Sienna Toohey
Australian swimmer
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Sienna Rose Toohey (born 9 March 2009)[1] is an Australian swimmer. She qualified for the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in two events.
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 March 2009 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Breaststroke |
| Club | Albury Amateur Swim Club |
Medal record | |
Biography
Toohey is from Albury, New South Wales.[2] She has two brothers and her father, Damian, is the principal at Albury High School, where Toohey attends.[3] She started swimming because she wanted to play water polo, before deciding to focus solely on swimming.[4] She is a member of the Albury Amateur Swim Club.[5] Albury has no indoor swimming facilities, and thus Toohey trained "outdoors in all weather conditions".[2]
In 2023, at age 14, Toohey broke five records at the School Sports Australia Championships.[6][7] She competed at the 2024 Australian Swimming Trials and won the bronze medal in the 100m breaststroke with a time of 1:07.01, breaking the 24-year-old record in her age group held by Leisel Jones, while narrowly missing qualification to the 2024 Summer Olympics by less than a tenth of a second.[8] In August 2024, she competed at the 2024 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, winning a silver medal in the 100m breaststroke.[9]
At the 2025 Australian Age Championships, Toohey won four gold medals and set two national records in her age group, earning selection to the World Junior Championships.[10] She spent six weeks training in Canberra away from her family in preparation for the 2025 Australian Swimming Trials.[2] There, she set a personal best in the 100m with a time of 1:06.55, finishing first and thus qualifying for the 2025 World Aquatics Championships.[11][12]