Ella Ramsay

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Ella Ramsay
Personal information
Nationality Australian
Born (2004-07-12) July 12, 2004 (age 20)
Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
Occupationswimmer
Parent Heath Ramsay
Sport
Sport Swimming
Medal record
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Ella Ramsay (born 12 July 2004) is an Australian Olympic swimmer who competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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Early Life

Ramsay was born in 2004 [1] in Ipswich in Queensland. Her father Heath Ramsay had competed for Australia [2] as a butterfly swimmer but he had retired from competitive swimming and ran a swim centre in Ipswich. [3] [4]

Career

Ramsay demonstrated her versatility and performance at the Australian Age Championships in 2021. She raced at 50, 100 and 200 metres freestyle and at 100 and 200 metres breaststroke. She completed both the 200m and 400m individual medleys. She earned fourteen medals and in the following year the defended her position in five different disciplines. [5]

She came to international notice when she took a leg of the 200m individual medley at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in England. [6]

Her father had been her coach but she moved on to Dean Boxall at St Peter’s Western Club in Brisbane. [5] She took the silver at 100 metres breaststroke and the gold at 200 metres at the 2024 AUS Olympic Trials [1] qualifying her for an Olympic place. She also came second in the 200 metre individual medley. Her final qualification for herself and Australia was in her fast time for the 400m individual medley which was 4:36.56. [7]

Ramsay was in the Australian swimming team at the 2024 Paris Olynpics. [2] She was scheduled to compete in four events. She was to compete at breaststroke at both 100 and 200 metres and to race in the medleys at both 200m individual and in the 4 x 100m medley relay . [7]

She and Jenna Forrester were both in the same 400m individual medley heat for Australia. Ramsay qualified for the final but Forrester missed out by a fraction of a second after coming ninth. [8]

Ramsay qualified for the 200m individual medley final but was a late withdrawal due to COVID-19. [9]

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