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2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 400 Metre Freestyle
The women's 400 metre freestyle competition at the 2014 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships took place on August 23 at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre. The 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships – Women's 400 metre freestyle, last champion was Chloe Sutton of United States. This race consisted of eight lengths of the pool, with all eight being in the Freestyle swimming, freestyle stroke.Swimming technical manual Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan Pacific records were as follows:Results All times are in minutes and seconds.Heats The first round was held on August 23, at 10:47.B Final The B final was held on August 23, at 20:04.< ...
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Gold Coast Aquatic Centre
The Gold Coast Aquatic Centre (also known as the Optus Aquatic Centre for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games) is a public swimming pool complex located in the Southport Broadwater Parklands on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast, Queensland. It was the swimming and diving facility for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. History The ''Gold Coast Aquatic Centre'' opened in the 1960s as the ''Southport Pool''. The complex was renamed to the ''Gold Coast Aquatic Centre'' in the late 2000s. In 2018, the Gold Coast hosted the Commonwealth Games. The ''Gold Coast Aquatic Centre'' was the swimming and diving facility for the event. Approximately $40 million was spent on redeveloping the complex. The redevelopment included the construction of an additional 10-lane Olympic-size swimming pool, competition pool, additional change rooms and new meeting rooms. Although the expansion was expected to be completed by 2017, the construction was brought forward to allow the venue to host the Pan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronte Barratt
Bronte Amelia Arnold Barratt, (born 8 February 1989) is an Australian retired competitive swimmer and Olympic gold medallist. Career Born in Brisbane on 8 February 1989, Barratt was coached by John Rodgers at the Albany Creek Swim Club. At the 2006 World Short Course Championships held in Shanghai, she won a gold medal in the women's 4×200-metre freestyle relay and an individual silver medal in the 400-metre freestyle. In 2007, she broke the oldest record in swimming for Australian women when she broke Tracey Wickham's 29-year-old record in the 400m freestyle. Barratt competed in the 2008 Olympic Games in the women's 200-metre and 400-metre freestyle events. She was also part of the women's 4×200-metre freestyle relay team, winning gold in the final, and breaking the now-previous world record by a full six seconds. She swam the second 200 metres after Stephanie Rice, and before Kylie Palmer and Linda Mackenzie. In 2009, she received the Medal of the Order of Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liu Yiru
Liu (; or ) is an East Asian surname. pinyin: in Mandarin Chinese, in Cantonese. It is the family name of the Han dynasty emperors. The character originally meant 'battle axe', but is now used only as a surname. It is listed 252nd in the classic text Hundred Family Surnames. Today, it is the 4th most common surname in mainland China as well as one of the most common surnames in the world. Distribution In 2019 劉 was the fourth most common surname in mainland China. Additionally, it was the most common surname in Jiangxi province. In 2013 it was found to be the 5th most common surname, shared by 67,700,000 people or 5.1% of the population, with the province with the most people being Shandong.中国四百大姓, 袁义达, 邱家儒, Beijing Book Co. Inc., 1 January 2013 Origin One source is that they descend from the Qí (祁) clan of Emperor Yao. For example, the founding emperor of the Han dynasty (one of China's golden ages), Liu Bang (Emperor Gaozu of Han) was a descend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miho Takahashi
is a Japanese swimmer who competes in the Women's 400m individual medley. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she finished 20th overall in the heats in the Women's 400 metre individual medley A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and women with functional uteruses ... and failed to reach the final. References 1992 births Living people Olympic swimmers for Japan Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Japanese female medley swimmers Swimmers at the 2014 Asian Games Summer World University Games medalists in swimming FISU World University Games silver medalists for Japan Asian Games competitors for Japan Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade Sportspeople from Kyoto Prefecture 21st-century Japanese sportswomen {{ Japan-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tabitha Baumann
Tabitha () is an English feminine given name, originating with (or made popular through) Tabitha (Dorcas), mentioned in the New Testament Acts 9:36. In the Bible Tabitha, or Dorcas, the Greek equivalent of the name, is a woman mentioned in the New Testament. The English name is derived from an Aramaic word, /ܛܒܝܬܐ ''ṭaḇīṯā'' " emalegazelle", cf. '' Tzviya'' (classical ''ṣəḇīyāh''). It is a biblical name from Acts of the Apostles (), which in the original Greek was , in which Tabitha, a benevolent woman, dies, then gets resurrected by Peter the Apostle. Use in the United States and the United Kingdom The name was common in 18th century New England, and of those born between 1718 and 1745, ranked about 31st as most common female given names, about 0.56% of the population. The name gained a resurgence in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, when it was ranked among the 200 most popular names for girls. The character Tabitha Stephens, a child witch on the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Lucie-Smith
Samantha Lucie-Smith (born 26 July 1992) is a New Zealand swimmer. She competed in the 4 × 200 metre freestyle relay event at the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the .... References New Zealand female freestyle swimmers 1992 births Olympic swimmers for New Zealand[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alyson Ackman
Alyson Patricia "Aly" Ackman (born 6 February 1993) is a professional swimmer competing on the Canadian National Swim Team since 2013. In 2016, she retired from her professional swimming career to pursue a career as a personal trainer and swimming coach. Before her retirement, she won a silver medal in the 4 x 200 Freestyle relay and a bronze in the 4 x 100 Freestyle relay at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. At the 2014 FINA Pan Pacific Championships Ackman came 12th in the 200m freestyle, 14th in the 100m freestyle, 18th in the 400m freestyle, 4th in the 4×100 freestyle, and won bronze in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. In 2015 Ackman competed at the Pan American Games and the FINA World Championship (Kazan, Russia). During the Pan American Games, she earned a gold medal in 4 X 100 Freestyle and 4 X 200 Freestyle events. Coming out of retirement in January 2019, Ackman competed in several international meets, including the 2018 Canadian Swimming Trials and Swimming N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Robinson (open Water Swimmer)
Emma Kay Robinson (born 26 September 1994) is a New Zealand swimmer who competed for her country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She competed in the women's 800 metre freestyle but did not qualify for the final. Personal life Robinson was born on 26 September 1994 in Wellington, New Zealand. Of Māori descent, Robinson affiliates to the Ngāpuhi iwi. She studied at the Victoria University of Wellington, where she was awarded a Blue for swimming. Career Robinson is a member of the Capital Swim Club in Wellington. In 2013, she swam at the 15th FINA World Championships held in Barcelona, Spain. Competing in the women's 10 km open water event she placed 34th in a time of two hours one minute 47.6 seconds. In the 5 km event she finished 24th in a time of 57 minutes 29.5 seconds. She competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games held in Glasgow, Scotland. She swam in the 200 metre and 800 metre freestyle and in the 4 × 200 metre freestyle r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chihi Igarashi
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Aya Takano (swimmer)
is a Japanese swimmer, who was selected to the national team to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, after having accepted an invitation from FINA, based on her B-standard time. She competed in the women's 400 m freestyle, where she placed twenty-sixth in the heats, with a time of 4:12.33. She also joined the women's national team for the women's freestyle relay events, where she and her teammates finished in seventh and eighth place, respectively. Takano is a sports science student at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan Kyoto ( or ; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it the ninth-most pop ..., and is currently a member of Itoman Club, being trained by Masato Nishiwaki. References Living people Olympic swimmers for Japan Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Ibaraki, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Cleverton
Samantha is an English feminine given name in use since the 17th century that is of uncertain derivation. It is now in popular use worldwide due to various popular culture influences. Etymology Some etymologists have suggested Samantha might be a derivative of Semanthe, a similar name likely invented by English playwright Sir John Suckling for a character in his play '' Aglaura'', which was first staged in England in 1637. Semanthe was later used by other English or Irish writers for characters in works of fiction published in the 17th and 18th centuries, including for a character in the 1682 tragic play '' The Loyal Brother'' by Irish dramatist Thomas Southerne, a character in the 1690 tragic play '' The Treacherous Brothers'' by English playwright George Powell, a character in the 1699 tragic play ''Friendship Improved'' by Anglo-Irish dramatist Charles Hopkins, a character in the 1705 tragic play ''Ulysses'' by English dramatist Nicholas Rowe, a character in the 1718 histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |