Elka Graham
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| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's Swimming | |||
Competitor for  Australia |
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| Olympic Games | |||
| Silver | Sydney 2000 | 4x200 m freestyle relay | |
| World Championsips (SC) | |||
| Silver | 2002 Moscow | 4x100m Freestyle | |
| Bronze | 2002 Moscow | 4x100m Medley | |
Elka Graham (born October 20, 1981 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian swimmer who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics. Graham specialised in the 200m and 400m freestyle events, also swimming the 800m freestyle. She represented Australia at numerous international meets, including the Pan Pacific Championships, World Swimming Championships at Fukuoka in 2001 and Barcelona in 2003 - where she overcame health scares in to compete - and the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester.
She appeared on the ABC-TV program The Glass House in 2006 where she delighted the audience, taunting and teasing series regular Dave Hughes. She was a contestant on Dancing With The Stars in the seventh season but was the third celebrity to be eliminated.
She retired in May 2006 and is now involved in the media (notably TV presenting and writing for newspapers and magazines), modelling and corporate speaking.
[edit] External links
- Swimming Australia profile for Elka Graham
- Elka Graham at the Internet Movie Database
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