Jessica Schipper
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Surname: | Jessicah Lee Schipper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname (s): | Jess | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nation: | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Swimming style (s) : | butterfly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Birthday: | November 19, 1986 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth: | Brisbane | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Size: | 1.72 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jessicah Lee Schipper OAM (born November 19, 1986 in Brisbane ) is an Australian swimmer .
Career
The daughter of a German-born family made her international breakthrough on individual routes at the 2005 World Swimming Championships in Montréal . Your specialty are the butterfly routes. Over 100 m butterfly she became world champion in Montréal and over 200 m butterfly she had to admit defeat to Otylia Jędrzejczak from Poland by 4 hundredths of a second and won the silver medal. With the Australian layer relay, Schipper won another gold medal.
She won the world championship title in the 200 m butterfly at the World Swimming Championships in Melbourne in 2007 . Over 100 m in the same discipline she only had to admit defeat to her teammate Lisbeth Lenton and won silver. Together with Lenton, Emily Seebohm and Leisel Jones , she won gold in the 4 × 100 m tier relay. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 she won the bronze medal over 100 m butterfly behind her compatriot Lisbeth Trickett and the American Christine Magnuson . She also won bronze in the 200 m butterfly. She achieved the greatest success of the Games in Beijing on the last day of the swimming competition when she won the gold medal in the 4 × 100 m individual relay relay.
The 2009 World Swimming Championships in Rome began for her with a silver medal over 100 meters butterfly behind the 15-year-old Sarah Sjöström . Over the 200 meter butterfly she managed to defend her world title in a world record time.
Records
World records (1) | |||
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4 × 100 m layers (with Seebohm , Jones and Trickett ) | 03: 52.69 min | August 17, 2008 | Beijing |
(As of August 17, 2008) |
Web links
- Jessicah Schipper in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schipper, Jessica |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schipper, Jessicah Lee (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian swimmer |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1986 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Brisbane , Australia |