Kaylee McKeown

Kaylee McKeown
OAM
Training at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires on 10 October 2018
Personal information
Full nameKaylee Rochelle McKeown
Born (2001-07-12) 12 July 2001 (age 23)
Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia[3]
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBackstroke, individual medley
ClubGriffith University[1]
CoachMichael Bohl[2]
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing  Australia
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 5 1 3
World Championships (LC) 4 8 0
World Championships (SC) 3 1 1
Commonwealth Games 4 1 1
Total 16 11 5
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 100 m backstroke
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 200 m backstroke
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris 100 m backstroke
Gold medal – first place 2024 Paris 200 m backstroke
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m mixed medley
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Paris 200 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Paris 4×100 m mixed medley
World Championships (LC)
Gold medal – first place 2022 Budapest 200 m backstroke
Gold medal – first place 2023 Fukuoka 50 m backstroke
Gold medal – first place 2023 Fukuoka 100 m backstroke
Gold medal – first place 2023 Fukuoka 200 m backstroke
Silver medal – second place 2017 Budapest 4×100 m mixed medley
Silver medal – second place 2019 Gwangju 200 m backstroke
Silver medal – second place 2019 Gwangju 4×100 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2022 Budapest 200 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2022 Budapest 4×100 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2022 Budapest 4×100 m mixed medley
Silver medal – second place 2023 Fukuoka 4×100 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2023 Fukuoka 4×100 m mixed medley
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place 2022 Melbourne 100 m backstroke
Gold medal – first place 2022 Melbourne 200 m backstroke
Gold medal – first place 2022 Melbourne 4×50 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2022 Melbourne 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Melbourne 200 m medley
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham 100 m backstroke
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham 200 m backstroke
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham 4×100 m medley
Gold medal – first place 2022 Birmingham 4×100 m mixed medley
Silver medal – second place 2022 Birmingham 200 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Birmingham 50 m backstroke
Summer Youth Olympics
Gold medal – first place 2018 Buenos Aires 50 m backstroke
Silver medal – second place 2018 Buenos Aires 100 m backstroke
Silver medal – second place 2018 Buenos Aires 4×100 m medley
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Buenos Aires 200 m backstroke
Junior Pan Pacific Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Maui 200 m backstroke
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Maui 100 m backstroke

Kaylee Rochelle McKeown OAM (/məˈkjuːən/ mə-KEW-ən; born 12 July 2001) is an Australian swimmer and quintuple Olympic gold medalist. She is the reigning Olympic champion in the 100 and 200 metres backstroke. She is the world record holder in the long course 50 metre backstroke and the long course 200 metre backstroke, and formerly in the 100 metre backstroke (long course and short course) and 200 metre backstroke (short course).[4][5] She won gold in both the 100 metre and 200 metre backstroke at both the 2020 and 2024 Olympics. In 2023, she was named as the "Best Female Swimmer of the Year" by World Aquatics, after sweeping gold in all three events of backstroke (50m, 100m, and 200m) at all three World Cup legs, held in Berlin, Athens and Budapest in October, 2023.[6]

Background

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Kaylee McKeown was just 15 years old when she joined her older sister Taylor on the Australian Dolphins swim team. She was one of the youngest members.[7] She currently trains with the Griffith University swim group with Michael Bohl as her coach.[1][2]

Career

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When she was 15 years old, McKeown competed at the 2016 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, held in August in Maui, Hawaii, United States, winning the gold medal in the 200 metre backstroke with a time of 2:10.01 and the bronze medal in the 100 metre backstroke with a time of 1:01.01.[8]

The following year, McKeown competed in the women's 200 metre backstroke event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships, placing fourth in a World Junior Record time of 2:06.76.[9][10] McKeown earned her first senior international medal for swimming the heats of the mixed medley relay, in which Australia placed second in the final.[11]

As a 16-year-old the next year, she was the youngest woman on the Swimming Australia roster for the 2018 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.[12] McKeown placed fifth in both the 100 metre and 200 metre backstroke events.[13][14]

McKeown earned her first senior individual medal at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships with a silver medal in the 200 metre backstroke event.

