McKEON Emma

Date of Birth: 24 May 1994

Age: 27

Gender: Female

Youth Olympian

Place of birth: WOLLONGONG, NSW

Birth Country:

Australia

Place of residence : BRISBANE, QLD

Residence Country:

Australia

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Women's 50m Freestyle	1
	Women's 100m Freestyle	1
	Women's 100m Butterfly	3
	Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay AUS Australia	1
	Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay AUS Australia	3
	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay AUS Australia	1
	Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay AUS Australia	3

Records

Record	Event	Mark	Date	Location
OR	Women's 100m Freestyle Final	51.96	30 July, 2021	Tokyo (JPN)
OR	Women's 50m Freestyle Final	23.81	1 August, 2021	Tokyo (JPN)

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Butterfly - Heat 5	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Butterfly Semifinal 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Butterfly Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Freestyle - Heat 6	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Freestyle Semifinal 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Freestyle Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 50m Freestyle - Heat 10	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 50m Freestyle Semifinal 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 50m Freestyle Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	200Free	100Fly	4x100Free W	4x200Free	4x100Medley W
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	3rd (1:54.92)	6th (57.05)	1st (3:30.65)	2nd (7:44.87)	2nd (3:55.00)

Youth Olympic Games

Year	Location	50Free	100Free	200Free	400Free	4x100Free W	4x100Free X	4x100Medley W	4x100Medley X
2010	Singapore, SIN	3rd (25.61)	2nd (55.37)	3rd (2:01.18)	H (DNS)	4th (3:51.81)	2nd (3:31.69)	1st (4:09.08)	3rd (3:55.63)

World Championships - Individual Freestyle, Backstroke, Breaststroke and Butterfly events

Year	Location	100Free	200Free	50Fly	100Fly
2019	Gwangju, KOR	4th (52.75)	H (DNS)	-	3rd (56.61)
2017	Budapest, HUN	8th (53.21)	2nd (1:55.18)	-	2nd (56.18)
2015	Kazan, RUS	-	7th (1:56.41)	H (26.79)	4th (57.67)

World Championships - Medley and Relay events

Year	Location	4x100Free W	4x100Free X	4x200Free	4x100Medley W	4x100Medley X
2019	Gwangju, KOR	1st (3:30.21)	2nd (3:19.97)	1st (7:41.50)	2nd (3:53.42)	1st (3:39.08)
2017	Budapest, HUN	2nd (3:32.01)	-	3rd (7:48.51)	3rd (3:54.29)	2nd (3:41.21)
2015	Kazan, RUS	1st (3:31.48)	-	6th (7:51.02)	3rd (3:55.56)	-
2013	Barcelona, ESP	2nd (3:32.43)	-	2nd	2nd	-

Pan Pacific Championships

Year	Location	50Free	100Free	100Fly	4x100Free W	4x200Free	4x100Medley W	4x100Medley X
2018	Tokyo, JPN	3rd (24.34)	Final B (53.37)	3rd (56.54)	1st (3:31.58)	1st (7:44.12)	1st (3:52.74)	1st

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

Em (swimming.org.au, 2013)

Occupation:

Health Science - Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, AUS

Languages spoken:

Griffith University [Nathan, QLD, AUS]

Michael Bohl [club], AUS

Sporting relatives:

Her brother David represented Australia in swimming at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games, while her father Ron represented Australia in the sport at the Olympic Games in both 1980 and 1984. Her mother Susie [nee Woodhouse] competed in swimming at the 1982 Commonwealth Games, and her uncle Robert Woodhouse won a bronze medal in the 400m individual medley at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. (SportsDeskOnline, 20 Feb 2020; theaustralian.com.au, 07 Nov 2011)

A shoulder injury hampered her in January 2018. She had a cortisone injection in her troubled shoulder before swimming at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. (news.com.au, 06 Aug 2018; smh.com.au, 24 Mar 2018)

She was enrolled in swimming lessons as an infant. (olympics.com.au, 2010)

Her parents were both swimmers. "I just love being in the water. I was a water baby and we did everything around the water as a family. I got into competitive swimming as I love to race." (theaustralian.com.au, 01 May 2013; swimming.org.au, 16 Aug 2019)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (gc2018.com, 07 Feb 2018)

In preparation for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, she has focused on strength training to build muscle mass and increase the size of her frame. (nine.com.au, 18 Apr 2019)

Australian swimmer Libby Trickett. (olympics.com.au, 2010)

Her parents. (gc2018.com, 07 Jan 2018)

Philosophy:

"A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fail." [Serena Williams] (swimming.org.au, 01 Jan 2019)

She was the joint-recipient of the 2019 Most Outstanding Achievement award from Griffith University in Australia. (news.griffith.edu.au, 11 Nov 2019)

In 2017 she was named Swimmer's Swimmer of the Year and was presented with a Patron Award by Swimming Australia. (thenewdaily.com.au, 29 Oct 2017)

She and her 4x100m freestyle teammates received the 2014 Golden Moment Award from Swimming Australia, in recognition of their world record-breaking swim at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. (swimswam.com, 22 Dec 2014)

She was inducted into the Australian Path of Champions in 2014. The Path of Champions recognises the achievements of Australia's top athletes. (swimswam.com, 21 Oct 2014)

General Interest

General
RIO EXPERIENCE
Compared to her 2016 Olympic preparations, she says she has spent more time in the gym to prepare for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. "What I was lacking [in 2016] was strength behind most of the girls in the world so putting that good block of gym work in definitely made me a lot stronger I feel confident in that. After the 2018 Pan Pacific Championships in Tokyo, I kind of just did a lot of gym work, my focus was getting stronger so I really didn't do much swimming and then just heavy in the gym and I feel like that really paid off." (nine.com.au, 18 Apr 2019)

SWIMMING CLINICS
She and her brother David run swimming clinics at her family's swim club McKeon's Swim School in Unanderra, NSW, Australia. (McKeon Swim School Instagram page, 11 Oct 2018; illawarramercury.com.au, 17 Sep 2018)

BREAK
In 2011 she took a five-month break from competitive swimming before returning to the pool in 2012. (theaustralian.com.au, 01 May 2013)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Bronze Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event
OR:: Olympic Record

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