ANDERSON Haley

United States of America
Marathon Swimming
20 Nov 1991
29
Female
SANTA CLARA, CA
 
United States of America
LOS ANGELES, CA
 
United States of America

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
OWS Marathon Swimming Women's 10km 6

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Odaiba Marine Park
Women's 10km
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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MARATHON SWIMMING

Olympic Games
YearLocation10km
2016Rio de Janeiro, BRA5
2012London, GBR2

World Championships
YearLocation5km10km25km5km - TTT X5km - TR X
2019Gwangju, KOR-2--3
2017Budapest, HUN56--2
2015Kazan, RUS19---
2013Barcelona, ESP1--6-
2011Shanghai, CHN--DNS--

World Open Water Championships
YearLocation25km
2010Roberval, QC, CAN4

Pan Pacific Championships
YearLocation10km
2018Tokyo, JPN1

World Series overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017
Year10km
20201 x 5th
20192 x 4th
20181 x 1st, 1 x 2nd
20171 x 7th, 1 x 10th

World Series - Ten best performances since 2017
RankYearEventLocation
1201810kmSetubal, POR
2201810kmBalatonfured, HUN
4201910kmBalatonfured, HUN
4201910kmDoha, QAT
5202010kmDoha, QAT
7201710kmHong Kong, CHN
10201710kmAbu Dhabi, UAE


Legend
X - Mixed, DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified, TR - Team Relay, TTT - Team Time Trial

SWIMMING

World Championships
YearLocation800Free1500Free
2009Rome, ITAH (8:45.91)H (16:20.62)

Pan Pacific Championships
YearLocation800Free1500Free
2018Tokyo, JPN6th (8:27.13)5th (16:04.26)

World Championships Short Course
YearLocation400Free800Free
2018Hangzhou, CHNH (4:05.89)7th (8:18.70)


Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final
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Reading, watching TV. (usaswimming.org, 01 Jan 2020)
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Athlete
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Communications - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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English
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Mission Viejo Nadadores [United States of America]
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Mark Schubert [club], USA; Catherine Kase [national]
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Her older sister Alyssa Anderson has represented the United States of America in swimming, and won gold at the 2012 Olympic Games in London in the women's 4x200m freestyle relay. Her mother Colette competed in swimming for the University of Hawaii, while her younger sister Jordan swam competitively for the University of Utah. (usaswimming.org, 08 Nov 2016; USA Swimming, 18 Jan 2013; SportsDeskOnline, 11 May 2021)
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She represented the United States of America in swimming at the 2018 World Short Course Championships in Hangzhou, People's Republic of China. She also competed in swimming at the Pan Pacific championships in 2010, 2014 and 2018. (SportsDeskOnline, 11 May 2021)
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She began swimming at about age five in Livermore Valley, CA, United States of America. She took up open water swimming at the University of Southern California in 2010. (USA Swimming YouTube channel, 02 May 2019; swimmingworldmagazine.com, 01 Oct 2008)
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Coach Catherine Kase suggested she try open water swimming. "My older sister made everything look very graceful. I make everything look very hard. But I think Catherine also thought I had the temperament and the slight craziness that you need to be an open water swimmer. So I did a little camp in the US, an open water select camp. In 2010, I competed in open water nationals for the first time and managed to qualify for the 25km at the world championships in Canada. So my second-ever race was a 25km. That summer, while training for it, Catherine kept telling me the whole time, 'It won't be that bad. Don't worry. It's not that bad'. And afterwards I was like, 'It's not that bad? Not that bad? You psycho! It was that bad! It was awful!'" (fina.org, 29 Jan 2020)
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To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Swimming World YouTube channel, 03 May 2019)
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"99% of my training is in the pool. It's easier to calculate how fast you're going and keep track of progress throughout the season. But if I have a race coming up in salt water, warm water or cold water, I'll try to acclimate as best as I can." (fina.org, 29 Jan 2020)
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Winning gold in the 5km at the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. (fina.org, 29 Jan 2020)
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"I don't listen to music. If I'm listening to music, it means I'm thinking and being in my own head, and I don't want to be in my own head. I just want to hang out." (fina.org, 29 Jan 2020)
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"I don't count my miles. I like to race. If there's someone next to me, I will race them." (fina.org, 29 Jan 2020)
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She was named USA Swimming's Female Open Water Swimmer of the Year in 2013, 2015 and 2018. (openwaterswimming.com, 01 Sep 2018; swimmingworldmagazine.com, 05 Oct 2015; washingtonpost.com, 15 Sep 2013)

She was presented with the 2014 Golden Goggles Perseverance Award by USA Swimming in recognition of the gold medal she won at the 2014 Pan Pacific Championships, after her event was switched from Australia to Hawaii. She shared the award with Andrew Gemmell. (olympictalk.nbcsports.com, 24 Nov 2014)

General Interest

General
RIO DISAPPOINTMENT
She says she was not satisfied with her fifth-place finish in the 10km event at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, after winning a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. "I'm not happy - and I was never happy - with that finish [in 2016]. I put a lot of pressure on myself beforehand. I'm very rational and I know that no one else puts pressure on me. It's all coming from myself. But that doesn't make it easier. I want to be really good, and sometimes it's overwhelming. I think that's what happened in Rio. I overwhelmed myself. I've always handled stress pretty well but I don't think I handled it well that year." (fina.org, 29 Jan 2020)

SIBLING COMPETITION
She has swum competitively against both her sisters, Alyssa and Jordan. "Alyssa and I swam 2008 and 2012 US Olympic trials together. After Alyssa retired in 2012, I got to swim the 2016 US Olympic Trials with my little sister, Jordan. It was fun to be around for her career as well." She says each sister had their own strengths, and were thus never direct rivals. "All three of us kind of overlapped in events but we all had different best events. I was definitely more long distance. Alyssa was definitely more 200 free and fly and 400 free. Actually, she could swim anything she wanted to, she's that talented and that annoying. She also had a really good mile, but she wanted to swim other events." (fina.org, 29 Jan 2020)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
She has served as a member of the Athletes' Advisory Commission for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. "Being a part of the commission for the LA Olympic bid was really exciting. I was pretty bummed that we didn't get [to host] 2024 [Olympic Games], but I'm still happy that it's coming in 2028." (openwaterswimming.com, 01 Sep 2018; Deadspin YouTube channel, 24 Feb 2018)

Legend
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