In 2020, McKeown broke her first World Record in the short course 200 metre backstroke event, swimming a time of 1:58.94 at the Australian Championships.[15]

2020 Summer Olympic Games

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Leading up to the 2020 Summer Olympics, McKeown was the fastest swimmer in the 200 metre individual medley but withdrew from the event to concentrate on the backstroke.[16] McKeown broke the world record in the 100 metre backstroke event at the 2021 Australian Swimming Trials swimming a time of 57.45.[17]

McKeown won the 100 metre backstroke at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics setting a new Olympic record of 57.47 seconds and becoming the first Australian woman to win a backstroke event at an Olympic Games.[18] She also won the 200 metre backstroke event in a time of 2:04.68, and swam the backstroke leg on the gold medal winning women's medley relay.[19]

Following the 2020 Games, McKeown's longtime Chris Mooney left USC Spartans on the Sunshine Coast and moved to become head coach at Bond University on the Gold Coast. McKeown then transferred to Griffith University Swimming Club on the Gold Coast to train under Michael Bohl, who was best known for coaching Olympic Champions Emma McKeon and Stephanie Rice.

2022 World Short Course Championships

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Following her performances at the 2022 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships, held in Sydney in August, McKeown was named to the roster for the 2022 World Short Course Championships.[1] On the first day of competition, she ranked twelfth in the preliminaries of the 100 metre backstroke, qualifying for the semifinals with her time of 57.11 seconds.[20] Later in the morning, she qualified for the final of the 200 metre individual medley with an overall rank of fourth in the preliminaries with a time of 2:06.07.[21] In the evening session, she started off with a bronze medal-win in the 200 metre individual medley in an Oceanian, Commonwealth, and Australian record time of 2:03.57 before qualifying for the final of the 100 metre backstroke approximately 20 minutes later with a time of 56.35 seconds that ranked her sixth across both semifinal heats.[22][23][24]

On day two, McKeown won the gold medal in the 100 metre backstroke with a personal best time of 55.49 seconds.[25][26] The morning of day three, she ranked tenth in the preliminaries of the 50 metre backstroke with a time of 26.24 seconds and advanced to the semifinals.[27] In the evening semifinals, she placed ninth with a time of 26.09 seconds.[28] Two days later, she swam the backstroke portion of the 4×50 metre medley relay in the preliminaries in a time of 26.42 seconds, helping qualify the relay to the final ranking first in an Oceanian and Australian record time of 1:44.78.[29] When the finals relay placed first in a time of 1:42.35, she won a gold medal for her efforts in the preliminaries.[30]

Day six of six, McKeown started in the morning in the preliminaries of the 200 metre backstroke, where she ranked second in 2:02.32 and advanced to the final.[31] In the final, she was the only one to finish in a time faster than 2:00.00, winning the gold medal with a 1:59.26 that was 0.32 seconds slower than her world record mark from 2020.[32] She concluded the session with a silver medal in the 4×100 metre medley relay, leading-off with a 55.74 for the backstroke portion to help finish in an Oceanian, Commonwealth, and Australian record time of 3:44.92.[33]

2023 World Aquatics Championships

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At the beginning of the 2023 season, McKeown broke the long course 200 metre backstroke world record at the 2023 NSW State Open Championships.[34] With this record, McKeown became the second swimmer to hold the Olympic title, Commonwealth title, Long Course World Championship title, Short Course World Championship title, Long Course world record and Short Course world record in the same event concurrently, following compatriot Grant Hackett in the 1500 metre freestyle.[35]

