Stephanie Rice

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Stephanie Louise Rice, OAM (born 17 June 1988) is an Australian former competitive swimmer. She won three gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia on 26 January 2009.[1][2]

On 9 April 2014, she confirmed her retirement.[3]

Career

Rice was the gold medallist in the 200-metre individual medley at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, where she defeated Olympians Brooke Hanson and Lara Carroll in a time of 2:12.90, a personal best by 1.19 seconds. She also won the 400-metre individual medley.

2007 World Championships

Rice won bronze in the 200- and 400-metre individual medleys. In the 200-metre final, she recorded a time of 2:11.42, a second below the previous Australian record, behind American Katie Hoff in 2:10.13, and Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe, who claimed second place. In the 400-metre final, Rice recorded a new personal best time of 4:41.19, shaving 0.54 of a second off her previous best.

2007 World Championships Events
Final medal count: 2 (0 gold, 0 silver, 2 bronze)
Event Time Place
200 m IM 2:11.42 Bronze AR
400 m IM 4:41.19 Bronze
4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay 7:56.42 4th

2007 Other events

Rice set a new personal best time of 4:40.79 in the 400-metre individual medley at an Italian meet in June 2007,[4] edging closer to the 4:40 barrier in the event.

At the 2007 Japanese Open Championships, Rice won silver behind Zimbabwean champion Kirsty Coventry in the 400-metre individual medley. In doing so, she smashed her personal best time by 3.61 seconds, cracking the 4:40 barrier and setting a new Australian and Commonwealth record of 4:37.18.[5]

2008 Australian Olympic Trials

At the 2008 Australian Olympic trials, Rice broke the world record in both the 400- and 200-metre individual medleys. In the 400-metre individual medley, she clocked 4:31.46, 1.43 seconds below American Katie Hoff's mark of 4:32.89.[6] (Hoff retook the world record at the U.S. Olympic Trials on 29 June 2008, with a time of 4:31.12). In the 200-metre, she clocked 2:08.92 seconds, taking almost a second off the previous record held by China's Wu Yanyan.[7]

2008 Summer Olympics

In Beijing, Rice won three gold medals (each in world record time) in the 200- and 400-metre individual medley events and in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay. In winning the 400-metre individual medley, Rice won her first Olympic medal, Australia's first gold medal of the games and their 400th Summer Olympic medal.[8] Recording a time of 4:29.45, she reclaimed the world record from Hoff, bettering the mark by 1.67 seconds, and became the first woman to break the 4:30 mark in the event. (Kirsty Coventry also went under 4:30 in taking the silver.)

Her second gold medal of 2008 Games came on 13 August in the 200-metre individual medley with a new world record time of 2:08.45. Rice prevailed after being neck and neck with Coventry throughout the last 50 metres, who once again followed Rice to beat the old world record.[9] On 14 August she won her third gold medal as part of the 4×200-metre freestyle relay team. She led off the team and Australia was in second place at the end of her leg.

2008 Summer Olympics Events
Final medal count: 3 (3 gold, 0 silver, 0 bronze)
Event Time Place
200 m IM 2:08.45 Gold WR
400 m IM 4:29.45 Gold WR
4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay 7:44.31 Gold WR
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Rice at the Brisbane Olympic Homecoming Parade after 2008 Summer Olympics

2009 World Championships

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Rice interviewed by local media in Wagga Wagga in January 2010.

Rice began the meet with a solid performance in the 200-metre individual medley. Despite losing her world record, she sliced 1.42 seconds off her personal best time while capturing a silver medal. Experimenting with the 200-metre freestyle did not end well as she failed to make the final. With the absence of Linda Mackenzie, Kylie Palmer and Meagan Nay, the team was never in medal contention, finishing 5th. Rice retained her 400-metre individual medley record however finished with a bronze in the final. She was awarded a silver medal for her contributions in the medley relay heats.

2009 World Championships Events
Final medal count: 3 (0 gold, 2 silver, 1 bronze)
Event Time Place
200 m IM 2:07.03 Silver AR
400 m IM 4:32.29 Bronze
200 m freestyle 1:58.33 16th
4 × 200 m freestyle relay 7:46.85 5th
4 × 100 m medley relay (heats) 3:58.36 Silver

World Aquatics Championships 2011

Rice competed in the 200 m and 400 m individual medley. She failed to win a medal in 200 m medley finishing 4th in 2:09:65. In the 400 m medley she won a bronze medal with a time of 4:34:23, losing out on the silver by a deficit of 0.01 to Hannah Miley.

2012 Olympics

Rice competed in London after undergoing three shoulder surgeries between the two Olympics. She finished fourth in 200 m individual medley and a joint sixth in 400 m medley. The London Olympics was her last stop as a swimmer and she eventually announced her retirement in April 2014.

Personal bests

Rice had a personal best of 2:07:03 in the 200 m individual medley achieved at the World Aquatic championships, Rome in 2009 and a personal best of 4:29:45 in the 400 m individual medley achieved during her gold winning effort at the Summer Olympics 2008.

Awards

Personal life

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Rice in 2012
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Rice and Eamon Sullivan in 2010

On 17 June 1988, Rice was born in Brisbane to Raelene Clark and Warren Rice.[11]

Rice attended Clayfield College in her high school years in Brisbane, Queensland.[11][12]

In September 2010, Rice came under fire when she made a homophobic comment on Twitter,[13][14][15] relating to a rugby union match in which the Australian Wallabies defeated the South African Springboks. Rice's Twitter message said "Suck on that faggots!".[16] Rice later removed the remark and apologised for it.[17] As a result of the incident Rice lost her sponsorship with Jaguar Cars, and was forced to return her Jaguar XF.[18]

In 2013, Rice won season 3 of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia.[19]

On January 10, 2025, Rice married pastor Mark Lassey in Perth. Lassey spends his time preaching in Perth and in Dubai.[20]

See also

References

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Records
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world record-holder (long course)
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world record-holder (long course)
22 March 2008 – 29 June 2008 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
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world record-holder (long course)
10 August 2008 – 28 July 2012 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Awards
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/checkTemplate:Succession box/check World Swimmer of the Year
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Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/checkTemplate:Succession box/check Pacific Rim Swimmer of the Year
2008 Template:S-ttl/check 		Template:S-aft/check Succeeded by
Preceded byTemplate:S-bef/checkTemplate:Succession box/check Australian Swimmer of the Year
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