| 词条 | Shelley Taylor-Smith |
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|name=Shelley Taylor-Smith |birth_date= {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1961|8|3}} |birth_place= Perth, Western Australia |death_date= |death_place= |show-medals=yes |medaltemplates={{MedalSport | Women's Open water swimming}}{{MedalCountry | {{AUS}} }}{{MedalCompetition|FINA World Aquatics Championships}}{{MedalGold | 1991 Perth | Open water 25 km}}{{MedalBronze | 1994 Rome | Open water 25 km}} }} Shelley Taylor-Smith (born 3 August 1961) is a former Australian long-distance swimmer. Born in Perth, Western Australia, Taylor-Smith suffered from scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine, throughout her school years. The condition required her to wear a back brace, although she was successful in national age group swimming competitions. While on a swimming scholarship to the University of Arkansas in the United States, the heavy training regime caused a lower-body paralysis. During her recovery, her coach noticed that her swimming improved at greater distances, and encouraged her to take up marathon swimming, a sport which would also allow her to avoid potentially back-damaging "tumble turns".[1] Taylor-Smith's first major achievement was breaking the world four-mile record in 1983. Subsequently, she won the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim five times, breaking the world record in 1995 for swimming the 48 km distance in five hours, 45 minutes and 25 seconds.[2] She also won the Australian Marathon Swimming Championships three times, and seven consecutive FINA Marathon World Cups. She won a gold medal in the inaugural open water swimming event at the 1991 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, and a bronze at the 1994 Championships in Rome.[3] Her autobiography, Dangerous When Wet: The Shelley Taylor-Smith Story ({{ISBN|1864480750}}) was published in 1996.[4] In 1998, Taylor-Smith was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome after prolonged exposure to polluted water and Giardia lamblia infection, and was given six months to live. She nonetheless went on to win her fifth consecutive Manhattan Island marathon, and then retired from swimming. Taylor-Smith currently lives in Perth, where she works as a motivational speaker for her company, Champion Mindset. In 1997, Transperth named a ferry the MV Shelley Taylor-Smith.[5] References1. ^The Competitive Ocean {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070214000727/http://www.ausport.gov.au/fulltext/1998/sportsf/sf980605.htm |date=14 February 2007 }}, The Sports Factor (Radio National), 5 June 1998. 2. ^Blair, Cynthia: It Happened In New York {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930235326/http://www.newsday.com/about/ny-ihiny041105story,0,3191598.htmlstory |date=30 September 2007 }}, Newsday, 14 July 1995. 3. ^{{cite book |last=Clark |first=David |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=ABC Australian Sports Almanac |year=2002 |publisher=Pan Macmillan |location=Sydney |isbn=978-1-74064-056-5 }} 4. ^[https://www.amazon.com/dp/1864480750 Dangerous when wet: The Shelley Taylor-Smith story], Amazon.com. 5. ^[https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Court/1997/08/New-Perth-ferry-to-be-named-after-Shelley-Taylor-Smith.aspx New Perth ferry to be named after Shelley Taylor-Smith] Premier of Western Australia 18 August 1997 External links
10 : 1961 births|Living people|People with chronic fatigue syndrome|Australian female swimmers|Female long-distance swimmers|Australian motivational speakers|People from Perth, Western Australia|International Swimming Hall of Fame inductees|World Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming|Australian long-distance swimmers |
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