stephanie rice usa swimmer pictures and biography

Name : Stephanie Rice

Profession : Sportsperson (swimming)

Nickname : Ricey

Nationality : Australian

Stroke : Medley, Freestyle, Butterfly

Club : St Peters Western Swimming Club

Date of birth : June 17, 1988

Place of birth : Brisbane, Queensland

Height : 176cm

Weight : 67kg

Stephanie Rice (born 17 June 1988 in Queensland), is an Olympic gold medalist swimmer from Brisbane, Queensland, who holds the world record in the 200 m and 400m individual medley as of August 10, 2008. She was the first woman to complete the 400m medley in under 4 minutes, 30 seconds. Rice is trained by Michael Bohl from the St Peters Western Swimming Club.

She was the Gold medalist in the 200 metres Individual Medley at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia where she defeated Olympians Brooke Hanson and Lara Carroll to claim the gold medal in the event in a time of 2:12.90, a personal best by 1.19 sec. She also won the 400m individual medley.

At the 2007 Melbourne World Championships she won a bronze medal in the 200m individual medley in a time of 2 minutes 11.42 seconds, breaking the previous Australian record by a second. American Katie Hoff won the gold in 2:10.13, with Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe in second place. Rice once again placed third, earning her second bronze medal in the 400m individual medley final. In a new personal best time Rice finished in 4:41.19, taking .54 sec off her previous best.

Rice continued her strong performance, setting a new personal best time in the 400m individual medley at an Italian meet in June 2007. Rice went a 4:40.79, edging closer to the elusive 4:40 barrier in the event. At the 2007 Japanese Open Championships, Rice smashed her personal best time in the 400m individual medley and finally cracked the 4:40 barrier. In placing second to Zimbabwean champion Kirsty Coventry, Rice set a new Australian and Commonwealth record of 4:37.18?a personal best by 3.61 sec.

At the 2008 Australian Olympic trials, Rice broke the world record in the 400 m individual medley. Rice stopped the clock at 4 minutes 31.46 seconds, 1.43 seconds off American Katie Hoff's mark of 4:32.89. On June 29, 2008, at the U.S. Olympic Trials, Hoff retook the world record from Rice with a time of 4:31.12. Rice claimed her second world record of the meet, when she broke the 200 m individual medley world record, clocking 2 minutes 8.92 seconds to slash almost a full second off the previous record held by China's Wu Yanyan.

At the Beijing Olympic Games, Rice received her first-ever Olympic medal, Australia's first gold medal of the games and its 400th summer Olympic medal, winning the 400m individual medley in a time of 4 minutes 29.45 seconds. In the process she reclaimed the world record from Hoff bettering the mark by 1.67 seconds, thus becoming the first woman to break the 4:30 in the event, (Kirsty Coventry also went under 4:30 in taking the silver).

The glamorous athlete was romantically linked with fellow Australian swimmer and 50m freestyle world record holder Eamon Sullivan; they ended their 2 year relationship in July 2008, just prior to the Beijing Olympics.
stephanie rice usa swimmer
stephanie rice usa swimmer
stephanie rice usa swimmer
stephanie rice usa swimmer
stephanie rice usa swimmer
stephanie rice usa swimmer
stephanie rice usa swimmer
stephanie rice usa swimmer

stephanie rice usa swimmer

stephanie rice usa swimmer

victoria beckham stylish pictures

London, Oct 21 : Singer-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham has been approached by the animal rights organisation PETA to reconsider using reptile skin in her new handbag collection.

Victoria has created several different pieces from crocodile and lizard skins for her latest range but has been asked by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to contemplate using other materials.Singer-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham and husband soccer ace David Beckham have turned a matchmaker for model Kelly Brook.

Victoria has asked soccer star husband David Beckham to find Brook, who split from rugby player Danny Cipriani in June, reports femalefirst. co. uk.
victoria beckham with child
Singer-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham has come out in support of her husband, soccer ace David Beckham who is being accused of bedding a sex worker.

She claims that the rumours about her husband's infidelities are untrue and she's still madly in love with him, reports contactmusic. com.

"We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate,"Singer-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham will donate items from her personal clothing collection to raise money for cancer victims in Britain.
victoria beckham boobs
victoria beckham front and back side
The British fashionista along with other high-profile stars, including Stella McCartney, Sienna Miller and Elizabeth Hurley, hopes to raise funds for the Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign by giving a selection of one-off pieces of her wardrobe to a new eBay initiative, reports femalefirst. co. uk.Victoria Adams was born April 1974. She does not like being called Vicky. Instead, call her Posh, which stands for the best of everything (an old luxury liner term, P.O.S.H. stood for "Port Out, Starboard Home"-- the best rooms). Growing up, she didn't like being driven to school in her father's Rolls Royce (they were very wealthy; later, as Posh, she would have an image of someone who revels in wealth). Victoria began as a dancer before eventually landing a spot as a member of Spice Girls. While in college, Victoria was briefly in another band. After completing the 3-year course at Lanie Arts, she answered an ad in "The Stage" magazine, which was looking for 5 girls who could sing and dance.

Victoria was picked, history was about to be made. (Victoria had met: Emma who had been in a play with her when they were kids; Geri while auditioning for a role in Tank Girl (1995); Mel C. attended a rival school when they were 15; and Mel B. at the audition for the forming of the band.) The Spice Girls became fantastically successful, achieving international fame. The wildly popular Spice Girls performed at sold-out concerts, did tours, and of course the Spice World (1997) movie. Victoria married soccer player David Beckham, and they had a son in 1999.

Beckham and Victoria's love story

That year, 23 year-old Victoria Adams and 22 year-old David Beckham affection may say that is the legend-style romanitcism. Victoria and David before April, 1997 acquaintance, Beckham saw by chance in the guesthouse the spicy younger sister orchestra has sung the video recording, at that time, he pointed at on screen's spicy younger sister Victoria to say to teammate Neville: “that is the girl who I must marry.”
During the interview, Victoria Beckham has recalled her and David Beckham initially time knowledge quite interesting dialogs. Victoria Beckham said that she at that time said to David Beckham, she thought plays the soccer to be really bored, Beckham replied her saying that he thought spicy younger sister's music not how many flavors. However, these two as if were initially impossible to arrive at the together young people to be unexpectedly very quick falls deeply in love, hereafter, two person of telephones are frequent, sometimes one day must get several times, longest one time has long time of unexpectedly the 1 hour! Therefore, Manchester United's Head Coach Fugesen once reproved David Beckham to use his mobile phone's time to be too long.
January 24, 1998 was two person of excellent days, at that time they were approximately good in a Cheshire's hotel have the lunch, smug David Beckham has ordered 30 roses, when Victoria Beckham arriving at offered. Victoria Beckham recalls when the process which the fiance proposes said: “he takes out the ring suddenly, under Shan Xicui, said: `Victoria, marries to me! 'my hot tears filling the eyes, ask in reply him: `you will marry me? '” David · Beckham said,after they announce the engagement.
victoria beckham and david beckham wall paper

victoria beckham and david beckham

victoria beckham and david beckham image
victoria beckham and david beckham photo

victoria beckham and david beckham with child