Libby Trickett
Lisbeth Trickett at the World Swimming Championships 2009
Lisbeth " Libby " Constance Trickett ( née Lenton, born January 28, 1985 in Townsville ) is a former Australian swimmer.
Career
Trickett is one of the fastest freestyle sprinters in the world. For the first time she attended an international sensation when she at the World Swimming Championships 2003 in Barcelona about 50 m freestyle won the bronze medal. At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, she won at this track as well as the bronze medal. The final breakthrough in the world she managed to peak in 2005. Swimming In the 2005 World Championships in Montreal, she won gold in the 50m freestyle and the silver medal in the 100 m Butterfly. In addition, two gold medals came with the Australian 4x100 m Freestyle and Medley relays. After the World Championships, she launched in Australia at the Short Course World Championships and improved within 24 hours, twice the world record in the 100m freestyle at 51.91 seconds at first, then to 51.70 seconds. The old world record by Therese Alshammar since 2000 was 52.17 seconds. She was the first woman who was on a short course less than 52 seconds. In the swimming world championships in 2007 in Melbourne Lenton won gold over 50 m freestyle, 100 m freestyle and 100 m butterfly. These two gold medals come with the Australian 4x100 m freestyle and 4x100 m Medley relays.
In traditional country comparison between the U.S. and Australia to the World Championships in Melbourne she swam 52.99 seconds over 100 m freestyle, and is the first woman to be put back this distance in less than 53 seconds. FINA does not recognize this time as a world record because Lenton she scored as a starting swimmer a mixed relay race against American Michael Phelps.
Libby Lenton Easter 2007 married the Australian swimmer Luke Trickett and launched for the first time at the Australian qualifying race for the Olympic Games in Beijing under its new name Trickett. With this match they improved the world record in the 100m freestyle the German Britta Steffen by 42 hundredths of a second to 52.88 seconds and the 50 m freestyle by Marleen Veldhuis by 12 hundredths of 23.97 seconds. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Trickett won the gold medal in the 100 m butterfly, the silver medal in the 100 m freestyle, the bronze medal with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, and finally a second gold medal in the 4 × 100 m medley relay.