Kaylee McKeown

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Kaylee McKeown
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Training at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires on 10 October 2018
Personal information
Full nameKaylee Rochelle McKeown
NationalityAustralian
Born (2001-07-12) 12 July 2001 (age 22)
Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia [1]
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Backstroke, individual medley
Club Griffith University [2]
Coach Michael Bohl [3]
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg AUS
Event1st2nd3rd
Olympic Games 301
World Championships (LC) 480
World Championships (SC) 311
Commonwealth Games 411
Total14103
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2020 Tokyo 100 m backstroke
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2020 Tokyo 200 m backstroke
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2020 Tokyo 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2020 Tokyo 4×100 m mixed medley
World Championships (LC)
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Budapest 200 m backstroke
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Fukuoka 50 m backstroke
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2023 Fukuoka 100 m backstroke
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2023 Fukuoka 200 m backstroke
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2017 Budapest 4×100 m mixed medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Gwangju 200 m backstroke
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2019 Gwangju 4×100 m medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2022 Budapest 200 m medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2022 Budapest 4×100 m medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2022 Budapest 4×100 m mixed medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2023 Fukuoka 4×100 m medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2023 Fukuoka 4×100 m mixed medley
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Melbourne 100 m backstroke
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2022 Melbourne 200 m backstroke
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2022 Melbourne 4×50 m medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2022 Melbourne 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2022 Melbourne 200 m medley
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Birmingham 100 m backstroke
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2022 Birmingham 200 m backstroke
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2022 Birmingham 4×100 m medley
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2022 Birmingham 4×100 m mixed medley
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2022 Birmingham 200 m medley
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2022 Birmingham 50 m backstroke
Summer Youth Olympics
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2018 Buenos Aires 50 m backstroke
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2018 Buenos Aires 100 m backstroke
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2018 Buenos Aires 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2018 Buenos Aires 200 m backstroke
Junior Pan Pacific Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2016 Maui 200 m backstroke
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2016 Maui100 m backstroke

Kaylee Rochelle McKeown OAM (born 12 July 2001) is an Australian swimmer and triple Olympic gold medalist. She is the world record holder in the long course 50 metre backstroke, 100 metre backstroke and both the long course and short course 200 metre backstroke. [4] [5] She won gold in both the 100 metre and 200 metre backstroke, as well as the 4×100 metre medley relay at the 2020 Summer Olympics staged in Tokyo in 2021. [6] In 2023, she was named as the "Best Female Swimmer of the Year" by World Aquatics, after sweeping gold in all three events of backstroke (50m, 100m, and 200m) at all three World Cup legs, held in Berlin, Athens and Budapest in October, 2023. [7]

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Background

Kaylee McKeown was just 15 years old when she joined her older sister Taylor on the Australian Dolphins swim team. She was one of the youngest members. [8] She currently trains with the Griffith University swim group with Michael Bohl as her coach. [2] [3]

Career

When she was 15 years old, McKeown competed at the 2016 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, held in August in Maui, Hawaii, United States, winning the gold medal in the 200 metre backstroke with a time of 2:10.01 and the bronze medal in the 100 metre backstroke with a time of 1:01.01. [9]

The following year, McKeown competed in the women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships, placing fourth in a World Junior Record time of 2:06.76. [10] [11] McKeown earned her first senior international medal for swimming the heats of the mixed medley relay, in which Australia placed second in the final. [12]

As a 16-year-old the next year, she was the youngest woman on the Swimming Australia roster for the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. [13] McKeown placed fifth in both the 100 metre and 200 metre backstroke events. [14] [15]

McKeown earned her first senior individual medal at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships with a silver medal in the 200 metre backstroke event.

