Sophie Edington

Personal information
Full name	Sophie Jane Edington
Nickname	"Soph"
National team	Australia
Born	(1984-12-12)12 December 1984 (age 40) Loxton, South Australia
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Backstroke,freestyle
Club	Kingscliff SC Melbourne Vicentre
Medal record Women's swimming Representing Australia World Championships (LC) 2005 Montreal 4×100 m medley 2005 Montreal 4×100 m freestyle World Championships (SC) 2004 Indianapolis 4×100 m medley 2006 Shanghai 4×100 m medley 2006 Shanghai 4×100 m freestyle 2004 Indianapolis 50 m backstroke 2004 Indianapolis 100 m backstroke 2004 Indianapolis 4×100 m freestyle Pan Pacific Championships 2010 Irvine 50 m backstroke Commonwealth Games 2006 Melbourne 50 m backstroke 2006 Melbourne 100 m backstroke 2006 Melbourne 4×100 m medley 2010 Delhi 50 m backstroke

Sophie Jane Edington^[1] (born 12 December 1984) is an Australianbackstroke and freestyleswimmer.

Edington trained at the Kingscliff ASC club under Greg Salter. After Salter took up an overseas coaching role Edington moved to Queensland to train under the QAS program from the end of 2008. In 2010, she moved to Melbourne where she trained at MSAC. At the2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montréal she won two gold medals, with the backstroke leg in 4×100-metre medley relay, and as a heat swimmer in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay. She won three gold medals at the2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne: 50-metre and 100-metre backstroke, and the 4×100-metre medley relay in world record time of 3:56.30 seconds with teammatesLeisel Jones,Libby Lenton andJessicah Schipper. Edington set a new world record for the 50-metre backstroke at the 2008 Australian Olympic Trials. She was part of the relay team in 2004 that broke the World Record at the world short course championships. Four years after winning three gold medals at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games, Edington was successful in defending the 50m backstroke title to claim her fourth Commonwealth gold medal at Delhi in 2010.

After narrowly missing the 2012 Olympic team, Edington competed in the European summer circuit prior to working with Channel 7 News during the London Games. Continuing in the sports world, Edington moved to Switzerland and worked at the International Olympic Committee until the end of 2014. Edington now works for The Cambridge Strategy (Asset Management) and resides in Monaco.

Edington is pursuing a Doctorate of Business Administration at theInternational School of Management in Paris.

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