Jenna Strauch

Jenna Strauch
OLY
Personal information
Full nameJenna Elise Strauch
NationalityAustralian
Born (1997-03-24) 24 March 1997 (age 27)
Bendigo, Australia
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBreaststroke
ClubRackley Miami
CoachRichard Scarce
Medal record
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris 4×100 m medley
World Championships (LC)
Silver medal – second place 2022 Budapest 200 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2022 Budapest 4×100 m medley
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place 2022 Melbourne 4×50 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2022 Melbourne 4×100 m medley
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2022 Birmingham 200 m breaststroke

Jenna Strauch OLY (born 24 March 1997) is an Australian swimmer. Jenna first represented Australia at the 2013 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships.[1] She competed in the women's 200 metre breaststroke at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships held in Gwangju, South Korea.[2] Jenna reached the semi-finals and she did not qualify to compete in the final.[3][4] Jenna then went on to represent Australia in the 2020 Summer Olympics where she made it to the semi-finals in the 200m Breaststroke qualifying 9th fastest in the world.

Biography

After competing at the 2013 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships Jenna then fell ill battling undiagnosed parasites for over a year which saw her take significant time out of the pool. After making a recovering in 2015 she made the move from her home town of Bendigo to the Gold Coast, Queensland. Jenna was the recipient of the Gina Rinehart Swimming Excellence Scholarship through Bond University where she studied Biomedical sciences in 2016. Training under Richard Scarce [5] Jenna went on the make her first national senior team at the 2018 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) She claimed her first national title in 2019 at The Australian National Long Course Championships . This was a breakthrough meet for Jenna which saw her sign deals with [1] TYR Australia. She competed the 2020 Summer Olympics swimming in career best form placing her top 10 in the world.

References

  1. ^ "Rookie Jenna Strauch Relishing Chance To Finally Represent Australia". SwimSwam. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  2. ^ "18th FINA World Championships 2019: Women's 200m Breaststroke start list" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 July 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Women's 200 metre breaststroke – Semi-finals" (PDF). 2019 World Aquatics Championships. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 February 2020. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  4. ^ Bourke, Adam (16 June 2021). "Jenna Strauch to swim for Australia at Tokyo Olympics". Bendigo Advertiser. Retrieved 20 August 2021.
  5. ^ "Jenna Strauch | Swimming Australia". www.swimming.org.au. Retrieved 20 August 2021.