In 2020, McKeown broke her first World Record in the short course 200 metre backstroke event, swimming a time of 1:58.94 at the Australian Championships. [16]

2020 Summer Olympic Games

Leading up to the 2020 Summer Olympics, McKeown was the fastest swimmer in the 200 metre individual medley but withdrew from the event to concentrate on the backstroke. [17] McKeown broke the world record in the 100 metre backstroke event at the 2021 Australian Swimming Trials swimming a time of 57.45. [18]

McKeown won the 100 metre backstroke at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics setting a new Olympic record of 57.47 seconds and becoming the first Australian woman to win a backstroke event at an Olympic Games. [19] She also won the 200 metre backstroke event in a time of 2:04.68, and swam the backstroke leg on the gold medal winning women's medley relay. [20]

2022 World Short Course Championships

Following her performances at the 2022 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships, held in Sydney in August, McKeown was named to the roster for the 2022 World Short Course Championships. [2] On the first day of competition, she ranked twelfth in the preliminaries of the 100 metre backstroke, qualifying for the semifinals with her time of 57.11 seconds. [21] Later in the morning, she qualified for the final of the 200 metre individual medley with an overall rank of fourth in the preliminaries with a time of 2:06.07. [22] In the evening session, she started off with a bronze medal-win in the 200 metre individual medley in an Oceanian, Commonwealth, and Australian record time of 2:03.57 before qualifying for the final of the 100 metre backstroke approximately 20 minutes later with a time of 56.35 seconds that ranked her sixth across both semifinal heats. [23] [24] [25]

On day two, McKeown won the gold medal in the 100 metre backstroke with a personal best time of 55.49 seconds. [26] [27] The morning of day three, she ranked tenth in the preliminaries of the 50 metre backstroke with a time of 26.24 seconds and advanced to the semifinals. [28] In the evening semifinals, she placed ninth with a time of 26.09 seconds. [29] Two days later, she swam the backstroke portion of the 4×50 metre medley relay in the preliminaries in a time of 26.42 seconds, helping qualify the relay to the final ranking first in an Oceanian and Australian record time of 1:44.78. [30] When the finals relay placed first in a time of 1:42.35, she won a gold medal for her efforts in the preliminaries. [31]

Day six of six, McKeown started in the morning in the preliminaries of the 200 metre backstroke, where she ranked second in 2:02.32 and advanced to the final. [32] In the final, she was the only one to finish in a time faster than 2:00.00, winning the gold medal with a 1:59.26 that was 0.32 seconds slower than her world record mark from 2020. [33] She concluded the session with a silver medal in the 4×100 metre medley relay, leading-off with a 55.74 for the backstroke portion to help finish in an Oceanian, Commonwealth, and Australian record time of 3:44.92. [34]

2023 World Aquatics Championships

At the beginning of the 2023 season, McKeown broke the long course 200 metre backstroke world record at the 2023 NSW State Open Championships. [35] With this record, McKeown became the second swimmer to hold the Olympic title, Commonwealth title, Long Course World Championship title, Short Course World Championship title, Long Course world record and Short Course world record in the same event concurrently, following compatriot Grant Hackett in the 1500 metre freestyle.[ citation needed ]

At the 2023 World Aquatics Championships McKeown swept the 50, 100 and 200 metre backstroke events, breaking the Oceanian record in the 50 metre backstroke and the championship record in the 100 metre backstroke. [36] [37] [38] McKeown became only the second swimmer to ever win the 50, 100 and 200 metre events of the same stroke during the same championships, after China's Qin Haiyang completed the breaststroke sweep the day prior. [39] [40]

2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup

McKeown was the overall winner of the 2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup after sweeping the backstroke events at all three stops. [41] At the final stop in Budapest, McKeown broke both the 50 metre and 100 metre backstroke world records (breaking her own world record in the latter) and became the first woman to break the long course 50, 100 and 200 metre backstroke world records during their career, and the first woman to hold all three concurrently. [42]

Results in major championships

Meet50 back100 back200 back200 medley400 medley4×50 medley4×100 medley4×100 mixed medley
PACJ 2016 —Bronze medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg17th——
WC 2017 4th16th—Silver medal icon.svg
CG 2018 4th4th9th——
PAC 2018 —5th5th—
YOG 2018 Gold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg7th—Silver medal icon.svg9th
WC 2019 4th5thSilver medal icon.svg—Silver medal icon.svg
OG 2020 —Gold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg—Gold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svg
WC 2022 5thDNSGold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg—Silver medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg
CG 2022 Bronze medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg—Gold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg
SCW 2022 9thGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgBronze medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svg [a] Silver medal icon.svg—
WC 2023 Gold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgGold medal icon.svgDQ—Silver medal icon.svgSilver medal icon.svg
a McKeown swam only in the preliminary heats.

