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Stephanie rice . Olympic swimmer of freestyle, medley and butterfly. About.
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Stephanie rice Olympic swimmer of freestyle, medley and butterfly
About Stephanie Louise Rice (born 17 June 1988) is an Australian swimmer. She 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 Stephanie rice was the gold medallist 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. She continued her strong performance, setting a new personal best time in the 400m individual medley at an Italian meet in June 2007. She swum a time of 4.40.79. At the 2007 Japanese Open Championships, Stephanie smashed her personal best time in the 400m individual medley and finally cracked the 4:40 barrier, placing second. Rice set a new Australian and Commonwealth record of 4:37.18, a personal best by 3.61 sec. At the 2008 Australian Olympic trials, she broke the world record in the 400 m individual medley. Rice swam at 4 minutes 31.46 seconds. On 29 June 2008, at the U.S. Olympic Trials, Katie Hoff regained the world record from Stephanie with a time of 4:31.12. She claimed her second world record of the meet, when she broke the 200 m individual medley world record, clocking 2 minutes 8.92 seconds. At the Beijing Olympic Games, Rice received her first-ever Olympic medal, Australia's first gold medal of the games, winning the 400m individual medley in a time of 4 minutes 29.45 seconds. In the process she reclaimed the world record from Katie Hoff becoming the first woman to break the 4:30 in the event!
