Kirsty Balfour
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Full name | Kirsty Balfour | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | "Balf" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National team | Great Britain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1984-02-21) 21 February 1984 (age 40) Edinburgh, Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 61 kg (134 lb; 9.6 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | City of Edinburgh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kirsty Balfour (born 21 February 1984), also known by her married name Kirsty Kettles, is a Scottish former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympic Games, FINA world championships and European championships, and competed for Scotland in the Commonwealth Games. She specialized in breaststroke events.
She won a gold medal in the 200-metre breaststroke at the European Long-Course Championships in 2006, and took silver in same event at the World Championships in Melbourne in 2007.
She announced her retirement from swimming on 7 November 2008, stating she planned to do more work for her church.[1] She got married the following day.[2]
Personal bests and records held
Event | Long course | Short course |
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50 m breaststroke | 29.08 (2006) | 31.56 (2008) |
100 m breaststroke | 1:07.83 (2006) | 1:06.37 (2008) |
200 m breaststroke | 2:24.04 (2006) NR | 2:21.82 (2006) NR |
Record Key NR:British |
References
External links
- British Swimming athlete profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 6 November 2007)
- British Olympic Association athlete profile
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kirsty Balfour". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
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- 1931: Cecelia Wolstenholme (GBR)
- 1934: Martha Genenger (GER)
- 1938: Inge Sørensen (DEN)
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- 1995: Brigitte Becue (BEL)
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- 1999: Ágnes Kovács (HUN)
- 2000: Beatrice Câșlaru (ROM)
- 2002: Mirna Jukić (AUT)
- 2004: Mirna Jukić (AUT)
- 2006: Kirsty Balfour (GBR)
- 2008: Yuliya Yefimova (RUS)
- 2010: Anastasia Chaun (RUS)
- 2012: Sara Nordenstam (NOR)
- 2014: Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN)
- 2016: Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN)
- 2018: Yuliya Yefimova (RUS)
- 2020: Molly Renshaw (GBR)
- 2022: Lisa Mamié (SUI)
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