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Felicity Galvez

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Felicity Galvez
Personal information
Full nameFelicity Madeline Galvez
National team Australia
Born (1985-03-04) 4 March 1985 (age 41)
Melbourne, Victoria
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle, butterfly
ClubSOPAC
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2008 Beijing4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place2008 Beijing4×200 m freestyle
World Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place2005 Montreal4×100m medley
Gold medal – first place2007 Melbourne4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place2009 Rome4×100 m freestyle
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place2004 Indianapolis4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place2008 Manchester50 m butterfly
Gold medal – first place2008 Manchester100 m butterfly
Gold medal – first place2010 Dubai100 m butterfly
Silver medal – second place2008 Manchester200 m butterfly
Silver medal – second place2008 Manchester4×100 m medley
Silver medal – second place2010 Dubai50 m butterfly
Bronze medal – third place2010 Dubai4×100 m medley
Pan Pacific Championships
Silver medal – second place2010 Irvine4×100 m freestyle
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place2010 Delhi4×100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place2006 Melbourne200 m butterfly

Felicity Madeline Galvez, OAM[1] (born 4 March 1985) is an Australian swimmer and two-time Olympic gold medalist. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[2] She was educated at Runnymede College in Madrid.

Career

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She broke both the short course 50-metre and 100-metre butterfly world records in 2008, in 25.32 and 55.89, respectively. The 100-metre record lasted for less than a month, as teammate Libby Trickett lowered it on 26 April 2008. The 50-metre record was broken by Therese Alshammar during the Stockholm stop of the 2008 FINA World Cup Series, but Marieke Guehrer returned it to Australian hands just days later. Galvez broke the 100m butterfly short course world record again at the 2009 FINA World Cup Series in Stockholm with a 55.46. That is 0.22 seconds faster than the previous mark of 55.68 set by Australian teammate, Jessicah Schipper on 12 August 2009.

Career best times

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See also

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References

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  1. ↑ "Galvez, Felicity Madeline". It's An Honour. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 26 January 2009.
  2. ↑ AIS at the Olympics Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
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