Everyone at home is so supportive. People recognise me, say how proud they are of me. It's awesome to hear, it's amazing to know I can touch so many people in a positive way.

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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.