There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title.

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Silver in the 200 m IM (2:10. Day three of the championships saw Coventry break another championship record in qualifying fastest for the final of the 200 m backstroke. In 2008 Coventry broke her first world record in the 200 m backstroke at the Missouri Grand Prix.

She was subsequently described by Paul Chingoka head of the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee as "our national treasure". Kirsty Leigh Coventry (born 16 September 1983 in Harare Zimbabwe) is a Zimbabwean swimmer and former world record holder. She attended and swam competitively for Auburn University in Alabama in the United States.