Tayla Lovemore
South African swimmer
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| Nationality | South African | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1995-03-20) 20 March 1995 (age 29) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly, freestyle | ||||||||||||||
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Tayla Lovemore (born 20 March 1995), is a South African swimmer who specializes in women's butterfly events and freestyle relay.[1] She competed in the women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships.[2]
Recruited to swim at Indian River State College, Lovemore received the 2016 NJCAA Women’s Swimmer of the Year award during her graduating year. In March 2022, Lovemore was named as a NJCAA Hall of Fame inductee.[3]
She continued her collegiate swimming career at Florida State University, where she was named ACC Swimmer of the Week by collegeswimming.com.[4] Becoming a Graduate Assistant afterward, Lovemore worked while receiving her Master's degree.[5] She then joined the International Swimming League, signing with the New York Breakers for Season 1 and the Toronto Titans for Season 2. As of September 2023, she ranked #68 for the top 100 all-time on a 50m butterfly short course performance and #84 for the top 100 all-time on a 100m butterfly short course performance.[6][7]
References
- ^ "TAYLA LOVEMORE BREAKS SOUTH AFRICAN 50 FLY RECORD, WINS WUGS GOLD". SwimSwam. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
- ^ "18th FINA World Championships 2019: Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay start list" (PDF). FINA. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
- ^ "Lovemore inducted into Swimming and Diving HOF". NJCAA. 1 March 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ "Lovemore Recognized as Swimmer of the Week". Florida State University. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ Serowik, Lauren (10 September 2020). "Swimming World Presents - How They Train: Tayla Lovemore". Swimming World News. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
- ^ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
External links
- Tayla Lovemore at World Aquatics
- Tayla Lovemore at the International Swimming League
- Tayla Lovemore at Swimrankings.net
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Summer Universiade Champions in Women's 50 m Butterfly
- 2001: Bethany Goodwin (USA)
- 2003: Shannon Catalano (USA)
- 2005: Vasilissa Vladykina (RUS)
- 2007: Fabienne Nadarajah (AUT)
- 2009: Sviatlana Khakhlova (BLR)
- 2011: Lu Ying (CHN)
- 2013: Aleksandra Gerasimenya (BLR)
- 2015: Lu Ying (CHN)
- 2017: Aliena Schmidtke (GER)
- 2019: Tayla Lovemore (RSA)
- 2021: Zhang Yufei (CHN)
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