GOUGH Maddy

Australia
Swimming
8 Jun 1999
22
Female
COFFS HARBOUR, NSW
 
Australia

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
SWM Swimming Women's 1500m Freestyle 8

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Women's 1500m Freestyle - Heat 4
Finished
Tokyo Aquatics Centre
Women's 1500m Freestyle Final
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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World Championships
YearLocation1500Free
2019Gwangju, KOR5th (15:59.40)

Pan Pacific Championships
YearLocation400Free800Free1500Free
2018Tokyo, JPN4th (4:08.42)7th (8:27.28)6th (16:04.62)

World Championships Short Course
YearLocation800Free
2018Hangzhou, CHNH (DNS)


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, cycling. (thegreynomads.com.au, 01 Jan 2019)
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Biomedical Science - Bond University, Gold Coast, QLD, AUS
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English
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TSS Aquatic [Southport, QLD, AUS]
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Chris Nesbit [club], GBR
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She has competed in open water swimming at national level, and won the 5km mixed team relay and the 5km women's events at the 2020 Australian Open Water Swimming Championships in Adelaide. (SportsDeskOnline, 02 Feb 2021; sport.bond.edu.au, 08 Sep 2020; openwaterswimming.com 28 Jan 2020)
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She learned to swim while travelling around Australia on a camping trip with her family for two years. "While I loved everything about it, I mostly loved the water. We swam at rock pools and rivers, beneath waterfalls and in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean. I laughed and played and splashed with my brothers Oliver and Dominic and I think I was as happy as it is possible to be." (thegreynomads.com.au, 01 Jan 2019)
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When her family returned from their camping trip to Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia, she began swimming lessons. "I immediately signed up for proper swimming lessons, and then swimming squads, and I knew I was where I belonged. We moved to the Gold Coast when I was 15 so I could follow my swimming dream." (thegreynomads.com.au, 01 Jan 2019)
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To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (sport.bond.edu.au, 08 Sep 2020)
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She swims 85 kilometres a week across 10 pool sessions and also takes three gym sessions and a spin class. (sport.bond.edu.au, 08 Sep 2020)
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Making an Australian squad for the 1500m event for the first time in 2018. (swimming.org.au, 01 Aug 2018)

General Interest

General
TUMBLING RECORDS AHEAD OF TOKYO
In August 2020 she broke into the top 10 all-time short course times for the 1500m event when she set a new Australian record and the eighth fastest time in history [at the time] of 15:38.01. That result took five seconds off the previous Australian short course record and 10 seconds off her own previous personal best. "[The race in August] was a really good indicator of where I'm at, but I learned a lot of things about how I can swim it better next time." The following month she bettered her time with a new Australian record of 15:31.19 to set the fifth fastest time in history at the time. "The dream is still the Olympics, that would be amazing, so everything is working towards that." (swimmingworldmagazine.com, 26 Sep 2020; swimswam.com, 26 Sep 2020; sport.bond.edu.au, 06 Sep 2020)

UNIVERSITY DECISION
In 2017 she committed to join the University of Wisconsin in the United States of America for the 2018/19 season, but chose to remain in Australia to train with her club in preparation for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. She has studied for a degree in biomedical science at Bond University in Gold Coast, QLD, Australia on a swimming scholarship. (sport.bond.edu.au, 08 Sep 2020; swimswam.com, 28 Sep 2018; uwbadgers.com, 11 Dec 2017)

Legend
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
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