SEEBOHM Emily

Date of Birth: 5 Jun 1992

Age: 29

Gender: Female

Place of birth: ADELAIDE, SA

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 100m Backstroke	5
	Women's 200m Backstroke	3
	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay AUS Australia	1

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Backstroke - Heat 6	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Backstroke Semifinal 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Backstroke Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Backstroke - Heat 3	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Backstroke Semifinal 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 200m Backstroke Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100Back	200Back	4x100Free W	4x100Medley W
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	7th (59.19)	SF (2:09.39)	-	2nd (3:55.00)
2012	London, GBR	2nd (58.68)	-	1st	2nd (3:54.02)
2008	Beijing, CHN	SF (1:00.31)	-	-	1st (3:52.69)

World Championships

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	200Back	200IndMed	4x100Free W	4x100Medley W
2017	Budapest, HUN	4th (27.37)	3rd (58.59)	1st (2:05.68)	-	2nd	3rd (3:54.29)
2015	Kazan, RUS	4th (27.66)	1st (58.26)	1st (2:05.81)	-	1st (3:31.48)	3rd (3:55.56)
2013	Barcelona, ESP	SF (28.29)	2nd (59.06)	-	SF (2:10.70)	2nd	2nd (3:55.22)
2011	Shanghai, CHN	5th (28.07)	4th (59.21)	-	-	-	-
2009	Rome, ITA	7th (27.83)	3rd (58.88)	-	SF (2:12.88)	-	2nd (3:52.58)
2007	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	SF (29.04)	4th (1:00.52)	-	-	-	1st (3:55.74)

Pan Pacific Championships

Year	Location	100Back	200Back	4x100Free W	4x100Medley W
2018	Tokyo, JPN	2nd (58.72)	6th (2:07.12)	1st (3:31.58)	1st (3:52.74)

Champions Swim Series overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2019

Year	50Back	100Back	200Back	4x100Medley
2019	2 x 4th	2 x 3rd	1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th	2 x 3rd

Champions Swim Series - Ten best performances since 2019

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
3	2019	100m Backstroke	Budapest, HUN	1:00.44
3	2019	100m Backstroke	Guangzhou, CHN	1:01.99
3	2019	200m Backstroke	Budapest, HUN	2:08.89
3	2019	4 x 100m Medley Relay	Budapest, HUN	3:48.43
3	2019	4 x 100m Medley Relay	Guangzhou, CHN	3:49.03
4	2019	Women's 50m Backstroke	Budapest, HUN	28.51
4	2019	Women's 50m Backstroke	Guangzhou, CHN	29.40
4	2019	200m Backstroke	Guangzhou, CHN	2:12.14

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

Year	Location	50Free	50Back	100Back	200Back	50Breast	50Fly
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	-	SF (26.93)	6th (56.98)	3rd (2:01.37)	SF (30.45)	-
2016	Windsor, ON, CAN	H (24.49)	5th (26.16)	4th (56.46)	3rd (2:02.65)	-	H (DNS)

World Championships Short Course - Medley and Relay events

Year	Location	100IndMed	200IndMed	4x50Free W	4x50Free X	4x50Medley W	4x50Medley X	4x100Free	4x100Medley
2018	Hangzhou, CHN	6th (58.78)	6th (2:06.80)	3rd (1:36.34)	6th (1:30.09)	5th (1:45.79)	7th (1:38.69)	-	8th (DSQ)
2016	Windsor, ON, CAN	2nd (57.97)	4th (2:07.41)	-	-	5th (1:46.27)	-	4th (3:31.21)	3rd (3:49.66)

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

C-Bomb (swimming.org.au, 01 May 2011)

Horses, spending time with friends and family, shopping, running. (tnp.sg, 19 Oct 2018; Twitter profile, 15 Aug 2017)

Occupation:

Australian Institute of Fitness, Australia

Languages spoken:

Griffith University [Australia]

