Emily Seebohm

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swimmername= Emily Seebohm


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Emily Seebohm (born 5 June 1992) is an Australian swimmer from Adelaide, South Australia. She won a gold in the 4 x 100 Medley Relay final, swimming backstroke, at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships, held in Melbourne on 31 March 2007.

Seebohm has also won gold in both 100 m backstroke and the 4x100 Medley Relay at the 2007 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.

Seebohm currently attends St John Fisher College, a Catholic school for girls at Bracken Ridge, and formerly attended St Margaret's Anglican Girls School.

On 6 March 2008 at the Brisbane Catholic Schoolgirls Championships, Seebohm broke the 50 metre backstroke Commonwealth and Australian records with a time 28.10 seconds, missing Li Yang's then world record of 28.09 by one hundredth of a second.cite news|title=Rice and Seebohm is smashed world records|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/swimming/rice-breaks-world-record/2008/03/22/1205602729482.html|publisher="The Sydney Morning Herald"|date=2008-03-22|accessdate=2008-03-24] Sixteen days later on 22 March 2008, Seebohm broke the world record in the 50 metre backstroke semi-final at the 2008 Australian Championships, with a time of 27.95s, taking five hundredths of a second off Hayley McGregory's world record of 28.00 set only 15 days eariler on 7 March 2008. [cite news|title=McGregory breaks 50m backstoke world record|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/09/2184450.htm|publisher="ABC News"|date=2008-03-09|accessdate=2008-03-24] A day later, this record was beaten again, this time by Australian Sophie Edington in a time of 27.67 seconds in the final of the same event.cite news|first=Michael|last=Cowley|title=Teenager's hold on world time short-lived|url=http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2008/03/23/1206206933202.html|publisher="The Age"|date=2008-03-24|accessdate=2008-03-24] Seebohm decided not to swim in the final of this event as it is not an Olympic event and instead decided to focus on the semi-final of the 100 metre backstroke. Her decision paid off when she became the first Australian woman to break the one-minute barrier in the event, her 59.78 making her the fifth-fastest of all-time. She then lowered the record to 59.58 s in the final, winning the Australian championship and gaining selection for the Olympic Games in Beijing.

References

External links

* [https://www.clubsonline.com.au/console/customitem/attachments/Emily%20Seebohm.pdf Profile from Swimming Australia]
* Videos & Results on [http://www.swimpassion.net/Athletes/emilyseebohm.html SwimPassion.net]