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Who is Lilly King?

She is an American swimmer who specializes in breaststroke. She currently represents the Professional swimming club “Cali Condors”, which is a part of the “International Swimming League” team. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won a silver medal in the 4×100 meter medley relay & the silver medal in the 200-meter breaststroke, along with the bronze medal in the 100-meter breaststroke. She is the current world record holder in the long course 100-meter breaststroke.

Quick Facts

Early Life

She was born on 10th February 1997 in Evansville, the county seat of Indiana and the third most populated city of Indiana, United States. Her father’s name is Mark King who ran track and cross-country at Indiana State University & mother Ginny King swam for Eastern Kentucky University and Illinois State University. She has a younger brother named Alex who is also a walk-on swimmer at the University of Michigan.

She attended Francis Joseph Reitz High School where she added several morning practices a week with the local master’s team and joined a competitive swim team called the Newburgh Sea Creatures. She attended Indiana University Bloomington, where she competed for the Indiana Hoosiers swimming and diving team.

Career

At the NCAA Women’s Division I Swimming and Diving Championships she has crowned the NCAA Champion in the 100-yard breaststroke (56.85) and 200-yard breaststroke (2:03.59). The performance makes her eligible as one of the best short course yards breaststroke swimmers in history, setting the American, NCAA, NCAA Meet.

That same year she was named the Big Ten Swimmer of the Year, earned four All-America honours, First-Team All-Big Ten. she continued her success by claiming the 100-yard breaststroke and 200-yard breaststroke titles throughout her collegiate career and was only the 2nd woman ever to sweep the two events for all four years. As a senior, she won the “Honda Sports Award” as the nation’s best female swimmer.

She won both the 100-meter breaststroke and the 200-meter breaststroke at the 2016 USA Swimming Olympic Team Trials and made her Qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics. In the 200-meter breaststroke heats, she finished 15th with a time of 2:25.89 and qualified for the semifinals. She finished 7th in her semifinal with a time of 2:24.59 but did not qualify for the final.

At the 2018 US Nationals, in World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju, she won two of three breaststroke events. She makes the record of the 50-meter breaststroke with a time of 29.82 and the 100-meter breaststroke in 1:05.36. She also ranked 5th in the 200-meter breaststroke (2:25.31).

In her first event at the 2019 World Championships, she won the 100-meter breaststroke at a time of 1:04.93. She also won the 50-meter breaststroke with a 29.84. She swam the breaststroke leg of the 4×100-meter mixed medley relay with American competitive swimmer Ryan Murphy, American freestyle and butterfly swimmer Caeleb Dressel and American competitive swimmer Simone Manuel. She was the only female swimmer to swim the breaststroke leg of the mixed relay out of all eight relays in the final.

In the 2020 US Olympic Trials on 14th June 2021, she set a Championship Record in the semifinals of the 100-meter breaststroke swimming a 1:04.72. Her time was also the fastest time amongst women globally in the long course 100-meter breaststroke for the year up to that point in 2021. In the prelims for the 200-meter breaststroke, she ranked third swimming a 2:25.82 and advancing to the semifinals. She swam a 2:22.73 in the semifinals, ranking first, and advancing to the final.

World records

Social Media Portfolio

She has 42.8k followers on Twitter & 139k followers on Instagram as of August 2021.

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