Career best times

Long course metres (50 m pool)

As of 17 April 2024
EventTimeMeetLocationDateNotes
50 m freestyle26.59Queensland Championships Brisbane 14 December 2020
NSW Open Championships Sydney 18 March 2021
100 m freestyle54.29NSW Open Championships Sydney 18 March 2021
200 m freestyle1:56.142023 Queensland Championships Brisbane 10 December 2023
400 m freestyle4:06.85Victorian Open Championships Melbourne 24 February 2024
50 m backstroke26.86 2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup Budapest 20 October 2023 WR
100 m backstroke57.33 2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup Budapest 21 October 2023 WR
200 m backstroke2:03.142023 NSW State Open Championships Sydney 10 March 2023 WR
50 m breaststroke32.18Queensland Championships Brisbane 14 December 2020
100 m breaststroke1:06.86Victorian Open Championships Melbourne 17 February 2023
200 m breaststroke2:24.18 2023 Australian Championships Gold Coast 19 April 2023
50 m butterfly27.28Swimming Queensland Prep Meet Brisbane 15 November 2020
100 m butterfly59.45Southport Prep Meet Gold Coast 18 November 2023
200 m individual medley2:06.99 2024 Australian Championships Gold Coast 17 April 2024 OC
400 m individual medley4:31.682023 Sydney Open Adelaide 13 May 2023

Short course metres (25 m pool)

As of 14 December 2022
EventTimeMeetLocationDateNotes
200 m freestyle1:55.84Australian Championships (25m) Melbourne 27 October 2018
50 m backstroke26.00Australian Virtual Championships (25m) Brisbane 27 November 2020
100 m backstroke55.49 2022 World Short Course Championships Melbourne 14 December 2022
200 m backstroke1:58.94Australian Virtual Championships (25m) Brisbane 28 November 2020 WR , OC , CR , NR
100 m breaststroke1:08.06Australian Championships (25m) Melbourne 25 October 2018
50 m butterfly27.46Australian Virtual Championships (25m) Brisbane 27 November 2020
100 m individual medley59.14Australian Virtual Championships (25m) Brisbane 26 November 2020
200 m individual medley2:03.57 2022 World Short Course Championships Melbourne 13 December 2022 OC , CR , NR
Legend: WR – World record;OC – Oceanian record;CR – Commonwealth record;NR – Australian 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

World records

Long course metres

No.EventTimeMeetLocationDateStatusRef
1100 m backstroke57.45 2021 Australian Swimming Trials Adelaide, Australia 13 June 2021Former [43]
2200 m backstroke2:03.142023 NSW State Open Championships Sydney, Australia 10 March 2023Current [44]
350 m backstroke26.86 2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup Budapest, Hungary 20 October 2023Current [45]
4100 m backstroke (2)57.33 2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup Budapest, Hungary 21 October 2023Current [46]

Short course metres

No.EventTimeMeetLocationDateStatusRef
1200 m backstroke1:58.94Australian Swimming Championships (25m) Brisbane, Australia 28 November 2020Current [47]

Olympic records

Long course metres

No.EventTimeMeetLocationDateStatusNotesRef
1100 m backstroke57.88h 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan 25 July 2021Former [48]
2100 m backstroke (2)57.47 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan 27 July 2021Current [48]
34x100 m medley relay [a] 3:51.60 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan 1 August 2021Current OC , NR [48]
Legend: WR – World record;OC – Oceanian record;NR – Australian 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 58.01 for backstroke leg; with Chelsea Hodges (breaststroke), Emma McKeon (butterfly), Cate Campbell (freestyle)

Awards and honours

Personal life

In August 2020, McKeown's father, Sholto, died after a two-year battle with brain cancer. [6] She has a tattoo on her foot in his memory that says, "I'll always be with you". [55]

McKeown has been dating fellow Australian national team member and 2020 Olympian Brendon Smith since November 2021. [3]

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Records
Preceded by Women's 50-metre backstroke
world record-holder (long course)
20 October 2023 – present		Incumbent
Preceded by Women's 100-metre backstroke
world record-holder (long course)
13 June 2021 – present		Incumbent
Preceded by Women's 200-metre backstroke
world record-holder (long course)
10 March 2023 – present		Incumbent
Preceded by Women's 200-metre backstroke
world record-holder (short course)
28 November 2020 – present		Incumbent
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