Kylie Palmer
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Kylie Jayne Palmer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | ![]() |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Brisbane, Queensland |
25 February 1990 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Chandler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Vince Raleigh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Kylie Jayne Palmer, OAM[1] (born 25 February 1990), is an Australian distance freestyle swimmer.
She attended Grace Lutheran College, Rothwell. She was Sports Captain for her house, Pegasus and represented the school in many aquatic events.
She trained at Redcliffe Leagues Swimming Club under Ken_Wood_(coach),[2] and later Albany Creek Swim Club under John Rodgers.[3]
At the 2007 Australian Short Course Championships she set an Australian and Commonwealth record in the 800 metres freestyle of 8:14.11.
She represented Australia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, where she finished 5th in the 400-metre freestyle. At the 2007 Melbourne World Championships she came 8th in the 800-metre freestyle.
At the 2008 Short Course World Championships in Manchester, Palmer won 4 medals. Two titles over 200-metre and 400-metre freestyle, one silver medal over 800-metre freestyle and a bronze medal with the 4×200-metre freestyle relay.
At the 2008 Australian Swimming Championships, she won the 800-metre freestyle in a personal best time of 8:24.30, thus qualifying for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Also, by finishing 4th in the 200-metre freestyle, she qualified to swim in the relay at the games.
At the Beijing Olympics, 14 August 2008, Palmer won gold for the 4×200-metre women's relay team, with other members Stephanie Rice, Bronte Barratt and Linda MacKenzie. The Australian team overcame world superpowers USA and China to beat the world record of 7:44:31 by 5.78 seconds. Palmer was the fastest swimmer of her team, giving Australia a 3.14 second advantage.
At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Palmer won the gold medal in the 200-metre freestyle with a time of 1:57:50.
In April 2015, Palmer was notified that she had failed a doping test at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, forcing Swimming Australia to remove her from the Australian swim team for the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan.[4]
See also
- List of Australian records in swimming
- 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 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Redcliffe Leagues Swimming Club. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
- ↑ Albany Creek Swim Club. Retrieved 10 march 2015.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- Kylie Palmer on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Kylie Palmer at Swimming Australia
Records | ||
---|---|---|
Preceded by | Women's 4×200 metres freestyle relay world record holder (long course) 14 August 2008 – 30 July 2009 Stephanie Rice Bronte Barratt Kylie Palmer Linda Mackenzie |
Succeeded by Yang Yu Zhu Qianwei Liu Jing Pang Jiaying |
- Use Australian English from September 2014
- All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English
- Use dmy dates from October 2010
- Pages using Infobox sportsperson with module2 parameter
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- Pages using infobox swimmer with national team parameter
- 1990 births
- Living people
- Australian female swimmers
- Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Sportswomen from Queensland
- Olympic swimmers of Australia
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Former world record holders in swimming
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- Female freestyle swimmers
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Olympic silver medalists for Australia
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Brisbane
- Doping cases in swimming