Chelsea Hodges

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Chelsea Hodges
OAM
Personal information
Full nameChelsea Mae Hodges
NationalityAustralian
Born (2001-06-27) 27 June 2001 (age 23)
Queensland, Australia [1]
Sport
Sport Swimming
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m medley
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Melbourne 4×50 m medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2022 Melbourne 4×100 m medley
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Birmingham 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2022 Birmingham 50 m breaststroke
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2022 Birmingham 100 m breaststroke
Universiade
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2019 Naples 50 m breaststroke
Youth Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2018 Buenos Aires 50 m breaststroke
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2018 Buenos Aires 4×100 m medley

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

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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.EventTimeMeetLocationDateStatusRef
14x50 m medley relay [a] 1:42.35 2022 World Championships (25 m) Melbourne, Australia 17 December 2022Current [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.EventTimeMeetLocationDateStatusNotesRef
14x100 m medley relay [a] 3:51.60 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan 1 August 2021Former OC , NR [8]
Legend: WRWorld record;OCOceanian record;NRAustralian 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)

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References

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