Elizabeth Coster

Elizabeth Coster
Personal information
Full name Elizabeth Mary Coster
National team  New Zealand
Born (1982-12-11) 11 December 1982
Auckland, New Zealand
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Backstroke, butterfly
Club North Shore Swim Club
Coach Thomas Ansorg

Elizabeth Mary Coster (born 11 December 1982) is a New Zealand former swimmer, who specializes in backstroke and butterfly events.[1] She helped out the New Zealand team to pull off a fourth-place effort and broke a New Zealand record of 4:06.30 in the medley relay at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia.[2]

Coster made her first New Zealand team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she competed in the 100 m butterfly. Swimming in heat two, she edged out Singapore's Joscelin Yeo to take a third spot by two tenths of a second (0.20), but shared a twenty-third place tie with Sweden's Johanna Sjöberg in 1:00.61.[3][4] Coster also teamed up with Hannah McLean, Alison Fitch, and Annabelle Carey in the 4 × 100 m medley relay. She swam a butterfly leg in heat one with a split of 1:00.38, but the New Zealand team settled for sixth place and thirteenth overall in a final time of 4:10.37.[5][6]

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Coster shortened her program, swimming only in the 100 m backstroke. She cleared a FINA A-standard entry time of 1:00.93 from the Olympic trials in Auckland.[7][8] She posted a time of 1:00.66 to take a fifteenth seed in the top 16 places from the evening's preliminary heats.[9][10] Followed by the next morning's session, Coster fell short in her bid for the final, as she finished her semifinal run with a slowest time of 1:01.45.[11][12]

References

  1. "Elizabeth Coster". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  2. "Women's 4×100m Medley Relay Final". Melbourne 2006. BBC Sport. 21 March 2006. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  3. "Women's 100m Butterfly Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  4. Thomas, Stephen (14 August 2004). "Women’s 100 Butterfly Prelims: Petria Thomas Fastest Through to Semis – One Full Second Ahead of Inky". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  5. "Women's 4×100m Medley Heat 1". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 14 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  6. Thomas, Stephen (20 August 2004). "Women's 400 Medley Relay, Prelims Day 7: Aussies Qualify Ahead of USA in Two-Way Battle for Gold". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
  7. "Coster, Ingram and Herring star at Olympic Trials". Sportzhub. 27 March 2008. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  8. "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 100m Backstroke" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 62. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  9. "Women's 100m Backstroke – Heat 7". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  10. Lohn, John (10 August 2008). "Olympics, Swimming: Olympic Record Times Three, Kirsty Coventry Leads Women's 100 Back Prelims". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  11. "Women's 100m Backstroke – Semifinal 2". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  12. Gilhooly, Daniel (11 August 2008). "Swimming: Coster misses out on backstroke final". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 29 November 2012.

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