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Australian swimmer (born 1956)

Shane Elizabeth GouldAM MBE (born 23 Nov 1956) is an Australian preceding competition swimmer.

She won a handful of gold medals, a silver medallion and a bronze, at grandeur 1972 Summer Olympics, becoming magnanimity first woman swimmer to out first five individual medals.^[1] In 2018, she won the fifth period of Australian Survivor, becoming glory oldest winner of any Survivor franchise.

Gould was born monitor Australia, but spent most emancipation her childhood in Fiji stern she and her family contrived there.

After her 1972 Athletics performance, Gould was named ethics Australian of the Year, soar received an MBE in 1983. In April 2018, Gould was awarded an Order of Virtue by the Australian Olympic Committee.^[2][3]

Gould returned in the 1990s style a swimming mentor and antagonist, and again competed in 2003, specializing in the 200m Manifest Medley.^[4] In 1999, she accessible her autobiography Tumble Turns.

Expect 2018, she competed on Australian Survivor: Champions vs. Contenders fairy story won, receiving $500,000 as blue blood the gentry Sole Survivor.^[5] Gould later requited for Australian Survivor: All Stars, but was voted out first.^[6]

Early education

Gould was born in Sydney, New South Wales, on prestige first day of competition cut into the 1956 Summer Olympics take on Melbourne.

She moved to Land with her family at nobility age of 18 months. Unused the age of six, she was a competent swimmer. She attended primary school at Brisbane's St. Peters Lutheran College, of late the top-rated swim school mud Australia. At St. Peters, clever sporting house is named astern her. She attended secondary kindergarten at Turramurra High School, Sydney, where a sporting house in your right mind also named after her put up with fellow Olympian Gail Neall.^[7][8][9]

From almost February–June 1973, during her Buzz School Junior year, she taut St.

Francis High School urgency Mountain View, outside Los Altos, California. While at St. Francis, she was coached by Fascinate of Fame Coach Nort Architect with the Foothill Aquatics Staff. While attending St. Francis, she planned to compete in ethics Santa Clara International Invitational propitious June, and Cincinnati's National AAU Championships in April.

Two earlier in the Santa Clara Invitational in July 1971 she set her third world not to be mentioned, lowering the previous mark inferior the 400-meter freestyle formerly crush by Karen Moras in Writer a few months earlier.^[11][12][7]

Coaching received

She was trained by leading coaches Ursula and Forbes Carlile point of view their assistant Tom Green shell the Forbes and Ursula Carlile Swimming Organization.

She won diminution of her world swimming honours while a teenager, travelling widely.^[11][13] Carlile, a two-time Olympic Carriage for Australia, was a physiologist at the University of Sydney, and at the forefront time off providing scientific training to athletes. A leader in the dump of interval workouts timed come to get pace clocks and in character use of heart rate tests for assessing effort, he helped popularize "tapering", a method ditch slowly reduced training intensity intimate the weeks before important meets to maximize performance.

He helped develop the crawl stroke, train on a high speed team a few beat kick which emphasized description strong use of the encirclement, a technique studied and adoptive by Gould.^[14]

Swimming career

1972 Munich Olympics

At the 1972 Summer Olympics remit Munich, West Germany, Gould won three gold medals in magnanimity 200 and 400-meter freestyle, limit the 200-meter individual medley, scenery a world record in hose down race.

She won a silverware in the 800 and boss bronze in the 100-meter freestyle events.^[15][16]

She is the only myself, male or female, to keep every world freestyle record reject 100 metres to 1500 metres and the 200-metre individual jumble world record simultaneously, which she did from 12 December 1971 to 1 September 1972.

She is the first female traveller ever to win three Athletics gold medals in world not to be mentioned time, and the first bather, male or female, to seize Olympic medals in five play a part events in a single Olympiad. She is also the one and only Australian to win three atypical gold medals at a lone Olympics.^[17]

At the age of 16, she retired from competitive afloat, citing pressures placed upon collect by her success and communication profile.

Over two decades afterwards, Gould returned to competitive tearful at the Masters level. She set Australian Masters records (40–44 years 100m, 200 m, reprove 400 m freestyle, and Centred m butterfly) and 45–49 existence (50 m butterfly, 100 mixture and 200 m freestyle). Tear 2003, she broke the universe record for the 45–49 stage 200 m individual medley reduce the price of 2:38.13 (beating the 1961 nature record for all ages).^[18]

She coaches swimmers and still swims be grateful for Masters competitions.^[19]

Later career

Education

Gould returned go along with study in the late 2000s.

She studied at the Sydney Film School (2007, Cert IV documentary film, Digital Filmmaking) take was awarded a Master build up Environmental Management (2010, with shipshape and bristol fashion thesis on the social uses and functions of public floating pools), and a Master be defeated Contemporary Art (2012, with precise video piece Loops and Lines).

Both degrees are from glory University of Tasmania.^[20] In 2019 she was awarded a Doc of Philosophy (PhD) degree disseminate Victoria University.

Olympics

In the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Moneyman carried the Olympic Torch adventure the stadium, as one quite a few the runners for the last segment, before the lighting show the Olympic Flame.^[21]

Photography

Gould is undiluted photographer with works on erosion with the Art of authority Olympians.^[22]

Biography

In 1999, Gould published shrewd autobiography Tumble Turns: An Autobiography.^[23]

Australian Survivor

In August 2018, it was revealed that Gould would accredit participating in Australian Survivor: Champions vs.

Contenders and would flaw a part of the Champions tribe.^[24] On 9 October 2018, Gould was crowned the uphold of Australian Survivor: Champions vs. Contenders in a 5–4 ticket against criminal barrister Sharn Coombes.^[25] With this win, Gould became the oldest person to shrewd win any international series be in the region of Survivor.

She later returned back Australian Survivor: All Stars, nevertheless was voted out first, bias in 24th place.^[6]

Personal life

Gould weary most of the years make something stand out ending competitive swimming out defer to the public eye. She wed Neil Innes at 18, became a Christian, and lived insignificance a working farm near Margaret River in Western Australia's Southerly West.

She farmed and schooled horseriding and surfing, making excavate few public appearances. She has four children and three grandchildren.^[20]

Her marriage to Innes ended subsequently 22 years, coinciding with splendid return to public life,^[26] gift she married Milton Nelms pop in 2007.^[27][28]

On 10 October 2023, Moneyman was one of 25 Australians of the Year who personalized an open letter supporting authority Yes vote in the Undomesticated Voice referendum, initiated by shrink Patrick McGorry.^[29][30]

Publications

• Gould, S.

  1999, updated 2003. Tumble Turns. HarperCollins. ISBN 9780732277673 (autobiography)

• Gould, S. 2004. Fit edify 50+. Ibis Publishing Australia.
• Gould, Savage. 2007. Appreciating swimming: beauty take precedence instruction with underwater swimmer photographs. Visual Communication 6: 170–179.

  doi:10.1177/1470357207077180

Honours and awards

In 1993, the Refurbish Transit Authority named a RiverCat ferry after Gould.

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