Felicity Galvez
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Full name | Felicity Madeline Galvez | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Melbourne, Victoria | 4 March 1985|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle, butterfly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | SOPAC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Felicity Madeline Galvez, OAM[1] (born 4 March 1985) is an Australian swimmer and two-time Olympic gold medalist. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[2] She was educated at Runnymede College in Madrid.
Career
She broke both the short course 50-metre and 100-metre butterfly world records in 2008, in 25.32 and 55.89, respectively. The 100-metre record lasted for less than a month, as teammate Libby Trickett lowered it on 26 April 2008. The 50-metre record was broken by Therese Alshammar during the Stockholm stop of the 2008 FINA World Cup Series, but Marieke Guehrer returned it to Australian hands just days later. Galvez broke the 100m butterfly short course world record again at the 2009 FINA World Cup Series in Stockholm with a 55.46. That is 0.22 seconds faster than the previous mark of 55.68 set by Australian teammate, Jessicah Schipper on 12 August 2009.
Career best times
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See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)
- List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (women)
- World record progression 50 metres butterfly
- World record progression 100 metres butterfly
References
- ^ "Galvez, Felicity Madeline". It's An Honour. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 26 January 2009.
- ^ AIS at the Olympics Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- Use dmy dates from May 2011
- 1985 births
- Living people
- Australian female swimmers
- World record setters in swimming
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers of Australia
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- Sportswomen from Victoria (Australia)
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Swimmers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Female freestyle swimmers
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Australian Institute of Sport swimmers
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- People educated at MLC School
- Sportspeople from Melbourne
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Olympic gold medalists in swimming
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming