Madeline Groves (born 25 May 1995) is an Australian competitive

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. She was the Australian national champion in the 200 m butterfly event in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. At the

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she was a bronze medallist in the 200 m butterfly event, and swam in the heats for the gold medal-winning Australian freestyle relay team. She was selected to represent Australia in the 100 m and 200 m butterfly, and 4 × 200 m freestyle relay events at the

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Biography

Madeline Groves was born in

Brisbane Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the states and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland, and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a populati ...

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, on 25 May 1995. She has two brothers. She attended Wilston State Primary School and

St Peters Lutheran College , motto_translation = ''Further beyond'' , established = , authority = Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority , schooltype = Private school , gender = Co-educati ...

. In 2014, she was an inaugural recipient of the Georgina Hope Rinehart Swimming Excellence Scholarship to study for a

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degree at

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on Queensland's

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. Groves learned to swim when she was a baby, and started

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when she was twelve years old. As a junior, she won the 100 m and 200 m

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and 4 × 100 m medley events, and silver in the 50 m butterfly, at the

2010 Oceania Swimming Championships The 8th Oceania Swimming Championships were held 21–26 June 2010, at the Tuanaimato Aquatic Centre in Apia, Apia, Samoa. It was the eight edition of the biennial championships, and featured competition in Swimming (sport), swimming, open water swi ...

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. At the Junior Pan Pacific championships in

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that year she came second in the 200 m butterfly and fifth in the 100 m butterfly events. She took 2011 off, but returned to competitive swimming after she finished high school. She is coached by

Michael Bohl Michael Bohl is an Australian swimming coach, working for the Australian Swim Team and Griffith University. Bohl is the coach of swimmer Emma McKeon, who represented Australia in the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Olympics, and former ...

at St Peter's Western, where

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and

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also train. She has known Bohl since 2008, and he has been her coach since 2012. She has been nicknamed "Mad Dog" and "Machine Gun". In 2013, Groves became the national champion at the 2013 Australian Swimming Championships in the 200 m butterfly event. During 2014, Groves suffered from debilitating pain in her shoulder and neck. This was traced to a clenched jaw, which has been treated by an

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. She defended her national title in the 200 m butterfly event at the

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, and the

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, and in Adelaide in April 2016 at the 2016 Australian Swimming Championships, where she was second in the 100 m butterfly. At the

she was a bronze medallist in the 200 m butterfly event, and swam in the heats for the gold medal-winning Australian freestyle relay team. At the

2015 World Aquatics Championships The 16th FINA World Aquatics Championships, FINA World Championships (russian: Чемпионат мира по водным видам спорта 2015), also Aquatics 2015, were held in Kazan, Russia from 24 July to 9 August 2015. Russia host ...

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, Russia, she was 9th in the 200m butterfly and 11th in the 100 m butterfly events. She swam in the heats of the

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, in which the Australian team went on to win. In April 2016, Groves was selected to represent Australia in the 100 m and 200 m butterfly, and 4 × 200 m freestyle relay events at the

. This was her first Olympics. She did not qualify for the semi-final in the 100 m butterfly, but qualified fastest for the final of the 200 m butterfly. She won silver, finishing just three-hundredths of a second behind Spain's

Mireia Belmonte ] Mireia Belmonte García (born 10 November 1990) is a Spanish Olympic, world, and European champion Swimming (sport), swimmer. She is the world record holder in the short course 200-metre butterfly and 400-metre individual medley. Formerl ...

. In June 2021, she announced she was withdrawing from the Australian trials for the

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in protest over "misogynistic perverts in sport and their bootlickers," stating that her decision was "the culmination of years of witnessing and 'benefitting' from a culture that relies on people ignoring bad behaviour to thrive." In December 2020, she had made a post on social media revealing that she had made a complaint to Swimming Australia after a coach made an inappropriate comment towards her.

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