Audrey Lacroix

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Audrey Lacroix
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Personal information
Full nameAudrey Lacroix
National teamFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Born (1983-11-17) November 17, 1983 (age 40)
Pont-Rouge, Quebec
Height1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight53 kg (117 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly, freestyle
ClubPiscines du Parc Olympique

Audrey Lacroix (born November 17, 1983) is a retired Canadian competitive swimmer from Montreal, Quebec. She is the Canadian record-holder in the 200-metre butterfly (short-course and long-course). She is a former world record-holder in the short-course 4x100-metre medley relay along with teammates Katy Murdoch, Annamay Pierse and Victoria Poon. [1] [2] She was a member of the Canadian team that finished 8th in the 4x100-metre freestyle relay and in 7th place in the 4x100-metre medley relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics. [3] She won the gold medal in 200-metre butterfly at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. [4] and a bronze in the women's 4x100-metre medley relay. She also swam in the 100-metre butterfly final, finishing seventh with a time of 58.78.

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In 2016, she was officially named to Canada's Olympic team for the 2016 Summer Olympics. [3] [5]

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