Stephanie Louise Rice is an Australian former competitive swimmer best known for the individual medley. She won three gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia on 26 January 2009. Earlier, at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, she took gold in the 200 metre individual medley ahead of the Olympians Brooke Hanson and Lara Carroll, and she also won the 400 metre individual medley there. At the 2008 Australian Olympic trials she broke the world record in both the 200 and 400 metre individual medley. She confirmed her retirement from swimming on 9 April 2014.
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gold medallist in the 200-metre individual medley at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne
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