Emily Seebohm
Emily Jane Seebohm ( born July 5, 1992, Adelaide, Australia) is an Australian swimmer.
Career
When she was two years old, she moved to Brisbane, Queensland, where she began swimming at the age of five years. In the Junior Pan Pacific Championships in 2007, she won the title over 100m backstroke and 4 × 100 m medley relay.
In the swimming world championships in 2007 in Melbourne, it was as a 14- year-old already fourth in the 100m back and thus the best Australian in this race. She was then jointly with Libby Lenton, Jessicah Schipper and Leisel Jones in the 4 × 100 m medley relay used and won gold.
The Australian qualification competitions for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing Seebohm swam in the semifinals in the 50m backstroke in 27.95 seconds set a new world record at this track. By this time she was the first woman who remained on this route under 28 seconds. But he held no longer than 24 hours and has been improved in the final of Sophie Edington at 27.67 seconds. At this final Seebohm but not participated in itself, since it is not in the 50m backstroke at an Olympic distance and they wanted to concentrate on the 100 m. In the Olympics, they missed the 100m back in ninth place just the finals, but ultimately won the 4 × 100 m medley relay gold medal.
2010 Seebohm was at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi with a total of seven medals, the most successful swimmer ever. She won the 100m back, with the 4x100 -meter freestyle relay and the 4x100 -meter medley relay. Added to this was the silver medal in the 100m freestyle and 200m individual medley and bronze in the 50m butterfly and 200m backstroke.