Michael Bohl [club], AUS, from 2019

Sporting relatives:

Her father John Seebohm played more than 300 games of Australian rules football for Glenelg in the South Australian National Football League. Her mother Karen was a netball player and swimming coach. Her cousin Shannon Seebohm has played in Australia's National Basketball League and worked as a coach in Australia's Women's National Basketball League. (swimswam.com, 25 Nov 2015; adelaidenow.com.au, 26 Mar 2015; swimming.org.au, 01 May 2011; smh.com.au, 27 Jan 2008)

2007 for Australia (Swimming Australia, 14 Jul 2010)

She suffered from food poisoning at the 2019 Champions Swim Series in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China. (olympics.nbcsports.com, 14 Jun 2019; sports.yahoo.com, 11 Jun 2019)

In December 2016 she underwent surgery after she was diagnosed with endometriosis. She had first started experiencing symptoms in 2011. (theguardian.com, 19 Mar 2017; swimswam.com, 28 Dec 2016; whimn.com.au, 04 Sep 2019)

She dislocated her knee while riding a horse in May 2015. (olympictalk.nbcsports.com, 19 May 2015)

Suffering from the effects of swine flu, she collapsed after competing in the 100m backstroke final at the 2011 Australian Championships. Later in 2011 she also suffered from tonsillitis, bronchitis and pancreatitis. (news.bbc.co.uk, 14 Feb 2012; dailytelegraph.com.au, 04 Apr 2011)

She was introduced to the water before she could walk, and began competing at age five. (Queensland Academy of Sport, 18 Aug 2009)

Her mother Karen was a swimming teacher. (Swimming Australia, 01 May 2011)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sbs.com.au, 31 Jul 2017)

Winning gold in the 4x100m medley relay at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. (gc2018.com, 01 Apr 2018)

Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe. (gc2018.com, 01 Apr 2018)

She always puts her cap on from the back of her head to the front. (olympics.com.au, 14 Apr 2016)

Philosophy:

"Be the best you can be." (swimming.org.au, 01 May 2011)

In February 2016 the city council in Brisbane, QLD, Australia, opened the Emily Seebohm Aquatic Centre in the suburb of Fitzgibbon. (brisbane.qld.gov.au, 17 Feb 2016)

She was jointly named 2015 Female Australian Swimmer of the Year, sharing the award with Bronte Campbell. She won the award outright in 2017. (thenewdaily.com.au, 29 Oct 2017; swimswam.com, 05 Sep 2015)

She was named the 2014 Short Course Swimmer of the Year by Swimming Australia. (swimswam.com, 22 Dec 2014)

In 2009 she was presented with the Medal of the Order of Australia [OAM] for services to sport. (ABC News, 27 Jan 2009)

General Interest

General
EATING DISORDER
In December 2020 she announced that she had been affected by an eating disorder in previous years. "For over two years I've been dealing with an eating disorder. I've binged, purged and taken laxatives. I've counted calories, skipped meals and constantly weighed myself. I've been embarrassed to be in my togs. I have judged my body every time I have been in front of a mirror. I've been told that the only way I can swim faster is by losing weight and I have believed it. This year [2021] I'm going to be braver for myself. To give my body the love it deserves and to start I needed to be honest to everyone including myself." (olympics.com, 01 Jan 2021)

COACH, TRAINING BASE CHANGE
After failing to qualify for the Australian team for the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, Republic of Korea, she left coach David Lush and her training base in Brisbane, QLD, to work under Michael Bohl on the Gold Coast, also in Queensland. (swimswam.com, 02 Sep 2019)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
In 2019 she became an ambassador for Endometriosis Australia. "I was 25 when I was diagnosed and I didn't know a single thing about it. It sounds so simple a solution, but honestly it's a matter of talking about it. As soon as girls and women talk to each other we can start realising what's right and what's wrong when it comes to periods." (whimn.com.au, 04 Sep 2019)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Bronze Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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