Natasha Moodie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Jamaican swimmer, Olympic athlete
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Place of Birth: Kingston, Surrey County, Jamaica
About Natasha Moodie
- Natasha Moodie (born 8 October 1990) is a Jamaican competitive swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.
- She was a three-time national record holder and NCAA All-American champion, and a member of the Jamaican team at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
- While studying kinesiology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Moodie trained and swam for the Michigan Wolverines team under head coach Jim Richardson.
- She is a member of the award-winning Team Rogers in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Moodie competed for Jamaica in the women's 50 m freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
- Four months before the Games, she placed first at the Ohio State University's Toyota Grand Prix meet in Columbus, Ohio with an Olympic B-standard time of 26.61 seconds.
- Moodie swam a lifetime best of 25.95 seconds to overhaul the 26-second barrier and slice her own Jamaican record by 0.14 of a second, but failed to advance past the prelims, finishing fifth in heat eight and thirty-seventh overall.At the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome, Italy, Moodie matched her Olympic feat and own Jamaican record of 25.95 in the 50 m freestyle, and attained her personal best of 57.71 in the 100 m freestyle.
- Her performances in both of her swimming events were not sufficient to put her through to the semifinals.
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