Karen Phillips Athlete
This article is about the swimmer. For the soap opera character from Coronation Street formerly named Karen Phillips, see Karen McDonald. Title=Karen Phillips;ns=0/Main/;language:wiki=en,locale=enPersonal informationBorn 4 May 1966 Medal record Women's swimming Competitor for 22x20px Australia Olympic Games Silver 1984 Los Angeles 200 m butterfly Karen Anne Phillips (born 4 May 1966), known after marriage as Karen Anne Higgison, was an Australian butterfly and individual medley swimmer of the 1980s, who won the silver medal in the 200 m butterfly at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Raised in Nowra, New South Wales, Phillips was selected to represent Australia in the 200 m butterfly and 400 m individual medley, but was not expected to do well, barely scraping into the final of the 200 m butterfly, and narrowly missing the final of the 400 m individual medley. Although she was left far behind by the United States' Mary T. Meagher, she swum a personal best of 2mins 10.56s to claim the silver medal, although Meagher was 7 metres ahead. Two years later at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, Phillips enjoyed more success, winning silver in the 200 m butterfly. She was the inaugural winner of the Australian Institute of Sport Athlete of the Year in 1983/84.
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| Birth date | May 04, 1966 |
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