Karin Prinsloo

Last updated

Karin Prinsloo
Personal information
Full nameKarin Prinsloo
NationalityFlag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
Born (1989-12-02) 2 December 1989 (age 34)
Marble Hall, Limpopo, South Africa
Height6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight154 lb (70 kg)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Backstroke, freestyle
ClubNorthern Tigers (University of Pretoria)
Medal record
All-Africa Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2011 Maputo 50 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2011 Maputo 100 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2011 Maputo 200 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2011 Maputo 50 m backstroke
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2011 Maputo 200 m butterfly
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2011 Maputo 4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2011 Maputo 4×200 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2011 Maputo 4×100 m mixed medley
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2015 Brazzaville 200 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2015 Brazzaville400 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2015 Brazzaville4×100 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2015 Brazzaville4×200 m freestyle
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2015 Brazzaville4×100 m medley
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2015 Brazzaville4×100 m mixed freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2011 Maputo 100 m backstroke
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2015 Brazzaville50 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2015 Brazzaville100 m freestyle
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2015 Brazzaville100 m backstroke
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2015 Brazzaville200 m backstroke
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2015 Brazzaville4×100 m mixed medley

Karin Prinsloo (born 2 December 1989) is a South African swimmer. [1] She was a member of the 2012 South Africa Olympic team, and competed in two individual events at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Contents

Personal life

Prinsloo was born in Marble Hall, Limpopo, in 1989 and she attended Ben Viljoen High School in Groblersdal, where she graduated in 2007.

Then she attended University of Pretoria in Pretoria, South Africa, where she is coached by Igor Omeltchenko.

Swimming career

All Africa Games 2011

Prinsloo narrowly missed out on the gold medal in the woman's 100 m backstroke, where she was up against African record holder Kirsty Coventry, of Zimbabwe. Coventry touched first in 1:00.86 with Prinsloo less than a second behind in 1:01.46 and Amel Melih, of Algeria, third in 1:07.27. [2]

Prinsloo struck gold later as part of the women's 4 × 100 m relay team of Natasha de Vos, Roxanne Tammadge and Suzaan van Biljon. [2]

2012 Summer Olympics

At the 2012 Summer Olympics she finished 20th overall in the heats in the Women's 200 metre freestyle with a time of 1:59.24, and failed to reach the semifinals. [3] She reached the finals of the 200 m backstroke, but was not fast enough to reach the final. [3]

2014 Commonwealth Games

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Prinsloo competed in the 100 m and 200 m freestyle, and the 4 × 100 m freestyle, 4 × 200 m freestyle and 4 × 100 m medley relays. [4]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kristin Otto</span> East German swimmer

Kristin Otto is a German Olympic swimming champion. She is most famous for being the first woman to win six gold medals at a single Olympic Games, doing so at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. In long course, she held the world records in the 100 meter and 200 meter freestyle events. Otto was also the first woman to swim the short course 100 meter backstroke in under a minute, doing so at an international short course meet at Indiana University in 1983.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Laure Manaudou</span> French swimmer (born 1986)

Laure Manaudou is a retired French Olympic, world and European champion swimmer. She has held the world record in freestyle events between 200 and 1500 meter. She is the daughter of a French father and a Dutch mother, and she is the older sister of Florent Manaudou who is also an Olympic gold medalist swimmer.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Federica Pellegrini</span> Italian swimmer

Federica Pellegrini is an Italian retired swimmer. A native of Mirano, in the province of Venice, she won a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. At the 2009 World Championships in Rome, Pellegrini became the first woman ever to break the 4-minute barrier in the 400 m freestyle with a time of 3:59.15. She also held the women's 200 meters freestyle world record.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Natalie Coughlin</span> American swimmer (born 1982)

Natalie Anne Coughlin Hall is an American former competition swimmer and twelve-time Olympic medalist. While attending the University of California, Berkeley, she became the first woman ever to swim the 100-meter backstroke in less than one minute—ten days before her 20th birthday in 2002. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she became the first U.S. female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympiad, and the first woman ever to win a 100-meter backstroke gold in two consecutive Olympics. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she earned a bronze medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kirsty Coventry</span> Zimbabwean politician and swimmer (born 1983)

Kirsty Leigh Coventry Seward is a Zimbabwean swimmer and politician currently serving as the Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation in the Cabinet of Zimbabwe since September 2018. A former Olympic swimmer and world record holder, she is the most decorated Olympian from Africa. She is a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and was elected the Chairperson of the IOC Athletes' Commission, the body that represents all Olympic athletes worldwide in early 2018.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics</span>

The 1972 Summer Olympics were held in Munich, West Germany, 29 events in swimming were contested. There was a total of 532 participants from 52 countries competing.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hannah Wilson</span> Hong Kong swimmer (born 1989)

