Jessica Schipper

Jessica Schipper
Personal information
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
Medal table

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)
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)