Chelsea Hodges
OAM
Personal information
Full nameChelsea Mae Hodges
NationalityAustralian
Born (2001-06-27) 27 June 2001 (age 22)
Queensland, Australia[1]
Sport
SportSwimming
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m medley
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place 2022 Melbourne 4×50 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2022 Melbourne 4×100 m medley
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Birmingham 50 m breaststroke
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Birmingham 100 m breaststroke
Universiade
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Naples 50 m breaststroke
Youth Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2018 Buenos Aires 50 m breaststroke
Silver medal – second place 2018 Buenos Aires 4×100 m medley

Chelsea Mae Hodges OAM (born 27 June 2001) is an Australian swimmer.[2] She competed in the women's 100 metre breaststroke at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[3]

Career

At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Hodges was a semi-finalist in the Women's 100 metre breaststroke swimming the ninth fastest time (1:06.60) and just missing the final by 0.01 second.[4]

Hodges later swam the breaststroke leg of the Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay for the gold medal winning Australian team. Hodges was up against American 100m breaststroke gold medalist Lydia Jacoby and despite being 1.65 seconds slower than Jacoby in the individual event Hodges posted a time of 1:05.57 in the final of the relay which was only 0.54 seconds slower than the American. Hodges' breaststroke leg kept the Australians within striking distance of the Americans and with Emma McKeon narrowing the gap Cate Campbell was able to touch the wall first ahead of American Abbey Weitzeil to win the gold medal for Australia.[5]

In the 2022 Australia Day Honours, Hodges was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.[6]

World records

Short course metres

No. Event Time Meet Location Date Status Ref
1 4x50 m medley relay[a] 1:42.35 2022 World Championships (25 m) Melbourne, Australia 17 December 2022 Current [7]

a split 29.11 (breaststroke leg); with Mollie O'Callaghan (backstroke leg), Emma McKeon (butterfly leg), Madison Wilson (freestyle leg)

Olympic records

Long course metres

No. Event Time Meet Location Date Status Notes Ref
1 4x100 m medley relay[a] 3:51.60 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan 1 August 2021 Current OC, NR [8]
Legend: WR – World record; OC – Oceanian record; NR – Australian record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

a split 1:05.57 for breaststroke leg; with Kaylee McKeown (backstroke leg), Emma McKeon (butterfly), Cate Campbell (freestyle)

References

  1. ^ "Chelsea Hodges". Australian Olympic Committee. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Chelsea Hodges". Olympedia. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Swimming - Women's 100m Breaststroke Schedule". Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original on 6 October 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Chelsea Hodges". FINA. 13 December 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  5. ^ "Australia Puts Exclamation Point On Superb Week". Swimming World. 1 August 2021. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  6. ^ "Australia Day Honours List" (PDF). The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. 26 January 2022. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 January 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  7. ^ "Women's 4x50m Medley – Final – Results" (PDF). Omega Timing. 17 December 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
  8. ^ "4×100m medley relay final". FINA. 1 August 2021. Retrieved 6 December 2021.

External links

Olympic champions in women's 4 × 100 m medley relay
World short-course champions in women's 4×50 m medley relay
Commonwealth champions in women's 4×100 m medley relay
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