Yolane Kukla
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Full name | Yolane Nicole Kukla | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Yo" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Brisbane, Queensland | 29 September 1995|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 61 kg (134 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Butterfly, freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | St Peters Western SC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yolane Nicole Kukla OAM (born 29 September 1995) is an Australian butterfly and freestyle swimmer.
Career
[edit]At the 2010 Telstra Australian Swimming Championships in Sydney at just 14, Kukla earned selection for the Commonwealth Games team for Delhi, where she won the gold medal in the 50-metre freestyle, and Australian team for the Pan Pacific Championships. She made her senior Australian team debut at the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships where she collected two relay silver medals and finished 4th in the 50- and 100-metre freestyle and the 100-metre butterfly, along with winning the B final in the 50-metre butterfly equaling the existing championship record.[1] At the 2010 Commonwealth Games she was dropped from the relays, and finished 4th in the 50- and 100-metre butterfly, she won the gold medal in the 50-metre freestyle in a time of 24.86 seconds.
Kukla swam in the heats of the 4×100-metre freestyle relay at the 2012 London Olympics helping qualify the team for the final where the team won the gold medal. The team included Libby Trickett, Emily Seebohm, Alicia Coutts, Cate Campbell, Melanie Schlanger and Brittany Elmslie.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Australian Swimming athlete's profile – Yolane Kukla". Archived from the original on 18 February 2011.
External links
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- 1995 births
- Living people
- Australian people of Polish descent
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- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
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- Australian female butterfly swimmers
- Australian female freestyle swimmers
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
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- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers from Brisbane
- Olympic gold medalists in swimming
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- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
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