Olivia Smoliga

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2017 Fina World Championships 100backstroke Final

Personal information
Surname: Olivia Smoliga
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Swimming style (s) : Back , freestyle
College team: Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia
Birthday: October 12, 1994
Place of birth: Glenview , Cook County , Illinois
Size: 1.88 m
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Medals

Olivia Smoliga (born October 12, 1994 in Glenview , Cook County , Illinois ) is an American swimmer of Polish descent. She holds the American record over 50 m back on the short course.

Life

Her parents emigrated from Poland to the United States in 1991 . After graduating from Glenbrook South High School in 2013, Smoliga received an athletic scholarship from the University of Georgia , who has been swimming on the Georgia Bulldogs swimming and diving team since the 2013-14 winter semester.

Smoliga could not qualify for the US swim team in the eliminations for the 2012 Summer Olympics , because they only took 4th place over 100 m back with a time of 1: 00.46 minutes and only fourth place over 50 m in 25.66 seconds reached the 23rd place. In the semi-finals over 100 m back swam with 59.82 seconds personal best and undercut the time of one minute for the first time.

In November 2012, she set new US records in high school sports at the Illinois State High School Championships with 51.43 seconds over 100 yards back and 21.99 seconds over 50 yards freestyle.

In their first major international competition, the 2012 World Short Course Championships in Istanbul , Smoliga won four medals: two golds, one silver and one bronze each. In the final over 100 m back she achieved a time of 56.64 seconds and won the gold medal. In the last 50 m she achieved the fastest time of all finalists with 29.74 seconds. In addition, Smoliga won the gold medal with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay of the USA, for which she did not start in the final, as well as the silver medal over 50 m back, where she set a new American record, and bronze with the 4 × 100 m relay relay UNITED STATES.

Smoliga won the 2013-14 season NCAA Women's Division I Swimming and Diving Championships with the Georgia Bulldogs, winning a gold medal in the 50m freestyle and a bronze medal in the 400m medley relay. Before the US Championships in 2014, she contracted glandular fever , which resulted in poor results in that competition and the NCAA swimming competition in 2015. Nevertheless, with the fifth fastest time over 100 m back, she kept her place in the US swim team and qualified for the 2015 Pan-American Games . Over 100 m back she won the silver medal with her third-best time ever swum of 1: 00.06 minutes.

Smoliga won the elimination competition over 100m back for the 2016 Summer Olympics in 59.02 seconds, beating two former Olympic gold medalists, Missy Franklin and Natalie Coughlin . In the Olympic competition over 100 m back she reached sixth place in the final.

At the 2018 Short Course World Championships in Hangzhou , she won the 50 and 100 meter back title and four more gold medals in the relay. A year later, she was in Gwangju also on the long course world champion over 50 meters and took the bronze medal in the 100 meters.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Glenview Patch . Patch Network. November 19, 2012. Accessed August 12, 2016. (In English)
  2. ↑ Tribune / WGN-Ch. 9 2012-13 Athlete of the Year | Glenbrook South's Olivia Smoliga , Chicago Tribune , June 15, 2013, accessed August 12, 2016.
  3. ↑ 2012 US Olympic Team Trials (swimming) - Women's 100 meter backstroke (final). . Omega timing. June 27, 2012. Retrieved August 12, 2016. (In English)
  4. ↑ 2012 US Olympic Team Trials (swimming) - Women's 50 meter freestyle (heats) . Omega timing. July 1, 2012. Accessed August 12, 2016. (In English)
  5. ↑ 2012 US Olympic Team Trials (swimming) - Women's 100 meter backstroke (semifinals) . Omega timing. June 26, 2012. Accessed August 12, 2016. (In English)
  6. ↑ US Wins More Swimming Gold Medals . In: New York Times . December 13, 2012. Accessed August 12, 2016. (In English)
  7. ↑ Olivia Smoliga , Georgia Dogs, accessed August 12, 2016 (English)
  8. ↑ With confidence waning, Olivia Smoliga looks to Pan Am Games for boost . In: Chicago Tribune . July 16, 2015. Accessed August 12, 2016. (In English)
  9. ↑ Glenview swimmer Smoliga gets Pan Am Games silver . In: Chicago Tribune . July 17, 2015. Accessed August 12, 2016. (In English)
  10. ↑ Dan D'Addona: Glenbrook South degree Olivia Smoliga wins 100 back at Olympic trials . In: Chicago Tribune . June 28, 2016. Accessed August 12, 2016. (In English)
  11. ↑ Joe Vince: Rio Olympics: Swimmer Olivia Smoliga Places 6th in 100-Meter Backstroke . In: Glenview Patch . August 9, 2016. Accessed August 12, 2016. (In English)
personal data
SURNAME Smoliga, Olivia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Glenview , Cook County , Illinois