Joanna Fargus
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| Born | 3 January 1982 Hong Kong, Hong Kong | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Joanna Lindsay "Jo" Fargus (born 3 January 1982) is a retired British-Australian swimmer who specialised in the 200 m backstroke. In this event she won a gold medal at the European Short Course Swimming Championships 2000 and a bronze medal at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships;[1] she finished ninth at the 2000 Summer Olympics.[2] She also competed in freestyle, winning a gold medal in the 4×200 m relay at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.[2]
Biography
Fargus was born in Hong Kong to a Scottish father and Australian mother and therefore holds a dual British-Australian citizenship. After spending 10 years in Hong Kong, she moved to Australia where she attended the Somerset College in Mudgeeraba, Queensland. She then moved to England, where she first studied at a boarding school and than at the University of Bath.[3] In 2002 she enrolled to the University of Southern California (USC) and until 2006 competed and worked as a coach in the United States. She was voted USC Woman of the Year 2005 and graduated with a bachelor's degree in communication. All those years she represented England and United Kingdom at international competitions,[2] but between January 2006 and March 2008 she competed for Australia, winning the 200 m backstroke event at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.[4] An Australian postal stamp featuring her has been issued on this occasion.[5]
Around October 2008 she retired from swimming and moved back to Hong Kong, where she first worked as account executive at PPR Greater China and then as media relations manager at HSBC.[4]
Her brother Andrew competed for Scotland in triathlon at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.[6][3]
References
- ^ Joanna FARGUS. les-sports.info
- ^ a b c Joanna Fargus. usctrojans.com
- ^ a b Commonwealth Games Briefs. thestar.com.my (2006-3-20).
- ^ a b Joanna Fargus. linkedin.com
- ^ AU074.06. wnsstamps.ch
- ^ Jo Fargus. sports-reference.com
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