Iona Anderson (born 3 October 2005) is an Australian swimmer. She won one gold medal and two silver medals at the
2024 World Aquatics Championships
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.
Career
Anderson attended Carine Senior High School and trained at the Breakers Swim Club before moving to the
Western Australian Institute of Sport in Perth.
Anderson won silver in the 100-meter backstroke and gold in the 50-meter backstroke at the
2023 Junior World Championships. She won another gold medal with the 4 x 100-meter medley relay. She received a silver medal for her participation in the 4 x 100-meter mixed medley relay. In both relays, she was only used in the preliminary rounds;
Jaclyn Barclay swam in the finals.
At the
2024 World Championships in Doha,
Claire Curzan won the 100-meter backstroke competition with a lead of 0.83 seconds. Anderson finished second, 0.06 seconds ahead of Canadian
Ingrid Wilm
Ingrid Wilm (born 8 June 1998) is a Canadian swimmer, specializing in the backstroke.
Career
She competed in the women's 50 metre backstroke event at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), in Hangzhou, China.
Ingrid Wilm swam fo ...
. Barclay finished fourth, 0.10 seconds behind Wilm. In the 50-meter backstroke, Curzan won by 0.02 seconds ahead of Anderson, while Wilm was 0.16 seconds behind Anderson and also received bronze. The Australian 4 x 100-meter medley relay team, consisting of Barclay,
Abbey Harkin
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,
Alexandria Perkins
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and
Brianna Throssell, qualified for the final with the third fastest preliminary time. In the final, Anderson, Harkin, Throssell and
Shayna Jack
Shayna Jack (born 6 November 1998) is an Australian swimmer. She competed at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships, where she won two silver and two bronze medals in the relay events.
From 2019 to 2021, Jack served a 24 month suspension uphel ...
were five seconds faster than the preliminary relay team and won ahead of the Swedes and the Canadians.
Anderson finished second in the 100-meter backstroke at the 2024 Australian Championships and won the title with the 4 x 100-meter freestyle relay.
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2005 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Perth, Western Australia
Sportswomen from Western Australia
Australian female backstroke swimmers
Australian female freestyle swimmers
Australian female medley swimmers
Swimmers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Olympic swimmers for Australia
21st-century Australian sportswomen
World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming