Marieke Guehrer

Marieke Guehrer

Personal information
Full name	Marieke Katherine Guehrer
Nickname(s)	MG
Nationality	Australia
Born	9 February 1986 (1986-02-09) (age 25) Adelaide
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	72 kilograms (160 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Stroke(s)	Backstroke, Butterfly, Freestyle
Club	Melbourne Vicentre
Medal record Competitor for  Australia World Championships (LC) Gold 2009 Rome 50 m Butterfly Bronze 2009 Rome 4x100 m Freestyle World Championships (SC) Bronze 2010 Dubai 4×100 m medley Commonwealth Games Gold 2010 Delhi 4×100 m freestyle Silver 2010 Delhi 50 m butterfly Pan Pacific Championships Gold 2010 Irvine 50 m butterfly Summer Universiade Gold 2011 Shenzhen 4x100 m freestyle Silver 2011 Shenzhen 50 m butterfly

Marieke Katherine Guehrer (born 9 February 1986) is an Australian swimmer who is the world record holder in the 50 metres butterfly short course. She clocked 24.99 seconds^[1]

After her breakout meet in late 2008, Guehrer broke her personal best times in several events, also breaking the short course 50 m butterfly world record. At the 2009 Telstra Aus trials, she earned an individual spot in the 100 m freestyle clocking 54.28 along with a spot on the 4x100 m Freestyle relay team. The next day she clocked 25.60 s in the 50 m Butterfly, easily making the qualifying time and becoming the third fastest in history in that event, after some thunderous times posted in the semi-finals, the fasted qualifiers failed to match their times in the final, and Guehrer won gold.

At the 2009 World Aquatics Championships, Guehrer picked up her first medal on day one with a bronze medal in the 4x100 m freestyle relay. With a tremendously fast semi-finals in the 50 m Butterfly, from lane 6 Guehrer caused an upset capturing gold.

At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Guehrer won silver in the 50m butterfly final to Francesca Halsall and won gold in the 4 by 100 freestyle relay.

Career Best Times

• LONG COURSE (50m Pool)
  • 50m butterfly– 25.48 (Commonwealth Record)
  • 100m butterfly – 58.08
  • 50m freestyle – 24.87
• SHORT COURSE (25m Pool)
  • 50m butterfly– 24.69 (Commonwealth Record)
  • 50m freestyle – 23.74 (Commonwealth Record)
  • 50m backstroke – 25.98 (Commonwealth Record)
  • 50m Butterfly 100m backstroke (Australian Record)

References

1. ^ Williams, Rebecca (18 November 2008). "Marieke Guehrer wins $156,000 in world record time". Herald Sun. http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24666846-14641,00.html. 

External links

Official website

Records
Preceded by Therese Alshammar	Women's 50 metre butterfly world record holder (short course) 15 November 2008 – 17 October 2009	Succeeded by Therese Alshammar
Preceded by Sanja Jovanović	Women's 50 metre backstroke world record holder (short course) 6 November 2009 – 10 November 2009	Succeeded by Zhao Jing
Sporting positions
Preceded by Therese Alshammar	Female World Cup Overall Winner 2008	Succeeded by Jessica Hardy

Persondata
Name	Guehrer, Marieke
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	9 February 1986
Place of birth	Adelaide
Date of death
Place of death