Anna Windsor

Dr Anna Windsor

Personal information
Full name	Dr Anna Margaret Windsor
National team	Australia
Born	(1976-05-17) 17 May 1976 Sydney, New South Wales
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
College team	Nebraska University
Medal record Women's swimming Representing Australia World Championships (LC) 1998 Perth 4×200 m freestyle World Championships (SC) 1993 Mallorca 4×200 m freestyle 1995 Rio 4×100 m freestyle 1995 Rio 4×200 m freestyle Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 1993 Kobe 4×100 m freestyle 1993 Kobe 4×200 m freestyle 1995 Atlanta 4×100 m freestyle 1995 Atlanta 4×200 m freestyle 1995 Atlanta 200 m medley Commonwealth Games 1994 Victoria 4×200 m freestyle 1998 Kuala Lumpur 4×200 m freestyle

Dr Anna Margaret Windsor (born 17 May 1976) is an Australian former competitive swimmer who won four medals in freestyle relays at the world championships in 1993, 1995 and 1998.^[1] She also competed at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics and finished sixth in the 4×100-metre freestyle relay in 1996.^[2]

When Anna was eight months old her family moved to Orange. In her primary school days at Orange Public School, Anna showed enormous potential in a number of sports and represented the Western Region in cross country running, athletics, netball and swimming. Her sporting talents continued to flourish at Kinross Wolaroi School where she competed at State level in netball, swimming and athletics and at the age of 10 she came under the guidance of Orange Association Swimming Club head coach Joe Wilkins.

Two years later her coaching was taken over by Robyn James who guided her for the next few years until the cool Orange climate forced her to the Central Coast in 1992. This enabled her to utilise a longer training season. The move to the Central Coast also forced Anna to withdraw from the State Netball talent squad due to her heavy training program. This decision was to prove a wise one with Anna gaining an Australian Institute of Sport Scholarship in 1993.

In 1993 Anna took out six gold and three silver medals in the Country Championships, one gold one silver and one bronze in the State Championships and two silver in the Nationals. This was to gain her selection in the Australian team for the Pan Pacific Games in Kobe, Japan where she won two silver medals.

Anna travelled to Europe and won a bronze medal in an international meet in France and later in the year she represented Australia at the World Short Course Championships in Majorca, Spain. She again won two silver medals.

Nineteen ninety-four saw Anna again start with the Country Championships where she took out six gold and four silver medals and in the State titles she won gold medals in the 50m, 100m and 200 m freestyle and silver in the 200m individually medley.

The Nationals saw Anna win Silver in the 200m individual medley and bronze in the 200m freestyle. This was followed by competition in Spain, France and Monte Carlo leading up to the Commonwealth Games in Canada.

At the Commonwealth Games Anna led the Australian team to take out gold in the 4x200m freestyle. She then returned to Rome for the World Championships and later in the year was back in Europe for the World Cup Series, where she won a gold medal in the 100m individual medley, along with four silver and four bronze medals.

In 1996 Anna represented Australia in the relay at the Olympic Games in Atlanta and again at the 2000 Sydney Olympics in the individual medley.

Anna was a freestyle and individual medley standout Anna Windsor competed for Nebraska University during the 1997 and 1998 seasons. A two-time NCAA finalist in the 200-yard freestyle, Windsor placed seventh in the event in 1997. She also swam on NU's second-place 800-yard freestyle relay at the 1998 NCAA Championships. She is a nine-time All-American.^[3]

She was born in Sydney, but her family moved to Orange, New South Wales when she was eight months old. After the 2000 Olympics, she retired from swimming to focus on studies. She received a university degree in medicine and became a Doctor in 2004.^[4]

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