Emily Jane Seebohm, OAM (born 5 June 1992) is an Australian swimmer and television personality. She has appeared at four Olympic Games between 2008 and 2021; and won three Olympic gold medals, five world championship gold medals and seven Commonwealth Games gold medals. She specialises in the backstroke, but has also won medals in the freestyle and individual medley.
Australian swimmer
Emily Seebohm OAM
Seebohm at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Fullname
Emily Jane Seebohm
Nationalteam
Australia
Born
(1992-06-05) 5 June 1992 (age30) Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Height
1.83m (6ft 0in)
Weight
64kg (141lb)
Sport
Sport
Swimming
Strokes
Backstroke, freestyle, butterfly, medley
Club
Energy Standard Griffith University
Coach
Michael Bohl
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing Australia
Event
1st
2nd
3rd
Olympic Games
3
3
1
World Championships (LC)
5
5
4
World Championships (SC)
0
5
5
Pan Pacific Championships
6
6
0
Commonwealth Games
7
4
4
Total
21
23
14
Olympic Games
2008 Beijing
4×100 m medley
2012 London
4×100 m freestyle
2020 Tokyo
4×100 m medley
2012 London
100 m backstroke
2012 London
4×100 m medley
2016 Rio de Janeiro
4×100 m medley
2020 Tokyo
200 m backstroke
World Championships (LC)
2007 Melbourne
4×100 m medley
2015 Kazan
100 m backstroke
2015 Kazan
200 m backstroke
2015 Kazan
4×100 m freestyle
2017 Budapest
200 m backstroke
2009 Rome
4×100 m medley
2013 Barcelona
100 m backstroke
2013 Barcelona
4×100 m freestyle
2013 Barcelona
4×100 m medley
2017 Budapest
4×100 m freestyle
2009 Rome
100 m backstroke
2015 Kazan
4×100 m medley
2017 Budapest
100 m backstroke
2017 Budapest
4×100 m medley
World Championships (SC)
2014 Doha
50 m backstroke
2014 Doha
100 m backstroke
2014 Doha
200 m backstroke
2014 Doha
4×100m medley
2016 Windsor
100 m medley
2014 Doha
100 m medley
2016 Windsor
200 m backstroke
2016 Windsor
4×100 m medley
2018 Hangzhou
200 m backstroke
2018 Hangzhou
4×50 m freestyle
Pan Pacific Championships
2010 Irvine
100 m backstroke
2010 Irvine
200 m medley
2014 Gold Coast
100 m backstroke
2014 Gold Coast
4×100 m medley
2018 Tokyo
4×100 m freestyle
2018 Tokyo
4×100 m medley
2010 Irvine
100 m freestyle
2010 Irvine
50 m butterfly
2010 Irvine
4×100 m freestyle
2010 Irvine
4×100 m medley
2014 Gold Coast
200 m backstroke
2018 Tokyo
100 m backstroke
Commonwealth Games
2010 Delhi
100 m backstroke
2010 Delhi
4×100 m freestyle
2010 Delhi
4×100 m medley
2014 Glasgow
100 m backstroke
2014 Glasgow
4×100 m medley
2018 Gold Coast
50 m backstroke
2018 Gold Coast
4×100 m medley
2010 Delhi
100 m freestyle
2010 Delhi
200 m medley
2014 Glasgow
200 m backstroke
2018 Gold Coast
100 m backstroke
2010 Delhi
50 m backstroke
2010 Delhi
200 m backstroke
2010 Delhi
50 m butterfly
2018 Gold Coast
200 m backstroke
Career
At the age of 14, Seebohm won the 100 m backstroke at the 2007 Australian Championships, the selection meet for the 2007 World Aquatics Championships. At the World Championships in Melbourne, Seebohm won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m medley relay.[1] She also placed fourth in the final of the 100 m backstroke and 14th in the 50 m backstroke.[2][3]
Seebohm also won gold in both the 100 m backstroke and 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 2007 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.
On 6 March 2008 at the Brisbane Catholic Schoolgirls Championships, Seebohm broke the 50 m backstroke Commonwealth and Australian records with a time 28.10 seconds, missing Li Yang's then world record of 28.09 by one hundredth of a second.[4]
On 22 March 2008, Seebohm broke the world record in the 50 m backstroke in the semi-finals of the 2008 Australian Championships, with a time of 27.95s, taking five hundredths of a second off Hayley McGregory's world record of 28.00[4] set only 15 days earlier on 7 March 2008.[5] A day later, this record was beaten again, this time by Australian Sophie Edington in a time of 27.67 seconds in the final of the same event.[6] Seebohm decided not to swim in the final of this event as it is not an Olympic event and instead decided to focus on the semi-final of the 100 m backstroke. Her decision paid off when she became the first Australian woman to break the one-minute barrier in the event, her 59.78 making her the fifth-fastest of all-time.[6] She then lowered the record to 59.58s in the final, winning the Australian championship and gaining selection for the Olympic Games in Beijing.[7]
At the 2008 Summer Olympics, Seebohm placed ninth overall in the 100 m backstroke, barely missing a spot in the final. Seebohm then swam in both the preliminaries and final of the 4 × 100 m medley relay, in which Australia won the gold medal.
