Shrone Austin
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Full name | Shrone Austin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | Seychelles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Victoria, Seychelles |
31 January 1989 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle, breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Shrone Austin (born January 31, 1989) is a Seychellois swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and breaststroke events.[1] She first competed in the women's 100 m breaststroke at the 2004 Summer Olympics, before turning her sights on the long-distance freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Apart from her Olympic career, Austin had collected a career total of six medals (three silvers and three bronzes) in two editions of the All-Africa Games (2003 and 2011).[2]
Austin made her own swimming history, as Seychelles' youngest ever athlete (aged 15), at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she competed in the 100 m breaststroke. Swimming in heat one, she raced to third and forty-third overall in her lifetime best of 1:19.02, almost a full-second margin behind Armenia's Varduhi Avetisyan (0.15) and three-time Olympian and leader Katerine Moreno (0.67).[3][4]
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Austin decided to drop her breaststroke specialty, and instead challenge herself with a long-distance freestyle. Swimming against Hungary's Boglárka Kapás, and Thailand's Natthanan Junkrajang (who later forced to pull out from the prelims) in heat one of the 400 m freestyle, Austin came up with a steady swim throughout the race, but could not catch her Hungarian rival near the wall to finish only in second and forty-first at 4:35.86.[5]
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- 1989 births
- Living people
- Seychellois swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of Seychelles
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Female freestyle swimmers
- Female breaststroke swimmers
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