Hannah Jane Arnett Wilson is a Hong Kong retired amateur swimmer. She is a three-time Olympic swimmer for Hong Kong, having swum at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and 2012 Summer Olympics in London. She has won two career Universiade gold medals. As of July 11, 2009, Wilson currently holds 10 Hong Kong records and two Universiade records in swimming.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jessica Long</span> Russian-American Paralympic swimmer

Jessica Tatiana Long is a Russian-American Paralympic swimmer from Baltimore, Maryland, who competes in the S8, SB7 and SM8 category events. She has held many world records and competed at five Paralympic Games, winning 29 medals. She has won over 50 world championship medals.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Femke Heemskerk</span> Dutch swimmer (born 1987)

Frederike Johanna Maria "Femke" Heemskerk is a former Dutch competitive swimmer who mainly specializes in freestyle, but also has a strong backstroke and medley.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Emily Seebohm</span> Australian swimmer (born 1992)

Emily Jane Seebohm, OAM is an Australian swimmer and television personality. She has appeared at four Olympic Games between 2008 and 2021; and won three Olympic gold medals, five world championship gold medals and seven Commonwealth Games gold medals.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ellie Cole</span> Australian Paralympic swimmer

Ellie Victoria Cole, is an Australian retired Paralympic swimmer and wheelchair basketball player. After having her leg amputated due to cancer, she trained in swimming as part of her rehabilitation program and progressed more rapidly than instructors had predicted. She began competitive swimming in 2003 and first competed internationally at the 2006 IPC Swimming World Championships, where she won a silver medal. Since then, she has won medals in the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, the Commonwealth Games, the Paralympic Games, the IPC Swimming World Championships, and various national championships.

Robert "Bobby" Hurley is an Australian swimmer and former World Record holder in the short-course 50 metres Backstroke and 2012 World Champion in the same event. In 2009 he won a bronze medal as a team member on the 4 × 200 m Freestyle relay at the FINA World Championships in Rome. He has five FINA World Championship medals to his name, two gold, one silver and two bronze.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Missy Franklin</span> American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist (born 1995)

Melissa Franklin Johnson is an American former competitive swimmer and five-time Olympic medalist. She held the world record in the 200-meter backstroke. As a member of the U.S. national swim team, she also held the world records in the 4×100-meter medley relay.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michelle Coleman</span> Swedish swimmer (born 1993)

Michelle Coleman is a Swedish competitive swimmer specialized in the sprint freestyle and backstroke events. She is the current Swedish national record holder in the 100 meter backstroke, and the 200 meter backstroke. She finished 7th in the 200 meter freestyle at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio and led off the Swedish silver medal winning 4 × 100 m medley relay team at the 2015 World Championships in Kazan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Simona Kubová</span> Czech swimmer (born 1991)

Simona Kubová is a Czech swimmer most successfully competing in backstroke events. Kubová is the first Czech female to swim 100 metre backstroke in long course swimming pool under one minute.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stephanie Millward</span> British Paralympic swimmer (born 1981)

Stephanie Millward, is a British Paralympic swimmer.

Melissa Jane Corfe is a South African swimmer, who specialised in freestyle and backstroke events. She is a multiple-time South African champion and record holder for her respective events. Corfe represented her nation South Africa at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won a total of five medals, including three golds in the women's freestyle, at the 2007 All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria. She also set two national records, as a member of the South African swimming team, in the freestyle and medley relays, at the 2008 FINA World Short Course Championships in Manchester, England.

Shim Min-ji is a South Korean former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and backstroke events. She is a two-time Olympian and a three-time relay medalist at the Asian Games (2002).

Taylor Madison Ruck is a Canadian competitive swimmer. She won two Olympic bronze medals as part of Canada's women's 4×100 metre and 4×200 metre freestyle relay teams at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Ruck won eight medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. Her eight medal performance of one gold, five silver, and two bronze tied her with three other athletes for the most all-time at a single Commonwealth Games, as well as making her the most decorated Canadian female athlete ever at a single Commonwealth Games. Ruck is the all-time leading medallist at the FINA World Junior Swimming Championships having won nine gold, two silver, and two bronze over the course of the 2015 and 2017 editions.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrea Murez</span> Israeli-American swimmer

Andrea "Andi" Murez, is an Israeli-American Olympic swimmer. She swam for Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She will represent Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

References

  1. "Karin Prinsloo". London 2012. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited. Archived from the original on 17 May 2013. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Prinsloo adds two medals to her tally".
  3. 1 2 Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Karin Prinsloo". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  4. "Glasgow 2014 – Karin Prinsloo Profile". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
Awards
Preceded by African Swimmer of the Year
2013, 2014
Succeeded by