Lilly King

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Personal information
Surname: Lilly Kingdom
Nickname (s): King
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Swimming style (s) : Breaststroke
Society: FJ Reitz High School Panthers
Newburgh Sea Creatures
College team: Indiana University
Birthday: February 10, 1997
Place of birth: Evansville, Indiana
Size: 1.78 m
Weight: 70 kg
Medal table
Olympic Summer Games 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 7 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Short course world championships 4 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 1 × gold 2 × silver 0 × bronze
Medals

Lilly King (born February 10, 1997 in Evansville , Indiana ) is an American swimmer . At the 2016 Summer Olympics , she won the gold medal in the 100 m breaststroke and in the 4 × 100 m medley relay . She currently holds the world record for the 100 m and 50 m breaststroke on the long track.

Life

King was born to Mark and Ginny King. Mark graduated from Indiana State University with track and cross-country races, and Ginny swam for Eastern Kentucky University and Illinois State University . King's younger brother, Alex, was a walk-on swimmer at the University of Michigan . King attended FJ Reitz High School. Their swimming team shares the Lloyd Pool with five other teams. This resulted in the pool always being crowded with swimmers who were slower than King. That's why. To compensate for this, she took part in the training of the local championship team and joined the Newburgh Sea Creatures.

college

King went to Indiana University Bloomington and joined the Indiana Hoosiers swim team.

At the NCAA finals in 2016, she was NCAA champion in the 100 yard chest (56.85 s / 91.44 m) and 200 yard chest (2: 03.59 min / 183 m). They also set some national records. In the first year she was named a Big Ten swimmer and received four All America honors.

2016 Summer Olympics

At the US preparatory tournament for the Olympics in Omaha , King won the 100 m chest and 200 m chest and qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro .

In the 100 m breaststroke prelims , she took first place with a time of 1: 05.78 minutes. In the semifinals she swam again to first place with 1: 05.70 min. Second place went to the reigning world champion Julija Jefimowa from Russia. This was previously suspended for 16 months due to doping. King won the gold medal and set a new Olympic record with 1: 04.93 min.

Over 200 m breaststroke , she reached 15th place in the preliminary races with 2: 25.89 minutes and qualified for the semi-finals. There she took 7th place with 2: 24.59 minutes and was eliminated.

Swimming world championships

King at the 2017 World Swimming Championships in Budapest

At the 2017 US Championships, which were also considered a qualifying competition for the World Swimming Championships in Budapest , King dominated the breaststroke competition. She won the competition in the 50 m chest with 29.66 seconds, the 100 m chest with 1: 04.95 min and the 200 m chest with 2: 21.83 min.

In the first competition in the 100 m chest she won with 1: 04.13 minutes, which was a new world record . King's teammate Katie Meili came second and Julija Jefimowa third. She also won gold with the 4x100 m tier relay and the 4x100 m mixed tier relay.

At the 2019 World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, she was able to defend the titles in the 50 m chest, 100 m chest and 4x100 m medley. She won silver in the mixed-tier relay.

Honors

On September 11, 2018, the city of Evansville decided to name the competition pool, which replaces the Lloyd pool, in the Deaconess Aquatic Center after Kings. This was also personally committed to the project.

Personal best

discipline time place date annotation
50 m chest (long track) 29.40 s Budapest July 30, 2017 WR
100 m chest (long track) 1: 04.13 min Budapest July 25, 2017 WR
200 m chest (long track) 2: 21.83 min Indianapolis June 28, 2017
100 yd chest (short course) 55.73 s Austin, TX March 22, 2019 WR
200 yd chest (short course) 2: 02.60 min Columbus, Ohio 17th March 2018 WR

World records

Art distance Swimming type time event place Date Age Ref
WR 100 m (long track) chest 1: 04.13 min Swimming World Championships 2017 Budapest , Hungary 2017. July 25 20th
WR 50 m (long track) chest 29.40 s Swimming World Championships 2017 Budapest , Hungary 2017. July 30 20th

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lilly King Bio . In: iuhoosiers.com . Indiana Hoosiers. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Pat Forde: Lilly King's improbable journey to the finger-wagging frontline of swimming's Cold War , Yahoo Sports. August 8, 2016. Accessed August 9, 2016. 
  3. ↑ Lauren Neidigh: Lilly King smashes 57 second barrier to set 100 breast American record . Swimswam. March 18, 2016. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  4. ↑ Martin Rogers: US swimmer Lilly King calls out Russian drug cheat with strong words, finger wag . In: USA Today . August 8, 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2016.
  5. ↑ Karen Crouse: American Lilly King Makes Statement With Olympic Record in 100-meter chest . In: The New York Times , August 8, 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2016. 
  6. ↑ David Woods: Lilly King sets Olympic record in winning 100 breast, Russian nemesis . In: IndyStar.com . Indianapolis Star. August 8, 2016.
  7. ↑ Lilly King, Molly Hannis do not advance to 200m breast final , nbcolympics.com. 11th August 2016. 
  8. ↑ Charlotte Wilder: Lilly King's feisty rivalry with Yulia Efimova is the Olympics at its very best . In: USA Today , August 9, 2016. 
  9. ↑ US vs. Russia: Lilly King-Yulia Efimova adds to history of heated rivalries , Sporting News. Retrieved August 9, 2016. 
  10. ↑ Lilly King Surges to 1: 04.1 min to Take Down 100 Breast World Record . In: SwimSwam , July 25, 2017. Retrieved July 26, 2017. 
  11. ↑ King Gets The Last Laugh Over Efimova ... For Now . In: SwimSwam , July 25, 2017. Retrieved July 26, 2017. 
  12. ↑ City of Evansville Approves New Aquatic Center with pool named for Lilly King. September 11, 2018. Retrieved October 27, 2019 (American English).
  13. ↑ 17th FINA World Championships Women's 100m Breast Final Results . omegatiming.com. July 25, 2017. Retrieved July 25, 2017.
  14. ↑ 17th FINA World Championships Women's 50m Breast Final Results . omegatiming.com. July 30, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME King, Lilly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Evansville , Indiana