Kylie Palmer
Kylie Palmer 
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| Surname: | Kylie Jayne Palmer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Swimming style (s) : | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birthday: | February 25, 1990 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Brisbane | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Size: | 1.72 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 64 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kylie Jayne Palmer (born February 25, 1990 in Brisbane ) is an Australian freestyle swimmer .
Career
Kylie Palmer has been participating in major international events for Australia since the 2006 Commonwealth Games . There she finished fifth on the 400 m freestyle course. During her first World Championships in Melbourne in 2007 , she reached the 800 m freestyle final and was eighth and last. Palmer made his final breakthrough at the 2008 Short Course World Championships in Manchester . She won the 200m and 400m freestyle and came second in the 800m. She won the fourth medal in third place with the 4 × 200m freestyle relay.
At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , the young Australian competed over two courses. With Stephanie Rice , Bronte Barratt and Linda Mackenzie in the 4 × 200m freestyle relay, she won the gold medal on August 14 with a world record time of 7: 44.31 minutes, ahead of the favored relays from China and the USA. She was in third position fastest swimmer in Australia and handed over with a lead of 3.14 seconds.
With 8: 14.11 minutes, Palmer set a Commonwealth record over 800 meters at the Australian Short Course Championships in 2008. At the Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi , she won the gold medal in the 200 m freestyle and with the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay as well as the silver medal in the 400 m freestyle.
In June 2015 she was suspended and removed from the Australian team for the World Championships because she had already tested positive for furosemide during a doping control at the 2013 World Championships . She denied the allegation. After the World Cup, Palmer was warned by FINA .
Records
- World records (1): 4 × 200 m freestyle (with Rice , Barratt , Mackenzie ) 7: 44.31 min, August 14, 2008 in Beijing
Web links
- Portrait on the website of the IOC ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- Kylie Palmer in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
- Kylie Palmer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kylie Palmer suspended for alleged doping offense, withdraws from Australian swimming team abc.net.au June 18, 2015
- ↑ FINA: Only warning for Palmer spox.com September 16, 2015
Olympic champions in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay1996: Jackson , Teuscher , Taormina , Thompson ( USA ) | 2000: Arsenault , Munz , Benko , Thompson ( USA ) | 2004: Coughlin , Piper , Vollmer , Sandeno ( USA ) | 2008: Rice , Barratt , Palmer , Mackenzie ( AUS ) | 2012: Franklin , Vollmer , Vreeland , Schmitt ( USA ) | 2016: Schmitt , Smith , DiRado , Ledecky ( USA )
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| SURNAME | Palmer, Kylie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Palmer, Kylie Jayne (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian freestyle swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1990 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brisbane , Australia |