Full name Helen Jennifer Denman Club Southside Dolphins Weight 70 kg Strokes Breaststroke, medley Height 1.82 m | Sport Swimming Role Breaststroke swimmer National team Australia Name Helen Denman | |
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Born 4 September 1976 (age 47) ( 1976-09-04 ) Perth, Western Australia Olympic medals Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay Similar People Samantha Riley, Susie O'Neill, Nicole Livingstone, Angela Kennedy, Sarah Ryan | ||
1998 helen denman silver 1998 world champs womens 100m breastroke kowal gold
Helen Jennifer Denman (born 4 September 1976) is an Australian breaststroke swimmer of the 1990s, who won a silver medal in the 4×100-metre medley relay at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She won an individual silver medal in the 100-metre breaststroke at the 1998 World Aquatics Championships.
Denman qualified for her first international team at the Australian Championships in 1996, after winning the 100-metre breaststroke. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Denman placed 11th in the 100-metre breaststroke, but fellow Australian Samantha Riley won the bronze medal. This meant that Denman swum the breaststroke leg in the heats of the 4×100-metre medley relay, before being replaced by Riley in the team that trailed the United States team home in the final.
Competing in front of a partisan home crowd at the 1998 World Championships in Perth, Denman set a personal best in winning silver in the 100-metre breaststroke, pushing American Kristy Kowal to within an arm's length. She also combined with Meredith Smith, Petria Thomas and Susie O'Neill in the final of the 4×100-metre medley relay to claim silver behind the Americans.
At the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Denman claimed gold in the 100 m breaststroke and the 4×100-metre medley relay. In 1999 she was omitted from the Australian national team, and in 2000 she made an unsuccessful attempt to qualify for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.