Emily Overholt
Kazan 2015
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| Full name | Emily Overholt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Canada
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October 4, 1997 Vancouver, British Columbia |
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| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | West Vancouver Otters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Emily Overholt (born October 4, 1997) is a Canadian competitive swimmer. She has won bronze medals at the Olympic Games and FINA World Aquatics Championships, as well as a silver at the Commonwealth Games and three Pan American Games medals. Overholt also won three gold and a silver at the 2013 Canada Games as a representative for British Columbia.
Overholt begun swimming at the age of 9 with the West Vancouver Otters. Her main inspiration for being a competitive swimmer was watching Michael Phelps during the 2008 Summer Olympics, while she states her overall sports inspiration is skater\cyclist Clara Hughes.
Overholt attended the 2013 Canada Games representing British Columbia as a 15-year-old competitor. There she won gold in the individual 200 m and 400 m medleys while adding a gold and a silver in the 400 m and 200 m freestyle respectively. She next won a bronze medal in the 400 m individual medley at the 2013 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships. Overholt's first major competitive podium finish came in Glasgow, Scotland as part of the 4 x 200 m freestyle relay at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she competed as a sixteen-year-old and helped the relay team win a silver medal.
During the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Overholt won three medals, including a gold in the 400 meter freestyle. The victory occurred less than a day after she was disqualified of a gold medal in the 400m medley for an illegal turn. After the Pan Am Games, Overholt practiced her turns heavily to ensure no similar problems at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Russia. There, Overholt won a bronze at the 400m medley and beat the national record by more than three seconds.
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