Amanda Pascoe
Australian freestyle swimmer (born 1984)
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Amanda Pascoe (born 31 October 1984) is an Australian freestyle swimmer.
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| Full name | Amanda Pascoe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 31 October 1984[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg (132 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
Pascoe first competed for Australia at the 2000 Oceania Swimming Championships in Christchurch where she won gold in the 400-metre freestyle in 4:20.46 and with Heidi Crawford, Tammie Smith and Joy Symons won gold in the 4 × 200-metre freestyle relay in 8:24.69. In both events new championships record times were set. Pascoe also won silver in 4 × 100-metre freestyle relay with Crawford, Brooke Townsend and Carmen Cosgrove in 3:55.46, and won bronze in the 200-metre freestyle in 2:04.89 and bronze 800-metre freestyle in 8:56.83.
At the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Pascoe finished 4th in the 1500 metre freestyle in 16:16.80[2] and 12th in the 800-metre freestyle in 8:43.79.[3]
At the 2001–02 FINA Swimming World Cup event in Melbourne, Pascoe won the 800-metre freestyle in 8:21.27,[4] finished 5th in the 400-metre freestyle in 4:05.28[5] and 12th in the 200-metre freestyle in 2:02.13.[6] At the event in Paris, Pascoe won the 800-metre freestyle in 8:19.54[7] and was runner up in the 400-metre freestyle in 4:07.13.[7] In Stockholm, Pascoe won the 800-metre freestyle in 8:23.99,[8] finished 3rd in the 400-metre freestyle in 4:08.70[9] and 14th in the 200-metre freestyle in 2:03.23.[10] At the final event in Berlin, Pascoe won the 800-metre freestyle for the fourth time in 8:17.64,[11] finished runner up in 400-metre freestyle in 4:05.42[12] and 21st in 200-metre freestyle in 2:02.35.[13]
At the 2002 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Moscow, Pascoe with Giaan Rooney, Clementine Stoney and Lori Munz finished 4th in the heats of the 4 × 200-metre freestyle relay.[14] In the final, Pascoe and Stoney were replaced with Elka Graham and Petria Thomas who won bronze with a time of 7:49.50.[15] In other results, Pascoe finished 6th both the 400 and the 800-metre freestyle events with times of 4:08.68[16] and 8:29.98[17] respectively.
At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, Pascoe won silver in the 800-metre freestyle in 8:34.19[18] and finished 5th in the 400-metre freestyle in 4:14.74.[19]
At the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Yokohama, Japan, Pascoe finished 5th in the 400-metre freestyle in 4:13.33,[20] 6th in the 800-metre freestyle in 8:39.89[21] and 7th in the 1500 metre freestyle in 16:46.84.[22]
At the 2003 Duel in the Pool between United States and Australia in Indianapolis, Pascoe finished 3rd in the 800-metre freestyle in 8:37.52.[23]
At the 2003 World Championships in Barcelona, Pascoe finished 14th in the 800-metre freestyle in 16:38.70[24] and 15th in the 800-metre freestyle in 8:42.27.[25]