Alicia Coutts
Alicia Jayne Coutts,
Early years
Coutts was born in
Career
2008 Olympics
Coutts competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics where she ended up fifth in the 200-metre individual medley.[1]
2010 Commonwealth Games and Pan Pacs
At the Pan Pacs, she took two relay silver medals and bronze in the 100 m butterfly.
At the
At the 2011 Australian Championships which doubled as the World Championship Trials, seeking to pick up her first national title. On night two, she doubled up, taking the 100-metre butterfly by a clear margin, as well as the 200-metre individual medley, beating Olympic champion Stephanie Rice by approximately an arm's length. She took 6th place in the 200-metre freestyle. On night six, she took gold in the 100-metre freestyle, winning by a clear margin over Yolane Kukla. In June, she took 3 gold at the Barcelona leg of the Mare Nostrum Series, downing the meet record of the 100-metre butterfly as well as the 200-metre individual medley in a personal best time.
2011 World championships and Olympic Trials
At the 2011 World Championships on night two, Coutts took silver medals in the 100-metre butterfly and 200-metre individual medley. She swam the butterfly leg of the 4×100-metre medley relay, capturing a bronze medal.[citation needed]
At the 2012 Olympic Trials, she won the 100-metre butterfly holding off Jessicah Schipper down the stretch and stopping Libby Trickett's attempt to defend her Olympic title in that event. She took silver in the 200-metre medley, booking another individual spot. She later placed in the top 6 in the 100-metre freestyle, gaining a spot on the 4×100-metre freestyle relay. On the final night she collected silver in the 4×100-metre medley relay.[citation needed]
2012 Olympics
On night one, she collected gold in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay with Cate Campbell, Brittany Elmslie and Melanie Schlanger setting a new Olympic record in the process. On night two, she collected a bronze in the 100-metre butterfly, she became the 8th fastest of all time. Night 4 she got a silver in the 200-metre individual medley becoming the 5th fastest of all time. On night 5, she anchored the 4×200-metre freestyle relay team to silver, recording a 200-metre split time of 1:56.12, 1.6 seconds quicker than her official personal best. On the final night, she collected a silver in the 4×100-metre medley relay, bringing her medal total to 5 in a single Olympic Games.
At the 2013 Australian Championships (which doubled as the qualifiers for 2013 World Aquatics Championships), Coutts won gold the 50 and 100-metre butterfly and the 200-metre individual medley, silver in the 50-metre backstroke and bronze in the 50-metre breastroke and 100-metre freestyle.
2013 World Championships
At the World Championships, she collected silver medals in the 100-metre butterfly, 200-metre medley, 4x100-metre freestyle relay, 4×200-metre freestyle relay, 4×100-metre medley relay.[4]
2016 Olympics
At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Coutts finished fifth in the final of the 200 m individual medley.[5] In October 2016, she announced her retirement.[6]
Career best times
Coutts holds one Olympic record in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay, the Commonwealth records in the short-course 100-metre butterfly, 100-metre and 200-metre individual medley, and two Commonwealth Games records and is the fastest Australian in textile in the 200-metre individual medley and 100-metre butterfly.
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Recognition
In 2012, she won the Australian Institute of Sport Athlete of the Year Award with sailor Tom Slingsby.[7]
See also
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women)
- List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)
- List of Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming (women)
- List of Australian records in swimming
- List of Commonwealth records in swimming
References
- ^ a b c d Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Alicia Coutts". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
- ^ a b Clark, Laine; Cratchley, Drew (15 October 2010) "Aussies Party as Games end", The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
- ^ Tom Boswell, "Alicia Coutts stands among the greatest Australian swimmers after medal haul in Glasgow", Quest Newspapers (28 July 2014). Retrieved 29 May 2015.
- ^ "Final results of Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships" (pdf). Omega Timing. 28 July 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
- ^ "2016 Australian Olympic Swimming Team selected". Australian Olympic Committee. 14 April 2016. Archived from the original on 11 October 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
- ^ Ortegon, Karl (31 October 2016). "5-Time Olympic Medalist Alicia Coutts Announces Retirement". Swimswam. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ Dutton, Chris (17 November 2012). "Slingsby shares top gong with Coutts". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 16 November 2012.
External links
- Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 19 February 2017)
- Alicia Coutts at Swimming Australia at the Wayback Machine (archived 18 June 2015)
- Alicia Coutts at World Aquatics
- Alicia Coutts at the Australian Olympic Committee
- Alicia Coutts at Olympics.com
- Alicia Coutts at Olympic.org (archived)
- Alicia Coutts at Olympedia
- Alicia Coutts at Commonwealth Games Australia
- Alicia Coutts at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Alicia Coutts at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Alicia Coutts at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games(archived)