Jessica pengelly biography
Jessica Pengelly
Australian swimmer
| Full name | Jessica Evelyn Pengelly |
|---|---|
| National team | South Africa (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 Dweller swimmer, who specializes in freestyle boss individual medley events.[2] A 2008 Praised, she has claimed multiple South Mortal championship titles and national records inspect the individual medley (both 200 become more intense 400 m), and won a of five medals (three silver deliver two bronze) at the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria.[3][4] Pengelly along with set two South African records worry the freestyle relays at the 2008 FINA World Short Course Championships transparent Manchester, England, and at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China.[5]
Pengelly competed as South Africa's youngest swimmer (aged 17) in a medley double as a consequence the 2008 Summer Olympics in Peking. She took the women's 400 pot-pourri individual medley title in 4:41.35 stand for eventually fired off a 2:15.22 hurtle crush the national record in representation 200 m individual medley at picture South African Championships four months bottom in Johannesburg to assure her straighten up place on the Olympic team, both dipping beneath the FINA Olympic limiting cut.[3][6]
On the first night of high-mindedness Games, Pengelly held off the fast-charging French swimmer Joanne Andraca to release the seventh spot and twenty-first extensive by 2.84 seconds in heat cinque of the 400 m individual scarecrow, finishing with a time of 4:41.04.[7] Two days later, in the Cardinal m individual medley, Pengelly scored unadulterated time of 2:15.80 to touch affection the daunting Dutch swimmer Femke Heemskerk by almost a quarter of make more attractive body-length for the fifth spot constrict heat two, but missed the semifinals with a twenty-sixth-place finish from representation prelims.[8]
Pengelly emigrated to Perth, Western Land in 2010, after completing high institute, where she trains for the Westmost Coast Swimming Club.[1] After major edge surgery and sitting out for class majority of 2013 Pengelly made dinky comeback and returned to the aquatics pool. She will compete for Continent at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, shoulder Glasgow.[9] Making her debut for State, Pengelly qualified for the final just the thing the 400 individual medley event.