Martina Moravcová

ClubŠKP Kúpele Piešťany (Slovakia)
Dallas Mustangs (USA)College teamSMU Mustangs

Martina Moravcová (born 16 January 1976) is a Slovak medley, butterfly, and freestyle swimmer. She made her international swimming debut in 1991 for Czechoslovakia, and has gone on to compete in five consecutive Summer Olympics (1992–2008). She is a two-time Olympic silver medalist, both achieved at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. In the 100-meter butterfly, she finished second to Inge de Bruijn, and in the 200-meter freestyle, she finished eight one-hundredths of a second to home favorite Susie O'Neill.

Early life

Martina Moravcová was born in 1976 in Piešťany. As a child, she liked to go to the swimming pool and swim in Váh river and when she became a young girl, participated in yachting on Sĺňava Lake.^[1] In the 1990s she moved to Dallas, Texas, where she started attending Southern Methodist University.

Career

In 1999, she was named the NCAA's Women's Swimmer of the Year^[2] While at SMU, she won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's top female swimmer in 1999.^[3][4] In 2002 and 2004, she was the top women's winner on FINA's World Cup series. Her 105 gold medals in this competition ranks her second all-time, behind Katinka Hosszú.^[5]

In 2014 she became a coach of a Slovak Swimming Camp at which she helped 700 children to achieve their goals.^[6]

Currently she is an assistant coach to Steve Collins at the Southern Methodist University^[7] and is a mother to two children.^[6]

References

External links

• Official website
• Martina Moravcová at World Aquatics
• Martina Moravcová at Olympedia
• Martina Moravcová at Olympics.com
• Martina Moravcová at Olympic.sk (in Slovak)

Records
Preceded by Jenny Thompson	World Record holder Women's 100 Butterfly (25m) 26 January – 22 November 2002	Succeeded by Natalie Coughlin
Preceded by Xiaowen Hu Jenny Thompson	World Record holder Women's 100 Individual Medley (25m) 12 December 1998 – 16 January 1999 2 April 1999	Succeeded by Jenny Thompson Jenny Thompson
Sporting positions
Preceded by -- Alison Sheppard	World Cup Female Overall Winner 2001/2002 2003/2004	Succeeded by Alison Sheppard Anna-Karin Kammerling
Preceded by Denys Sylantyev	Mare Nostrum Overall Winner 2003	Succeeded by Camelia Potec