Danni Miatke

Danni Miatke

Personal information
Full name	Danni Miatke
Nationality	Australia
Born	29 November 1987 (1987-11-29) (age 23) Darwin, Northern Territory
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Stroke(s)	freestyle, butterfly
Medal record Competitor for  Australia World Championships Gold 2005 Montreal 50 m butterfly Gold 2007 Melbourne 4 x 100 m freestyle relay Silver 2007 Melbourne[1] 50 m butterfly World Championships - Short Course Gold 2006 Shanghai 4 x 100 m medley relay Silver 2004 Indianapolis[2] 4 x 200m freestyle relay Silver 2006 Shanghai 4 x 100m freestyle relay Bronze 2004 Indianapolis 4 x 100m freestyle relay Bronze 2004 Indianapolis 4 x 100m medley relay Commonwealth Games Gold 2006 Melbourne[3] 50 m butterfly

Danni Miatke (born 29 November 1987) is an Australian swimmer.

Biography

Born in Darwin, Northern Territory in 1987, Miatke began competitive swimming in 1995. She first represented the Northern Territory in 1998 at the national School Sport Swimming and Diving Championships. She first won gold for the Territory in 1999 at the Australian Age Championships, in the 100 metres backstroke in the under-13 division. Her coach in the Northern Territory was Jay Davies, from the Northern Territory Institute of Sport.

Miatke moved to Melbourne, Victoria in 2002 to pursue a career in professional swimming. Until the end of 2005, she was a student at Carey Baptist Grammar School in the Melbourne suburb of Kew. Where she was previously a member of the Carey Aquatic Swim Club (Now Known as the CA Tritons, under coach Rohan Taylor. Miatke is currently a member of the Melbourne ViCentre swimming club under coach Ian Pope. Miatke's interests include reading. Danni is interestingly afraid of the ocean.^[4]

In 2002 Miatke was the winner of the NT Junior Sports Person of the Year Award and 2006 the winner of the NT Sports Person of the Year Award. In 2004 she was named the Fisher & Paykel Female Youth Swimmer of Year by Swimming Australia. Other awards include the 2002 Northern Territory Institute of Sport National Athlete of the Year and 2006 Northern Territory Young Achievers Sports Award, 2006 and 2007 Victorian Junior Female Athlete of the Year, also in 2006, Miatke was a finalist in the Northern Territory for the Young Australian of the Year Award.^[5]

At the 2004 FINA Short Course World Championships in Indianapolis, United States, Miatke won silver in the 4x200 metre freestyle relay, and bronze in both the 4x100 metre freestyle relay and 4x100 metre medley relay. Her best individual result at the meet was thirteenth in the 200 metre freestyle. The 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, Canada were Miatke's first international long-course meet. She won gold in the 50 metres butterfly in Commonwealth record time, ahead of world record holder Anna-Karin Kammerling from Sweden.^[6]

In 2006, Miatke won the 50 metres butterfly at the Telstra Commonwealth Games Trials and finished fifth in the 100 metres, qualifying for the Australian Commonwealth Games team.^[7] At the 2006 Commonwealth Games, in her adopted home town of Melbourne, Miatke won gold in the 50 metres butterfly.^[8]

Personal bests

Long course

• 50 m butterfly: 26.05s(Commonwealth record)
• 100 m butterfly: 59.98s
• 100 m freestyle: 56.14s

See also

• Commonwealth Games records in swimming

References

1. ^ "12th FINA World Championships". Archived from the original on 2007-06-06. http://web.archive.org/web/20070606111744/http://www.fina.org/events/WC/Melbourne_2007/results/swimming.php. Retrieved 2007-06-09. 
2. ^ "Montreal 2005 Results". Archived from the original on 2007-01-28. http://web.archive.org/web/20070128064425/http://www.fina.org/events/WC/Montreal_2005/results/sw.php. Retrieved 2007-06-09. 
3. ^ "Swimming Schedule and Results". http://www.melbourne2006.com.au/Schedule+and+Results/By+Sport/Aquatics%20Swimming. Retrieved 2007-08-22. 
4. ^ "Athlete Profile > Danni Miatke". Victorian Institute of Sport. Archived from the original on 2005-12-27. http://web.archive.org/web/20051227203247/http://www.vis.org.au/profile.asp?ToPage=profilesbysport.asp&PersonTypeID=1&ProfileID=735. Retrieved 2006-03-18. 
5. ^ "Danni Miatke". Australian of the Year Awards 2006. http://www.australianoftheyear.gov.au/bio.asp?pID=257. Retrieved 2006-03-18. ^{[dead link]}
6. ^ ABC/Reuters/AFP (2005-07-31). "Miatke strikes gold in Canada". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200507/s1426455.htm. 
7. ^ "Swimmer Profile - Danni Miatke". Swimming Australia. http://www.swimming.org.au/National%20Team/Profiles/profile.aspx?pid={00F2A4FB-82A8-4485-9EC5-EB2D495A42F2}. Retrieved 2006-03-18. ^{[dead link]}
8. ^ "Biography - Danni Miatke". Melbourne 2006. http://melbourne2006.com.au/Participants/Participants?ID=110091. Retrieved 2006-03-18. 

External links

• Swimming Australia profile for Danni Miatke

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Name	Miatke, Danni
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Date of birth	29 November 1987
Place of birth	Darwin, Northern Territory
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