Elizabeth Mary Coster (born 11 December 1982) is a New Zealand former swimmer, who specialises in backstroke and butterfly events. She helped the New Zealand team to pull off a fourth-place effort and broke a New Zealand record of 4:06.30 in the medley relay at the

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. Coster made her first New Zealand team at the

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, where she competed in the 100 m butterfly. Swimming in heat two, she edged out Singapore's

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to take a third spot by two-tenths of a second (0.20), but shared a twenty-third place tie with Sweden's Johanna Sjöberg in 1:00.61. Coster also teamed up with Hannah McLean,

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, and

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in the 4 × 100 m medley relay. She swam a butterfly leg in heat one with a split of 1:00.38, but the New Zealand team settled for sixth place and thirteenth overall in a final time of 4:10.37. At the

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, Coster shortened her program, swimming only in the

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. She cleared a FINA A-standard entry time of 1:00.93 from the Olympic trials in

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. She posted a time of 1:00.66 to take a fifteenth seed in the top 16 places from the evening's preliminary heats. Followed by the next morning's session, Coster fell short in her bid for the final, as she finished her semifinal run with a slowest time of 1:01.45.

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