Kirsty Coventry
Kirsty Leigh Coventry ( born September 16, 1983 in Harare ) is a swimmer from Zimbabwe.
Career
Coventry rose on top of the world when she moved to Auburn University in the U.S. and trained there. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, it reached an Olympic semi-finals as the first swimmer from Zimbabwe. Finally became a folk hero of their home was the athlete of the year 2000 in Zimbabwe in Athens when she became the first Olympic champion of their country in a single competition at the 2004 Olympic Games. Overall, Coventry won three medals: gold in 200m backstroke, 100m backstroke silver and bronze over 200m medley.
In the swimming world championships in 2005 in Montreal, she won over 200 m medley, first the silver medal, then 100m backstroke before Antje Schulte bush and the 200 m backstroke gold medal. On the last day of the World Championships, she was still a silver medal in the 400 m medley behind the US-American Katie Hoff, who was already in the 200m individual medley in front of her, adding to their collection.
Kirsty Coventry in 2005 was the most successful participant in world swimming championships and competed for the U.S. university swim team Auburn Tigers.
16 February 2008 Coventry could break the existing world record for over 16 years by Krisztina Egerszegi on the 200 m backstroke distance. But only five months later, at the Olympic trials in the U.S., pushed the U.S. swimmer Margaret Hoelzer Coventry's record by 30 hundredths.
In the same year Coventry took part in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. There she won the gold medal in the 200m backstroke and three silver medals. About 200 m and 400 m medley she was beaten depends only on the Australian Stephanie Rice, about 100 meters back from the American Natalie Coughlin.
She won the 100m backstroke and 200 meters and 400 meters individual medley at the Pan-African Games 2011.