Rachel Harris
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| Full name | Rachel Amanda Harris | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 15 March 1979 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Freestyle, medley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rachel Amanda Harris (born 15 March 1979) is an Australian former freestyle and medley swimmer who competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. There she finished in twelfth position in the women's 800-metre freestyle, and twelfth in the 400-metre individual medley.[1] She now works as a specialist Sport and Exercise Medicine physician.[2]
Harris won the gold medal in the 800-metre freestyle at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[3]
In 2003, Harris began studying at the University of Western Australia and graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery 2008. She is a sports medicine specialist and Fellow of the Australasian College of Sport and Exercise Physicians.
Harris is the Chief Medical Officer for Water Polo Australia and is based in Perth, Western Australia.[4][5]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ "Rachel Harris". Sports Reference. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
- ^ Rachel A Harris. Life after sport: swimming through transitions. Med J Aust 2018; 208 (6)
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- 1979 births
- Australian female freestyle swimmers
- Australian female medley swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for Australia
- Swimmers at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Sportswomen from Western Australia
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games swimmers for Australia
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists in swimming
- Living people
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- Swimmers from Perth, Western Australia
- Australian sports physicians
- Medallists at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
- Medical doctors from Perth, Western Australia
- University of Western Australia alumni
- 21st-century Australian sportswomen
- 20th-century Australian sportswomen
- Australian swimming biography stubs