Felicity Galvez

Personal information
Full name	Felicity Madeline Galvez
National team	Australia
Born	(1985-03-04)4 March 1985 (age 40) Melbourne, Victoria
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle,butterfly
Club	SOPAC
Medal record Women's swimming Representing Australia Olympic Games 2008 Beijing 4×100 m medley 2008 Beijing 4×200 m freestyle World Championships (LC) 2005 Montreal 4×100m medley 2007 Melbourne 4×100 m medley 2009 Rome 4×100 m freestyle World Championships (SC) 2004 Indianapolis 4×100 m medley 2008 Manchester 50 m butterfly 2008 Manchester 100 m butterfly 2010 Dubai 100 m butterfly 2008 Manchester 200 m butterfly 2008 Manchester 4×100 m medley 2010 Dubai 50 m butterfly 2010 Dubai 4×100 m medley Pan Pacific Championships 2010 Irvine 4×100 m freestyle Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi 4×100 m freestyle 2006 Melbourne 200 m butterfly

Felicity Madeline Galvez,OAM^[1] (born 4 March 1985) is an Australianswimmer and two-time Olympic gold medalist. She was anAustralian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.^[2]She was educated atRunnymede College in Madrid.

She broke both the short course 50-metre and 100-metrebutterfly world records in 2008, in 25.32 and 55.89, respectively. The 100-metre record lasted for less than a month, as teammateLibby Trickett lowered it on 26 April 2008. The 50-metre record was broken byTherese Alshammar during the Stockholm stop of the 2008 FINA World Cup Series, butMarieke Guehrer returned it to Australian hands just days later. Galvez broke the 100m butterfly short course world record again at the 2009 FINA World Cup Series in Stockholm with a 55.46. That is 0.22 seconds faster than the previous mark of 55.68 set by Australian teammate,Jessicah Schipper on 12 August 2009.

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• Felicity Galvez at the Australian Olympic Committee at theWayback Machine (archived 13 June 2019)

• 1985 births
• Living people
• Australian female butterfly swimmers
• World record setters in swimming
• Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
• Olympic swimmers for Australia
• Olympic gold medalists for Australia
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• Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
• Swimmers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
• Australian female freestyle swimmers
• World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
• Australian Institute of Sport swimmers
• Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
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• People educated at MLC School
• Swimmers from Melbourne
• Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
• Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
• Swimmers at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
• Olympic gold medalists in swimming
• Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming
• Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
• Medallists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
• Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
• 21st-century Australian sportswomen

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