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| Full name | Felicity Madeline Galvez | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1985-03-04) 4 March 1985 (age 39) Melbourne, Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, butterfly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | SOPAC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Felicity Madeline Galvez, OAM (born 4 March 1985) is an Australian swimmer and two-time Olympic gold medalist. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. She was educated at Runnymede College in Madrid.
Career
She broke both the short course 50-metre and 100-metre butterfly world records in 2008, in 25.32 and 55.89, respectively. The 100-metre record lasted for less than a month, as teammate Libby Trickett lowered it on 26 April 2008. The 50-metre record was broken by Therese Alshammar during the Stockholm stop of the 2008 FINA World Cup Series, but Marieke Guehrer returned it to Australian hands just days later. Galvez broke the 100m butterfly short course world record again at the 2009 FINA World Cup Series in Stockholm with a 55.46. That is 0.22 seconds faster than the previous mark of 55.68 set by Australian teammate, Jessicah Schipper on 12 August 2009.
Career best times
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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)
- World record progression 50 metres butterfly
- World record progression 100 metres butterfly
References
- "Galvez, Felicity Madeline". It's An Honour. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 26 January 2009.
- AIS at the Olympics Archived 6 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Felicity Galvez at World Aquatics
- Felicity Galvez at Olympedia (archive)
- Felicity Galvez at Olympics.com
- Felicity Galvez at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
- Felicity Galvez at Commonwealth Games Australia
- Felicity Galvez at the Australian Olympic Committee at the Wayback Machine (archived 13 June 2019)
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| Preceded byLibby Lenton | Women's 100-metre butterfly world record-holder (short course) 13 April 2008 – 26 April 2008 |
Succeeded byLibby Trickett |
| Preceded byJessicah Schipper | Women's 100-metre butterfly world record-holder (short course) 11 November 2009 – 12 December 2009 |
Succeeded byDiane Bui Duyet |
| Preceded byAnna-Karin Kammerling | Women's 50-metre butterfly world record-holder (short course) 11 April 2008 – 12 November 2008 |
Succeeded byTherese Alshammar |
| World short-course champions in women's 50 m butterfly | |
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- 1985 births
- Living people
- Australian female butterfly swimmers
- World record setters in swimming
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers for Australia
- Olympic gold medalists for Australia
- Sportswomen from Victoria (state)
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Swimmers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Australian female freestyle swimmers
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Australian Institute of Sport swimmers
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- People educated at MLC School
- Swimmers from Melbourne
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Olympic gold medalists in swimming
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- 21st-century Australian sportswomen