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| Full name | Jessica L. Amey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1976-11-15) November 15, 1976 (age 48) Montreal, Quebec | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly, freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Calgary Stanford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jessica L. Amey (born November 15, 1976) is a former competitive butterfly swimmer from Canada, who competed for her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she finished in 25th position in the 100-metre butterfly, after having won the silver medal in the 4×100-metre medley relay one year earlier at the 1995 FINA Short Course World Championships, alongside Julie Howard, Lisa Flood and Shannon Shakespeare.
After her career on the Canadian national team, Amey attended Stanford University, where she swam for the Stanford Cardinal swimming and diving team in NCAA and Pacific-10 Conference competition. After completing her undergraduate degree at Stanford, she graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. She was a lawyer at McCarthy Tetrault LLP in Toronto, Ontario and currently works as a Planning Law solicitor for the City of Toronto.
References
- "Sports Reference profile". Sports Reference. 2014. Archived from the original on December 6, 2013. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
- HistoFINA, Volumes IIIa (2008 ed) Archived 2015-04-27 at the Wayback Machine and IIIb (2008 ed) Archived 2015-07-09 at the Wayback Machine. ("HistoFINA" is FINA's self-history. Volume III is about the Short Course Worlds; part "a" contains men's statistics, part "b" women's statistics.
- "Jessica Amey". Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2007-03-22.
External links
- Jessica Amey at World Aquatics
- Jessica Amey at SwimRankings.net
- Jessica Amey at Olympics.com
- Jessica Amey at Team Canada
- Jessica Amey at Olympedia
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