At the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome, Seebohm won the bronze medal in the 100 m backstroke with a time of 58.88.[8][9] She also won silver in the 4 × 100 m medley relay,[10] and placed 7th in the 50 m backstroke and 15th in the 200 m IM.[11][12]
At the 2009 Australian Short Course Championships, Seebohm broke the world record in the 100 m IM in 58.54.[13]
At the 2010 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, on the first night she defeated Olympic champion Natalie Coughlin in the 100m backstroke, taking gold in championship record time, as well as taking silver in the 50m butterfly. On the second night, she took silver in the 100m freestyle in her first attempt at the event at international level. On night 3 she took another silver in the 4×100m freestyle relay. Final night saw her take the gold in the 200m individual medley, topping world champion and record holder Ariana Kukors. Later on in the night she broke the 100m backstroke championship record in the lead off leg of the 4×100m medley relay, Australia finished with silver. Later on in the year she collected 8 medals at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
Seebohm was tracked by the BBC as part of their series World Olympic Dreams, which followed her as she prepared for London 2012.
At the 2012 London Olympics, Seebohm set a new Olympic record in a 100m backstroke qualifier and was heavily backed to win the gold in the final of the event but fell just short and gained a silver medal.
At the 2013 Australian Swimming Championships she won gold in the 50m and 100m backstroke and silver in 200m individual medley and bronze in the 200m backstroke events, qualifying for the 2013 World Aquatics Championships. At the World Championships, she teamed up with Bronte Campbell, Emma McKeon and Brittany Elmslie in the heats of the 4 × 100 m freestyle, finishing second in their heat and overall.[14] In the final sisters Cate and Bronte Campbell, Emma McKeon and Alicia Coutts won the silver medal, finishing 0.12 seconds behind the United States.[15]
At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Seebohm represented Australia in both the 100 m and 200 m backstroke and won silver in the 4 × 100 m medley relay.[16][17]
In June 2021, Seebohm qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics after finishing second in the 100m backstroke event at the Australian Olympic trials in a time of 58.59.[18] The Tokyo Olympics were Seebohm's fourth consecutive Olympic Games, making her only one of three Australian swimmers to compete at four Olympic Games.[citation needed] At those Olympics she won a gold medal in the 4 x 100 metre medley relay, and a bronze medal in 200 metre backstroke.[19]
International Swimming League
In the Autumn of 2019 she was member of the inaugural International Swimming League swimming for the Energy Standard International Swim Club, who won the team title in Las Vegas, Nevada, in December.[20]
Legend: OC – Oceanian record;NR – Australian record; Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial
Legend: WR – World record;OC – Oceanian record;NR – Australian record; Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial
When Seebohm was three she moved with her family from Adelaide to Brisbane, Queensland so her mother could coach swimming.[27] Seebohm attended St Joseph's Catholic Primary School until Grade 7, and then moved on to St John Fisher College, a Catholic school for girls. Both schools are in Bracken Ridge. She attended St John Fisher College up until the end of 2008, where she completed grade 10, and previously attended St Margaret's Anglican Girls School. Her father John Seebohm was also an accomplished footballer in the SANFL, who played over 300 games for the Glenelg Tigers. Emily has a swimming complex, 'The Emily Seebohm Aquatic Centre', named after her in Bracken Ridge.
On 26 January 2009, Seebohm was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.[28]
In 2015, Seebohm began a relationship with fellow swimmer, Mitch Larkin. The couple owned a house together in Hendra, Brisbane. In July 2018, Seebohm announced their separation.[29]
Seebohm has endometriosis and is an ambassador for the non-profit organisation Endometriosis Australia [30]
In January 2022 Seebohm appeared as a contestant in the 8th season of the Australian version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. Later the same year, she competed on The Challenge: Australia.[31]
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 backstroke
World record progression 100 metres individual medley
World record progression 4 × 100 metres medley relay
"SEEBOHM, Emily Jane". It's An Honour. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Archived from the original on 25 August 2009. Retrieved 26 January 2009.
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