TITMUS Ariarne

Date of Birth: 7 Sep 2000

Age: 20

Gender: Female

Place of birth: LAUNCESTON, TAS

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 200m Freestyle	1
	Women's 400m Freestyle	1
	Women's 800m Freestyle	2
	Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay AUS Australia	3

Records

Record	Event	Mark	Date	Location
OR	Women's 200m Freestyle Final	1:53.50	28 July, 2021	Tokyo (JPN)

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 400m Freestyle - Heat 4	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 400m Freestyle Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Freestyle - Heat 4	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Freestyle Semifinal 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Freestyle Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 800m Freestyle - Heat 3	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 800m Freestyle Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Year	Location	200Free	400Free	800Free	4x200Free
2019	Gwangju, KOR	2nd (1:54.66)	1st (3:58.76)	3rd (8:15.70)	1st (7:41.50)
2017	Budapest, HUN	H (1:58.79)	4th (4:04.26)	H (8:37.10)	3rd (7:48.51)

Pan Pacific Championships

Year	Location	50Free	100Free	400Free	800Free	4x200Free
2018	Tokyo, JPN	H (26.13)	H (DNS)	2nd (3:59.66)	2nd (8:17.07)	1st (7:44.12)

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	200Free	400Free	800Free	4x50Free W	4x200Free	4x100Medley
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	1st (1:51.38)	1st (3:53.92)	H (DNS)	3rd	3rd (7:36.40)	8th (DSQ)
2016	Windsor, ON, CAN	-	6th (4:02.70)	4th (8:17.95)	-	4th (7:40.00)	-

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

Terminator, Arnie [reference to actor Arnold Schwarzenegger]. (olympics.nbcsports.com, 21 Jul 2019; abc.net.au, 21 Jul 2019)

Occupation:

Languages spoken:

St Peters Western Swim Club [Brisbane, QLD, AUS]

Dean Boxall [club]

Sporting relatives:

Her mother Robyn competed in athletics sprint events at national level in Australia. (olympics.nbcsports.com, 11 Aug 2020)

She sustained a shoulder injury in early 2021. (examiner.com.au, 22 Apr 2021; smh.com.au, 02 Feb 2021)

She began swimming at age seven at primary school in Launceston, TAS, Australia. (couriermail.com.au, 25 Nov 2019, 11 Apr 2018)

"I remember we did school swimming and I thought, you know, I really like swimming. I was seven so I went and signed up and started training, racing, and got into it.'' (couriermail.com.au, 11 Apr 2018)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (olympicchannel.com, 02 Jan 2020)

Winning gold in 400m freestyle at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. (swimming.org.au, 28 Jul 2019)

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal, US swimmer Katie Ledecky. (tennisworldusa.org, 15 Jun 2019)

She listens to music before competing. "Music not only gets me in the zone, but I use it to separate myself from other people and make sure I don't talk to anyone else, and really focus." (olympicchannel.com, 02 Jan 2020)

Philosophy:

"Motivating myself for training is always super easy because I always have my goals. I try to keep them in the front of my mind and I try to do a lot of self-talk, and repeat them. I remember the positive things I've done in previous races. If I have a bad race, the biggest motivation for myself is to look at where it went wrong and then try and fix that." (olympicchannel.com, 02 Jan 2020)

She was named Australian Swimmer of the Year, Short Course Swimmer of the Year and was the co-winner of the Patron's Award at the 2019 Swimming Australia Awards. (7news.com.au, 25 Nov 2019)

General Interest

General
LEDECKY RIVALRY
She says she has a friendly rivalry with US swimmer Katie Ledecky and enjoys competing against her. Titmus' victory in the 400m freestyle at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, Republic of Korea, was the first time Ledecky had been beaten in the event at a major meet since 2013. "Come next year [2020 Olympic Games], if she is at her best I cannot beat her, even with my best. Where I am now, I am not good enough to beat her best. But it will be a clean slate, it's going to be a tough battle and it's going to be exciting. I never go up against Katie scared, I'm always more concerned with what I know I can do and I know I can be good enough to beat her. We chat, she's just a normal person. She's lovely actually. We get along, like most competitors do." (theadvocate.com.au, 30 Oct 2019)

RELOCATION
In 2015 her family relocated from Launceston, TAS, to Brisbane, QLD, Australia, to provide her with better training opportunities. She was initially coached by Peter Gartrell following her move, before working with Dean Boxall. "I'm lucky to have parents that would do anything for me. A lot of other parents wouldn't pack up their whole lives and leave their jobs to move to Brisbane, but they wanted to do whatever they could to help me achieve my dreams." (olympic.org, 21 Aug 2019; couriermail.com.au, 31 Mar 2018)

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Legend

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

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