Martina Moravcová should not be confused with Martina Moravčíková.
| Martina Moravcová | |
| Nicknames: | The Slovak Fish[1] |
| Club: | ŠKP Kúpele Piešťany (Slovakia) Dallas Mustangs (USA) |
| Collegeteam: | SMU Mustangs |
| Birth Date: | 16 January 1976 |
| Birth Place: | Piešťany, Czechoslovakia |
| Height: | 1.72m (05.64feet) |
| Weight: | 600NaN0 |
Martina Moravcová (born 16 January 1976) is a Slovak medley, butterfly, and freestyle swimmer. She made her international swimming debut in 1991 for Czechoslovakia, and has gone on to compete in five consecutive Summer Olympics (1992–2008). She is a two-time Olympic silver medalist, both achieved at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. In the 100-meter butterfly, she finished second to Inge de Bruijn, and in the 200-meter freestyle, she finished eight one-hundredths of a second to home favorite Susie O'Neill.
Martina Moravcová was born in 1976 in Piešťany. As a child, she liked to go to the swimming pool and swim in Váh river and when she became a young girl, participated in yachting on Sĺňava Lake.[1] In the 1990s she moved to Dallas, Texas, where she started attending Southern Methodist University.
In 1999, she was named the NCAA's Women's Swimmer of the Year[2] While at SMU, she won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's top female swimmer in 1999.[3] [4] In 2002 and 2004, she was the top women's winner on FINA's World Cup series. Her 105 gold medals in this competition ranks her second all-time, behind Katinka Hosszú.[5]
In 2014 she became a coach of a Slovak Swimming Camp at which she helped 700 children to achieve their goals.[6]
Currently she is an assistant coach to Steve Collins at the Southern Methodist University[7] and is a mother to two children.[6]