Madeline Groves
Madeline Groves swimming at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships in Kazan, Russia
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| Nickname(s) | Mad Dog, Machine Gun | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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25 May 1995 (age 21) Brisbane |
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| Height | 179 cm (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 66 kg (10 st 6 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Butterfly, Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Madeline Groves (born 25 May 1995) is an Australian competitive swimmer. She was the Australian national champion in the 200 m butterfly event in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games she was a bronze medallist in the 200 m butterfly event, and swam in the heats for the gold medal-winning Australian freestyle relay team. She was selected to represent Australia in the 100 m and 200 m butterfly, and 4 × 200 m freestyle relay events at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Madeline Groves was born in Brisbane, Queensland, on 25 May 1995. She has two brothers. She attended Wilston State Primary School and St Peters Lutheran College. In 2014, she was an inaugural recipient of the Georgina Hope Rinehart Swimming Excellence Scholarship to study for a Bachelor of Social Science degree at Bond University on Queensland's Gold Coast.
Groves learned to swim when she was a baby, and started competitive swimming when she was twelve years old. As a junior, she won the 100 m and 200 m butterfly and 4 × 100 m medley events, and silver in the 50 m butterfly, at the 2010 Oceania Swimming Championships in Samoa. At the Junior Pan Pacific championships in Hawaii that year she came second in the 200 m butterfly and fifth in the 100 m butterfly events. She took 2011 off, but returned to competitive swimming after she finished high school. She is coached by Michael Bohl at St Peter's Western, where Mitch Larkin, Bronte Barratt, Madison Wilson and Grant Irvine also train. She has known Bohl since 2008, and he has been her coach since 2012. She has been nicknamed "Mad Dog" and "Machine Gun".
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