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Full name
  
Ellen May Gandy

Club
  
Nunawading

Weight
  
62 kg

Strokes
  
Butterfly

Height
  
1.69 m


Sport
  
Role
  
Butterfly swimmer

Nickname(s)
  
"Elly"

Name
  
Ellen Gandy

Coach
  
Rohan Taylor

Ellen Gandy British Olympian Ellen Gandy changes lanes The Australian

National team
  
Born
  
15 August 1991 (age 33) (
1991-08-15
)

Profiles

Ellen gandy wins 100m butterfly gold at 2012 british champs


Ellen May Gandy (born 15 August 1991), also known by her nickname Elly Gandy, is an Australian female butterfly swimmer originally from Great Britain. She represented Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics in the 200m butterfly swimming event, and was the 2011 World silver medalist at that distance.

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Following a disappointing 2012 Games, Gandy expressed an intention to swim for Australia, having lived and trained there since 2007, and served a period of ineligibility in order to do so. She represented Australia for the first time at a FINA World Cup event in Eindhoven in August 2013. Since her switch, Gandy has publicly adopted the first name Elly, the name by which she has been known privately in Australia.

Ellen Gandy Superstar Elly Gandy standing tall for Australia Funkita

Under her new flag, Gandy is the current holder of the Australian and Commonwealth short-course 200m butterfly record. She remains the British long course record-holder in 100 and 200 metre butterfly, and 4 × 100 metre medley.

Ellen Gandy London 2012 Olympics Ellen Gandy breaks British 100m

Ellen gandy wins the 200m butterfly at the 2011 british gas swimming championships in manchester


Swimming career

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At the age of 13, Gandy was selected by talent scouts to be a member of Britain's Smart Track squad of super talents formed by performance director Bill Sweetenham.

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On 19 March 2009 Gandy swam a European record time in the women's 200m butterfly at the British Championships in Sheffield. Her time of 2:04.83 beat the previous record of 2:05.61 set by Poland's Otylia Jędrzejczak and was almost two seconds faster than Jemma Lowe's previous British record.

Ellen Gandy The reinvention of Ellen Gandy has gathered pace in her

In 2011 at the World Championships in Shanghai, Gandy claimed silver in the 200m butterfly. She was second to Jiao Liuyang, China's Olympic silver medallist of 2008, and ahead of the bronze medallist Liu Zige, Olympic champion for China in 2008.

Gandy secured her place in the British team for the 2012 Olympics with victory in the 100 m and 200 m butterfly in the trials at the London Aquatics Centre. Gandy crashed out of the women's 200 metres butterfly on 31 July 2012.

Personal life

Gandy started school at Balgowan Primary School, Beckenham, UK and then went to Langley Park Girls School, Beckenham before moving to Melbourne, Australia in 2007 where she attended Carey Baptist Grammar School.

Ellen gandy wins 200m butterfly gold at british champs 2012


References

Ellen Gandy Wikipedia


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