Chelsea Hodges

Chelsea Mae Hodges OAM (born 27 June 2001) is a retired Australian swimmer.^[2] She competed in the women's 100 metre breaststroke at the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Chelsea Hodges
OAM

Personal information
Full name	Chelsea Mae Hodges
Nationality	Australian
Born	(2001-06-27) 27 June 2001 (age 24) Queensland, Australia[1]
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Medal record Women's swimming Representing  Australia Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo 4×100 m medley World Championships (SC) 2022 Melbourne 4×50 m medley 2022 Melbourne 4×100 m medley Commonwealth Games 2022 Birmingham 4×100 m medley 2022 Birmingham 50 m breaststroke 2022 Birmingham 100 m breaststroke Universiade 2019 Naples 50 m breaststroke Youth Olympic Games 2018 Buenos Aires 50 m breaststroke 2018 Buenos Aires 4×100 m medley

Career

At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Hodges was a semi-finalist in the Women's 100 metre breaststroke swimming the ninth fastest time (1:06.60) and just missing the final by 0.01 second.^[4]

Hodges later swam the breaststroke leg of the Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay for the gold medal winning Australian team. Hodges was up against American 100m breaststroke gold medalist Lydia Jacoby and despite being 1.65 seconds slower than Jacoby in the individual event Hodges posted a time of 1:05.57 in the final of the relay which was only 0.54 seconds slower than the American. Hodges' breaststroke leg kept the Australians within striking distance of the Americans and with Emma McKeon narrowing the gap Cate Campbell was able to touch the wall first ahead of American Abbey Weitzeil to win the gold medal for Australia.^[5]

In the 2022 Australia Day Honours, Hodges was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.^[6]

World records

Short course metres

No.	Event	Time	Meet	Location	Date	Status	Ref
1	4x50 m medley relay[a]	1:42.35	2022 World Championships (25 m)	Melbourne, Australia	17 December 2022	Current	[7]

^a split 29.11 (breaststroke leg); with Mollie O'Callaghan (backstroke leg), Emma McKeon (butterfly leg), Madison Wilson (freestyle leg)

Olympic records

Long course metres

No.	Event	Time		Meet	Location	Date	Status	Notes	Ref
1	4x100 m medley relay[a]	3:51.60		2020 Summer Olympics	Tokyo, Japan	1 August 2021	Former	OC, NR	[8]

Legend: WR – World record; OC – Oceanian record; NR – Australian record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial

^a split 1:05.57 for breaststroke leg; with Kaylee McKeown (backstroke leg), Emma McKeon (butterfly), Cate Campbell (freestyle)