Tamika Domrow (born 6 September 1989) is an Australian synchronized swimmer. She competed in the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Nat ...

, where her team finished seventh and the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, th ...

, where Australia finished in eighth.

Personal

Domrow was born on 6 September 1989 in

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and is from

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. She attended Samford State School and

St Paul's School, Bald Hills , motto_translation = By Faith and By Learning , location = , Brisbane, Queensland , country = Australia , type = Independent co-educational early learning, primary and secondary day school , denomination = Angl ...

. She has a Certificate in Companion Animal Services. , she lives in

and works for Samford Pet Resort as an apprentice kennel technician. Her employer accommodated her training schedule. Domrow is tall, weighs and is right handed. Tamika is married to Mathew Glover.

Synchronized swimming

Domrow is a synchronized swimmer, taking up the sport at the Valley Pool in Brisbane when she was ten years old. In 2008, she was a member of Neptunes Synchronised Swimming Club. a member of the Gold Coast Mermaids. She was coached by Mike Burgess. Her former coach died in July 2008, not long before the 2008 Games. She has been coached by Marina Kholod since 2005. Domrow broke into Australia's senior national team when she was fifteen years old. In 2007, she competed at the FINA world championships in the team event. The ten person team was the first Australian one to make it in the finals for the synchronised swimming free combination routine. Domrow competed at the

as an eighteen-year-old. Her team came in seventh. Prior to going to Beijing, she participated in a ten-day training camp at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre. Following the Beijing Games, she retired from the sport for eighteen months. Domrow and Jenny-Lyn Anderson competed in the Open Free Duet at the 2011 National Championships, coming away with a fourth-place finish. In 2012, she competed with the national team at events in Perth, Spain and New Caledonia. Domrow was selected to represent

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at the

in synchronized swimming. She qualified for the Olympics as a member of the national team at the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai. At her second Games, she will be twenty-two years old. In preparation for the Games, she spent up to nine hours a day in the pool.

References

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