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==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Rice attended [[Clayfield College]] in her high school years in Brisbane, Queensland.<ref>{{cite news | title= Rice returns with gold swag | publisher=''Northern News (Brisbane)'' | date=[[April 29]] [[2004]] | accessdate=2008-08-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title= Golden girl is hunting bigger fish | publisher=''[[The Australian|Weekend Australian]]'' | date=[[April 29]] [[2006]] | accessdate=2008-08-16}}</ref> The athlete was romantically linked with fellow Australian swimmer and 50m freestyle world record holder [[Eamon Sullivan]]; they ended their 2 year relationship in July 2008, just prior to the Beijing Olympics.<ref>{{cite news | last = English | first = Ben | date = [[July 30]], [[2008]] | title = Swim sweethearts split up `amicably' | work = [[The Mercury (Hobart)]] |accessdate=2008-08-13}}</ref> The couple lived in separate states of Australia, (Sullivan in WA and Rice in [[Queensland]]) and said the stress of living so far apart and of course the impending Olympics caused the split of Australia's "Glamour Couple" who once posed together in highly publicised underwear advertisements.
Rice attended [[Clayfield College]] in her high school years in Brisbane, Queensland.<ref>{{cite news | title= Rice returns with gold swag | publisher=''Northern News (Brisbane)'' | date=[[April 29]] [[2004]] | accessdate=2008-08-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title= Golden girl is hunting bigger fish | publisher=''[[The Australian|Weekend Australian]]'' | date=[[April 29]] [[2006]] | accessdate=2008-08-16}}</ref>


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 13:17, 19 August 2008

Stephanie Rice
Personal information
Full nameStephanie Rice
NicknameSteph[citation needed] or Ricey[1]
Nationality Australia
Height176 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight67 kg (148 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesMedley, Freestyle, Butterfly
ClubSt Peters Western Swimming Club
Medal record
Representing  Australia
Women's swimming
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing 200m individual medley
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing 400m individual medley
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing 4x200m freestyle relay
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Melbourne[2] 200m individual medley
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Melbourne 400m individual medley

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Gold medal – first place 2006 Melbourne[3] 200m individual medley
Gold medal – first place 2006 Melbourne 400m individual medley

Stephanie Rice (born 17 June 1988 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian swimmer. She currently holds the world record in the 200 m and 400 m individual medley as of August 13 2008, and won three gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Rice is trained by Michael Bohl from the St Peters Western Swimming Club in Brisbane.

Career

Rice was the gold medalist in the 200 metres Individual Medley at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia where she defeated Olympians Brooke Hanson and Lara Carroll to claim the gold medal in the event in a time of 2:12.90, a personal best by 1.19 sec. She also won the 400m individual medley.

At the 2007 Melbourne World Championships she won a bronze medal in the 200m individual medley in a time of 2 minutes 11.42 seconds, breaking the previous Australian record by a second. American Katie Hoff won the gold in 2:10.13, with Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe in second place. Rice once again placed third, earning her second bronze medal in the 400m individual medley final. In a new personal best time Rice finished in 4:41.19, taking .54 sec off her previous best.

Rice continued her strong performance, setting a new personal best time in the 400m individual medley at an Italian meet in June 2007. Rice went a 4:40.79, edging closer to the elusive 4:40 barrier in the event. At the 2007 Japanese Open Championships, Rice smashed her personal best time in the 400m individual medley and finally cracked the 4:40 barrier. In placing second to Zimbabwean champion Kirsty Coventry, Rice set a new Australian and Commonwealth record of 4:37.18—a personal best by 3.61 sec. [citation needed]

2008

At the 2008 Australian Olympic trials, Rice broke the world record in the 400 m individual medley. Rice stopped the clock at 4 minutes 31.46 seconds, 1.43 seconds off American Katie Hoff's mark of 4:32.89.[4] On June 29 2008, at the U.S. Olympic Trials, Hoff retook the world record from Rice with a time of 4:31.12. Rice claimed her second world record of the meet, when she broke the 200 m individual medley world record, clocking 2 minutes 8.92 seconds to slash almost a full second off the previous record held by China's Wu Yanyan.[5]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Rice won her first-ever Olympic medal, Australia's first gold medal of the games and its 400th summer Olympic medal[6], winning the 400m individual medley in a time of 4 minutes 29.45 seconds. In the process she reclaimed the world record from Hoff bettering the mark by 1.67 seconds, thus becoming the first woman to break the 4:30 in the event, (Kirsty Coventry also went under 4:30 in taking the silver). Her second gold medal of the games came on August 13 in the 200m individual medley with a new world record time of 2 minutes 8.34 seconds. Rice prevailed after being neck and neck with Coventry, who also went under the old world record[7]. On August 14 she won her third gold medal as part of the 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay team.

Personal life

Rice attended Clayfield College in her high school years in Brisbane, Queensland.[8][9]

See also

References

  1. ^ "In the water with Stephanie Rice". The Sunday Territorian. March 23 2008. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ "12th FINA World Championships". Retrieved 2007-06-09.
  3. ^ "Swimming Schedule and Results". Retrieved 2007-08-22.
  4. ^ "Rice, Seebohm break world records". The Age. 2008-03-22. Retrieved 2008-03-22. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. ^ "Rice claims 200m world record in Sydney". 2008-03-25. Retrieved 2008-03-25. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Text "publisherThe Sydney Morning Herald" ignored (help)
  6. ^ "Rice steams to gold and world record". Fairfax Digital - smh.com.au - Sydney Morning Herald. August 10 2008. Retrieved 2008-08-14. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ "Rice edges thrilling medley final". 2008-08-13. Retrieved 2008-08-13. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Text "publisherBBC Sport" ignored (help)
  8. ^ "Rice returns with gold swag". Northern News (Brisbane). April 29 2004. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  9. ^ "Golden girl is hunting bigger fish". Weekend Australian. April 29 2006. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
Records
Preceded by Women's 200 metre individual medley
world record holder (long course)
25 March 2008 – present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by Women's 400 metre individual medley
world record holder (long course)
22 March 2008 – 29 June 2008 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Women's 400 metre individual medley
world record holder (long course)
10 August 2008 – present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent


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