Individual medley consists of four strokes. These four strokes go in an order by Butterfly, Backstroke, Breaststroke and finally Freestyle. The swimmer will swim one quarter of the race in each style, in a certain order. The strokes are swum in this order: # Butterfly # Backstroke # Breaststroke # Freestyle (4th can be any stroke except butterfly, backstroke, or breaststroke; most swimmers use the front crawl). Competitions A number of competitions in the individual medley are regularly contested, by both men and women. The competitions are limited in that every distance must consist of either four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 Metre Medley Relay
The Women's 4x100m Medley Relay at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships took place on August 1, 2009 at the Foro Italico Foro Italico is a sports complex in Rome, Italy, on the slopes of Monte Mario. It was built between 1928 and 1938 as the Foro Mussolini (literally Mussolini's Forum) under the design of Enrico Del Debbio and, later, Luigi Moretti. Inspired by t ... in Rome, Italy. Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows: The following records were established during the competition: Results Heats Final External linksPreliminary Results {{DEFAULTSORT:Swimming at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships - Women's 4 x 100 metre medley relay [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2006 Commonwealth Games – Women's 400 Metre Individual Medley
The article provides table of standings of Women's 400 metres individual medley final and Women's 400 metres individual medley heats. Final The Women's 400 metres individual medley final was held at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre on the 21 March 2006 at 19:38 AEST.Official Melbourne 2006 Swimming Schedule and Results Heats The Women's 400 metres individual medley heats were held at the on the 21 March 2006 at 10:38 |
Swimming At The 2006 Commonwealth Games – Women's 200 Metre Individual Medley
Women's 200 m Individual Medley - Final Women's 200 m Individual Medley - Heats Women's 200 m Individual Medley - Heat 01 Women's 200 m Individual Medley - Heat 02 Women's 200 m Individual Medley - Heat 03 {{DEFAULTSORT:Swimming At The 2006 Commonwealth Games - Women's 200 Metres Individual Medley 200 metres individual medley The 200-metre individual medley is a race in competitive swimming in which swimmers compete in all 4 strokes (butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle) in one race, with each leg being 50 metres in length. The stroke order is different t ... 2006 in women's swimming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2006 Commonwealth Games
The Aquatics events at the 2006 Commonwealth Games were held at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre (MSAC) and were divided into 3 separate disciplines, with medals awarded in 54 events: *Diving (10) *Swimming (42) *Synchronized swimming (2) Announcing for the Diving, Swimming and Synchronized swimming was done by local swimmer and radio announcer Alex Cooke. Overall medal table Diving Men's events Women's events Medal table Swimming Men's events ;Legend: *WR: World record, (EAD events: World record) *GR: Games record **: Swam only in the heats Women's events ;Legend: *WR: World record, (EAD events: World record) *GR: Games record Medal table Synchronised swimming Women's events Medal table References * * * {{Commonwealth Games Aquatics 2006 Commonwealth Games events 2006 Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event amon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 400 Metre Individual Medley
The women's 400 metre individual medley competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 18 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place. The last champion was Jennifer Reilly of Australia. This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool. The first two lengths were swum using the butterfly stroke, the second pair with the backstroke
Backstroke or back crawl is one of the four swimming styles used in competitive events regulated by FINA, and the only one of these styles sw ...
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2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 200 Metre Individual Medley
The women's 200 metre individual medley competition at the 2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 20 at the Saanich Commonwealth Place. The last champion was Tomoko Hagiwara of Japan. This race consisted of four lengths of the pool, one each in , , and |
2006 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships
The tenth edition of the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, a long course (50 m) event, was held in 2006 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, from August 17–20. Six world records A world record is usually the best global and most important performance that is ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill, sport, or other kind of activity. The book ''Guinness World Records'' and other world records organization ... were tallied compared to one from the 2002 edition. This edition was slower than it would have been because of the lack of a full strength Australian team, one of the strongest teams in the world. This made it a common situation that swimmers in the B final were swimming fast enough to place in the top 3 since no country is allowed to have more than 2 swimmers in either final heat. Results Men's events Women's events Medal table New records achieved World records Championship records Notes and references See also * All-time Pan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 Metre Medley Relay
The women's 4 x 100 metre medley competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 30 with the heats and the final. The American team consisting of Natalie Coughlin, Rebecca Soni, Dana Vollmer, and Missy Franklin won the gold in an Americas record time of 3:52.36. Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Results Heats 17 teams participated in 3 heats. Final The final was held at 19:45. References External links2011 World Aquatics Championships: Women's 4 x 100 metre medley relay start list from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23.FINA World Championships, Swimming: United States Smokes Women's 400 Medley Relay; Rattles World Record; Sets American Record, Textile Best ''Swimming World Magazine'' (2011-07-30); retrieved 2011-08-09. {{DEFAULTSORT:Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships - Women's 4 x 100 metre medley relay Medley relay 4x100 metre, women's W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2011 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 Metre Individual Medley
The women's 400 metre individual medley competition of the swimming events at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships was held on July 31 with the heats the final. Records Prior to the competition, the existing world and championship records were as follows. Results Heats 36 swimmers participated in 5 heats. Final The final was held at 19:19. References External links2011 World Aquatics Championships: Women's 400 metre individual medley start list from OmegaTiming.com; retrieved 2011-07-23. {{DEFAULTSORT:Swimming at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships - Women's 400 metre individual medley Individual medley 400 metre, women's World Aquatics Championships The FINA World Championships or World Aquatics Championships are the World Championships for aquatics sports: swimming, diving, high diving, open water swimming, artistic swimming, and water polo. They are run by FINA, and all swimming events ar ... 2011 in women's swimming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2011 World Aquatics Championships
The swimming portion of the 2011 FINA World Championships was held July 24–31 at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, China. Swimming is one of five aquatic disciplines at the championships. Qualifying criteria In January 2010, the FINA Bureau approved the swimming qualification system for the 2011 World Aquatics Championships. This represented the first time that a qualification system (including time standards) was used for the swimming portion of the world championships. Times had to be swum at a FINA approved competition/meet between March 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011. The qualification meets included continental championships in 2010 and 2011 (e.g. European Championships, Asian Games, Pan American Games); and international competitions approved by FINA in advance. All meets for the qualification were swam in 50 meters course. The qualifying system for individual events was similar to what is employed for the Olympics. Historically, there has been a limit of 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2009 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 400 Metre Individual Medley
The heats and finals for the women's 400 m individual medley race at the 2009 World Championships took place in the morning and evening of 2 August at the Foro Italico in Rome, Italy. The order of swimming in the medley is: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke Breaststroke is a swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a large portion of the time, and that it can be s ..., freestyle. Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and competition records were as follows: The following records were established during the competition: Results Heats Finals External links Heats Results [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
