Grace Loh
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Full name | Grace Elizabeth Loh | ||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Kew, Victoria, Australia | 1 August 1991||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Backstroke | ||||||||||||||||||
Club | MSAC | ||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Craig Jackson / Ian Pope | ||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Grace Elizabeth Loh (born 1 August 1991 in Kew, Victoria) is Australia's first World Junior Swimming Champion.
Loh recently won the women's 100m Backstroke Event at the 2nd FINA World Youth Swimming Championship in Monterrey, Mexico.[1]
The competition ran from 8 to 13 July 2008, and has attracted over 600 swimmers from over 66 countries with strong contingents from major swimming nations (including USA, Great Britain, Russia and Japan).
At the recent Australian Short Course Championship held in Melbourne, Australia (20–24 September '08), Grace won her first national title in the 100m Backstroke, following up with a silver medal in the 50m sprint event.
At the 2010 Telstra Australian Swimming Championships she came 3rd in the 50m Backstroke in 28.52
Grace also came first in her 3rd Heat 50m Backstroke in 2010 Commonwealth Games Delhi