At the 2023 World Aquatics Championships McKeown swept the 50, 100 and 200 metre backstroke events, breaking the Oceanian record in the 50 metre backstroke and the championship record in the 100 metre backstroke.[36][37][38] McKeown became only the second swimmer to ever win the 50, 100 and 200 metre events of the same stroke during the same championships, after China's Qin Haiyang completed the breaststroke sweep the day prior.[39][40]

2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup

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McKeown was the overall winner of the 2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup after sweeping the backstroke events at all three stops.[41] At the final stop in Budapest, McKeown broke both the 50 metre and 100 metre backstroke world records (breaking her own world record in the latter) and became the first woman to break the long course 50, 100 and 200 metre backstroke world records during their career, and the first woman to hold all three concurrently.[42]

2024 Summer Olympic Games

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McKeown won gold in the 100m backstroke in a time of 57.33,[43] setting a new Olympic record, matching her Oceanian record and becoming the second woman to repeat gold in this event after American Natalie Coughlin. Days later, Mckeown won gold in the 200m backstroke, charging home to out split her nearest rival, American Regan Smith by over seven tenths of a second, setting a new Olympic record of 2.03.73, beating the previous record set by American Missy Franklin at the 2012 London Olympics. Mckeown won the 100m and 200m backstroke events at the Paris Olympics, becoming the first woman in history to win both titles in two consecutive Olympic games and only the second person to ever achieve this, after East Germany's Roland Matthes. McKeown also won silver in the 4 × 100 metre medley relay and bronze in the 200 metre individual medley (after the original third placer Alexandra Walsh disqualified due to improper transition from backstroke to breaststroke) and mixed 4 × 100 metre medley relay.

Results in major championships

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Meet 50 back 100 back 200 back 200 medley 400 medley 4×50 medley 4×100 medley 4×100 mixed medley
PACJ 2016 — 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 17th — —
WC 2017 4th 16th — 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
CG 2018 4th 4th 9th — —
PAC 2018 — 5th 5th —
YOG 2018 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 7th — 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 9th
WC 2019 4th 5th 2nd place, silver medalist(s) — 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
OG 2020 — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
WC 2022 5th DNS 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) — 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
CG 2022 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)
SCW 2022 9th 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s)[a] 2nd place, silver medalist(s) —
WC 2023 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) DQ — 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
OG 2024 — 1st place, gold medalist(s) 1st place, gold medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) — 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
a McKeown swam only in the preliminary heats.

Career best times

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Long course metres (50 m pool)

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As of 11 June 2024
Event Time Meet Location Date Notes
50 m freestyle 26.59 Queensland Championships Brisbane 14 December 2020
NSW Open Championships Sydney 18 March 2021
100 m freestyle 54.29 NSW Open Championships Sydney 18 March 2021
200 m freestyle 1:56.14 2023 Queensland Championships Brisbane 10 December 2023
400 m freestyle 4:06.85 Victorian Open Championships Melbourne 24 February 2024
50 m backstroke 26.86 2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup Budapest 20 October 2023 WR
100 m backstroke 57.33 2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup Budapest 21 October 2023 =CR, =OC
2024 Summer Olympics Paris 30 July 2024 =CR, =OC
200 m backstroke 2:03.14 2023 NSW State Open Championships Sydney 10 March 2023 WR , ACR
50 m breaststroke 32.18 Queensland Championships Brisbane 14 December 2020
100 m breaststroke 1:06.86 Victorian Open Championships Melbourne 17 February 2023
200 m breaststroke 2:24.18 2023 Australian Championships Gold Coast 19 April 2023
50 m butterfly 27.28 Swimming Queensland Prep Meet Brisbane 15 November 2020
100 m butterfly 59.45 Southport Prep Meet Gold Coast 18 November 2023
200 m individual medley 2:06.63 2024 Australian Swimming Trials Brisbane 10 June 2024 CR, OC, ACR
400 m individual medley 4:28.22 2024 Australian Championships Gold Coast 18 April 2024 OC, ACR

