Kylie Palmer

Kylie Palmer

XIX Commonwealth Games-2010 Delhi Winners of (Women `s) 400m Swimming Freestyle, Kylie Palmer of Australia (Silver)
Personal information
Full name	Kylie Jayne Palmer
National team	Australia
Born	(1990-02-25) 25 February 1990 (age 34) Brisbane, Queensland
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Club	Chandler
Coach	Vince Raleigh
Medal record Women's swimming Representing  Australia Olympic Games 2008 Beijing 4x200m Freestyle 2012 London 4×200 m freestyle World Championships (LC) 2011 Shanghai 200 m freestyle 2011 Shanghai 4×200 m freestyle 2013 Barcelona 4×200 m freestyle World Championships (SC) 2008 Manchester 200 m freestyle 2008 Manchester 400 m freestyle 2008 Manchester 800 m freestyle 2010 Dubai 4×200 m freestyle 2010 Dubai 400 m freestyle 2008 Manchester 4×200 m freestyle 2010 Dubai 200 m freestyle 2014 Doha 4×200 m freestyle Pan Pacific Championships 2010 Irvine 4×200 m freestyle Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi 200 m freestyle 2010 Delhi 4×200 m freestyle 2010 Delhi 400 m freestyle

Kylie Jayne Palmer, OAM^[1] (born 25 February 1990), is an Australian distance freestyle swimmer.

She attended Grace Lutheran College, Rothwell. She was Sports Captain for her house, Pegasus and represented the school in many aquatic events.

She trained at Redcliffe Leagues Swimming Club under Ken Wood,^[2] and later Albany Creek Swim Club under John Rodgers.^[3]

At the 2007 Australian Short Course Championships she set an Australian and Commonwealth record in the 800 metres freestyle of 8:14.11.

She represented Australia at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, where she finished 5th in the 400-metre freestyle. At the 2007 Melbourne World Championships she came 8th in the 800-metre freestyle.

At the 2008 Short Course World Championships in Manchester, Palmer won 4 medals. Two titles over 200-metre and 400-metre freestyle, one silver medal over 800-metre freestyle and a bronze medal with the 4×200-metre freestyle relay.

At the 2008 Australian Swimming Championships, she won the 800-metre freestyle in a personal best time of 8:24.30, thus qualifying for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Also, by finishing 4th in the 200-metre freestyle, she qualified to swim in the relay at the games.

At the Beijing Olympics, 14 August 2008, Palmer won gold for the 4×200-metre women's relay team, with other members Stephanie Rice, Bronte Barratt and Linda MacKenzie. The Australian team overcame world superpowers USA and China to beat the world record of 7:44:31 by 5.78 seconds. Palmer was the fastest swimmer of her team, giving Australia a 3.14 second advantage.

At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Palmer won the gold medal in the 200-metre freestyle with a time of 1:57:50.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she was part of the Australian 4 × 200 m freestyle team that won silver.^[4]

In April 2015, Palmer was notified that she had failed a doping test at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, forcing Swimming Australia to remove her from the Australian swim team for the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan.^[5]

See also

• List of Australian records in swimming
• List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
• List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)
• List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (women)
• World record progression 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay

References

1. "Palmer, Kylie Jane". It's An Honour. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 26 January 2009.
2. Redcliffe Leagues Swimming Club Archived 3 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
3. Albany Creek Swim Club Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
4. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kylie Palmer". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
5. Lord, Craig (18 June 2015). "Kylie Palmer Faces The Baffling Case Of A 2013 'Diuretic Positive' She Just Heard About". Swimvortex. Retrieved 11 December 2015.

External links

• Kylie Palmer at Olympics.com
• Kylie Palmer at the Australian Olympic Committee
• Kylie Palmer at World Aquatics
• Kylie Palmer at Swimming Australia at the Wayback Machine (archived 9 September 2015)
• Kylie Palmer on Twitter

Records
Preceded by Natalie Coughlin Dana Vollmer Lacey Nymeyer Katie Hoff	Women's 4×200 metres freestyle relay world record holder (long course) 14 August 2008 – 30 July 2009 Stephanie Rice Bronte Barratt Kylie Palmer Linda Mackenzie	Succeeded by Yang Yu Zhu Qianwei Liu Jing Pang Jiaying