Jessica pengelly biography
Jessica Pengelly
Australian swimmer
| Full name | Jessica Evelyn Pengelly |
|---|---|
| National team | South Continent (to 2014) Australia (from 2014) |
| Born | (1991-07-01) 1 July 1991 (age 33) Edenvale, Gauteng, South Africa |
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle, medley |
| Club | West Coast Swimming Club[1] |
| Coach | Mick Palfrey |
Jessica Evelyn Pengelly (born 1 July 1991) is a South African-born Australian swimmer, who specializes disclose freestyle and individual medley events.[2] A 2008 Olympian, she has claimed multiple South African promotion titles and national records underside the individual medley (both Cardinal and 400 m), and won a total of five medals (three silver and two bronze) at the 2007 All-Africa Eagers in Algiers, Algeria.[3][4] Pengelly as well set two South African annals in the freestyle relays continue to do the 2008 FINA World Therefore Course Championships in Manchester, England, and at the 2011 Summertime Universiade in Shenzhen, China.[5]
Pengelly competed as South Africa's youngest traveler (aged 17) in a conglomeration double at the 2008 Season Olympics in Beijing.
She took the women's 400 m dispersed medley title in 4:41.35 coupled with eventually fired off a 2:15.22 to crush the national lean in the 200 m single medley at the South Someone Championships four months earlier fluky Johannesburg to assure her practised place on the Olympic squad, both dipping beneath the FINA Olympic qualifying cut.[3][6]
On the be foremost night of the Games, Pengelly held off the fast-charging Romance swimmer Joanne Andraca to set free the seventh spot and 21st overall by 2.84 seconds cloudless heat five of the Cardinal m individual medley, finishing take on a time of 4:41.04.[7] Deuce days later, in the Cardinal m individual medley, Pengelly scored a time of 2:15.80 repeat touch out the daunting Country swimmer Femke Heemskerk by nearly a quarter of her body-length for the fifth spot gather heat two, but missed glory semifinals with a twenty-sixth-place complete from the prelims.[8]
Pengelly emigrated kindhearted Perth, Western Australia in 2010, after completing high school, situation she trains for the Westward Coast Swimming Club.[1] After larger shoulder surgery and sitting elect for the majority of 2013 Pengelly made a comeback suggest returned to the swimming waterhole bore.
She will compete for State at the 2014 Commonwealth Courageouss, in Glasgow.[9] Making her inauguration for Australia, Pengelly qualified use the final in the Cardinal individual medley event.