Short course metres (25 m pool)

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As of 28 September 2024
Event Time Meet Location Date Notes
200 m freestyle 1:55.84 Australian Championships (25m) Melbourne 27 October 2018
50 m backstroke 25.40 Australian Championships (25m) Adelaide 28 September 2024 OC, NR
100 m backstroke 54.56 Australian Championships (25m) Adelaide 26 September 2024 OC, CR, NR
200 m backstroke 1:58.94 Australian Virtual Championships (25m) Brisbane 28 November 2020 OC, CR, NR
100 m breaststroke 1:08.06 Australian Championships (25m) Melbourne 25 October 2018
50 m butterfly 27.46 Australian Virtual Championships (25m) Brisbane 27 November 2020
100 m individual medley 59.14 Australian Virtual Championships (25m) Brisbane 26 November 2020
200 m individual medley 2:03.57 2022 World Short Course Championships Melbourne 13 December 2022 OC, CR, NR
Legend: WR – World record; OC – Oceanian record; CR – Commonwealth record; NR – Australian record; ACR – Australian All Comers record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

World records

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Long course metres

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No. Event Time Meet Location Date Status Ref
1 100 m backstroke 57.45 2021 Australian Swimming Trials Adelaide, Australia 13 June 2021 Former [44]
2 200 m backstroke 2:03.14 2023 NSW State Open Championships Sydney, Australia 10 March 2023 Current [45]
3 50 m backstroke 26.86 2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup Budapest, Hungary 20 October 2023 Current [46]
4 100 m backstroke (2) 57.33 2023 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup Budapest, Hungary 21 October 2023 Former [47]

Short course metres

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No. Event Time Meet Location Date Status Ref
1 200 m backstroke 1:58.94 Australian Swimming Championships (25m) Brisbane, Australia 28 November 2020 Former [48]
2 100 m backstroke 54.56 Australian Swimming Championships (25m) Adelaide, Australia 26 September 2024 Former [49]

Olympic records

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Long course metres

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No. Event Time Meet Location Date Status Notes Ref
1 100 m backstroke 57.88 h 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan 25 July 2021 Former [50]
2 100 m backstroke (2) 57.47 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan 27 July 2021 Former [50]
3 4x100 m medley relay[a] 3:51.60 2020 Summer Olympics Tokyo, Japan 1 August 2021 Former CR, OC, NR [50]
4 100 m backstroke (3) 57.33 2024 Summer Olympics Paris, France 30 July 2024 Former =CR, =OC, =NR
5 200 m backstroke 2:03.73 2024 Summer Olympics Paris, France 2 August 2024 Current
Legend: WR – World record; OC – Oceanian record; NR – Australian record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

a split 58.01 for backstroke leg; with Chelsea Hodges (breaststroke), Emma McKeon (butterfly), Cate Campbell (freestyle)

Awards and honours

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Personal life

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In August 2020, McKeown's father, Sholto, died after a two-year battle with brain cancer.[58] She has a tattoo on her foot in his memory that says, "I'll always be with you".[59]

McKeown has been dating fellow Australian national team member and 2020 Olympian Brendon Smith since November 2021.Brendon and Kaylee broke up their relationship in August 2024, after the Olympic Games [2]

See also

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Sporting positions
Preceded by FINA Swimming World Cup
Overall female winner
2023 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
Records
Preceded by Women's 50-metre backstroke
world record-holder (long course)
20 October 2023 – present 		Incumbent
Preceded by Women's 100-metre backstroke
world record-holder (long course)
13 June 2021 – 18 June 2024 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Women's 200-metre backstroke
world record-holder (long course)
10 March 2023 – present 		Incumbent
Preceded by Women's 100-metre backstroke
world record-holder (short course)
26 September 2024 – 25 October 2024 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Women's 200-metre backstroke
world record-holder (short course)
28 November 2020 – 2 November 2024 		Succeeded by
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