Kiah Melverton

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Kiah Melverton
Personal information
Nationality Australian
Born (1996-11-05) 5 November 1996 (age 27)
Southport, Queensland
Height 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Weight 62 kg (137 lb)[1]
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle
Club St Peters Western
Coach Dean Boxall

Kiah Melverton (born 5 November 1996) is an Australian swimmer.

2015 season

She won double bronze at the 2015 Summer Universiade in the 800 metres and 1500 metres.[2]

2016 season

At the 2016 Australian Swimming Championships, Melverton won bronze in the 400 metre freestyle.

In November 2016, Melverton competed in the 2016 Australian Short Course Swimming Championships which acted as selection trials for the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) held in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.[3] At these championships, she earned silver in the 400 metre freestyle and gold in the 800 metre freestyle,[4] earning a national championship and her Australian senior team debut.[citation needed]

Competing at the 2016 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m), Melverton won bronze in the 800 metre freestyle.[5] In earning the bronze, she swam a personal best time of 8:16.51.[6]

Open water swimming

Melverton is also an accomplished open water swimmer.

In October 2016, she competed in the Burleigh Ocean Swim, taking out the women's 1k and 2k events.[7]

At the 2017 Australian Open Water Swimming Championships held in Adelaide, South Australia, Melverton took gold in the women's 5k event, earning nomination for selection for the 17th FINA World Aquatics Championships to be held in Budapest, Hungary in July 2017.[8]

World records

Long course metres

No. Event Time Meet Location Date Status Ref
1 4x200 m freestyle relay[a] 7:39.29 2022 Commonwealth Games Birmingham, United Kingdom 31 July 2022 Current [9]

a split 1:55.40 (2nd leg); with Madison Wilson (1st leg), Mollie O'Callaghan (3rd leg), Ariarne Titmus (4th leg)

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