Jennifer Reilly
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| Full name | Jennifer Louise Reilly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Australia
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6 July 1983 Geraldton, Western Australia |
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| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Medley | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jennifer Louise Reilly (born 6 July 1983) is an Australian medley swimmer.
Reilly, born in Geraldton, Western Australia, and growing up in Perth, Western Australia, was a strong junior swimmer winning four gold and two silver medals at the 1998 Australian Age Championships and later that year at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, at the age of 15, won her first international medal with third in the 400-metre individual medley.
At the 1999 FINA Short Course World Championships in Hong Kong she finished fourth in final of the 400-metre individual medley. Later in August at the 1999 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Sydney she was finished fifth in the same event.
In 2000, after now competing in three international meets, she continued her great form at Australian Age Championships picking up three gold and two silver medals. At the Australian Championships and Olympic Selection Trails she won the 400 metre individual medley beating both Rachel Harris and Hayley Lewis home to qualify for first Olympics. At the 2000 Summer Olympics itself, she finished eighth in the final.
At the 2001 Australian Age Championships she added another four gold and two silver medals. However, she did not perform as well at the 2001 FINA World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan as she would have liked, finishing ninth in the 400-metre individual medley and eleventh in the 200-metre individual medley.
2002 was by far and away her best year to date. In April, at the FINA Short Course World Championships, she finished fifth in the 400-metre individual medley, eighth in 200-metre individual medley and 15th in 800-metre freestyle event. At the Australia Championships in Brisbane she took out the 400-metre individual medley for the fourth consecutive year and for first time was crowned the Australian Champion in the 200-metre individual medley. In July, at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England, she won first gold medal in an international meet taking out the 400 metre individual medley in a time of 4 mins 43.59 sec. To complement this she also won silver the 200-metre individual medley and finished fourth in the 800 metre freestyle event. She backed this up in August, at the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Yokohama, Japan, winning gold in the 400-metre individual medley in a time of 4 min 40.84 sec.
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