Jessicah Schipper

Jessicah Schipper is an Australian former competition swimmer, born on 19 November 1986, who specialised in the 100 and 200 metre butterfly and held the world record in the 200 metre butterfly. She made her Australian team debut at the 2003 World Championships in Barcelona and went on to win gold medals at the Olympic Games and the World Championships between 2004 and 2009. She won the 100 metre butterfly at the 2005 World Championships in Montreal, took both butterfly titles at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, and set a world record of 2:05.40 in the 200 metre butterfly at the 2006 Pan Pacific Championships. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics she won bronze in both butterfly events and a gold medal as part of Australia's medley relay in world record time. She regained the 200 metre butterfly world record at the 2009 World Championships in Rome, won Commonwealth Games gold in Delhi in 2010, and swam her last major meet at the 2012 London Olympics. She retired in September 2014 at the age of 27.