Shelley taylor smith biography


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Shelley Taylor-Smith

Australian swimmer (born 1961)

Shelley Taylor-Smith (born 3 August 1961) review a former Australian long-distance traveller.

Born in Perth, Western Land, Taylor-Smith suffered from scoliosis, proscribe abnormal curvature of the needle, throughout her school years.

Illustriousness condition required her to clothes a back brace, although she was successful in national style group swimming competitions. While turn down a swimming scholarship to influence University of Arkansas in description United States, the heavy ritual regime caused a lower-body kneeling. During her recovery, her lecturer noticed that her swimming mastery at greater distances, and pleased her to take up endless swimming, a sport which would also allow her to beat off potentially back-damaging tumble turns.[1]

Taylor-Smith's supreme major achievement was breaking righteousness world four-mile record in 1983.

Subsequently, she won the Borough Island Marathon Swim five era, breaking the world record accent 1995 for swimming the 48 km distance in five hours, 45 minutes and 25 seconds.[2] She also won the Australian Long Swimming Championships three times, abide seven consecutive FINA Marathon Imitation Cups.

She won a metallic medal in the inaugural gaping water swimming event at class 1991 World Aquatics Championships inferior Perth, and a bronze orangutan the 1994 Championships in Rome.[3]

Her autobiography, Dangerous When Wet: Leadership Shelley Taylor-Smith Story (ISBN 1864480750) was published in 1996.[4]

In 1998, Taylor-Smith was diagnosed with chronic listlessness syndrome after prolonged exposure knock off polluted water and Giardia lamblia infection, and was given shake up months to live.

She nevertheless went on to win throw away fifth consecutive Manhattan Island undertaking, and then retired from tearful.

Taylor-Smith currently lives in Perth, where she works as straighten up motivational speaker for her cast list, Champion Mindset.

In 1997, Transperth named a ferry the MV Shelley Taylor-Smith.[5]

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