Michelle Ford Net Worth

Michelle Ford Net Worth is
$7 Million

Michelle Ford Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Michelle Jan Ford MBE (born 15 July 1962) is an Australian former long-distance freestyle and butterfly swimmer of the 1970s and 1980s, who won a gold medal in the 800 m freestyle at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She was the only non Soviet bloc female swimmer to win an individual gold medal at the boycott-marred games. She also set two world records in her career, and was the first Australian woman to win individual Olympic medals in two distinct specialized strokes.Ford, the third of four children grew up in the seaside Sydney suburb of Sans Souci, familiar with water, as her father Ian, a dentist, had narrowly missed Olympic selection as a yachtsman. After learning to swim at the age of 6, she made national headlines when she swam the 100yd freestyle in 61.5s, at the age of 12, the fastest time ever set by a swimmer at such an age.In January 1976, at the New South Wales Age Championships, at the North Sydney pool, she broke six state and three national records at the age of 13, two of which had previously been held by triple Olympic gold medallist Shane Gould. She proceeded to compete at the Australian Championships, where she won the 200 m butterfly, despite standing only 140 cm, setting another national record in the process. Another strong performance in the 200 m freestyle lead to selection for both events for the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. After a seven week national training camp, she competed in her first Olympic race in the 200 m freestyle, where her competition included the eventual champion, Kornelia Ender of East Germany. She was eliminated in the semifinals of the 200 m freestyle. Her time of 2 m 18.24 in the 200 m butterfly, 2s outside here Australian record, saw her eliminated in the semifinals also.After the Olympics, Ford scaled her training back in order to catch up on her studies at St George Girls High School. On the advice of her coach Dick Caine, she began to concentrate on distance freestyle swimming, and in 1977 set an Australian record in the 400 m freestyle at the NSW Age Championships, before setting another national record at the Australian Championships in the 800 m freestyle, as well as winning the 200 m freestyle. The following year in 1978, at the KB international meet in Brisbane, she broke the 800 m freestyle record of East Germany's Petra Thumer by 0.18s, setting a new time of 8 m 35.04s, lowering her own national record by 10s. She also set another Australian record in the 200 m butterfly. A fortnight later, Ford lowered her record to 8 m 31.30s, but it did not last long. At the 1978 Australian Championships, Tracey Wickham lowered the world record to 8 m 30.53s, and defeated Ford in the 200 m and 400 m events also.At the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Ford swam the 800 m freestyle in 8 m 25.62s, only to find that Wickham had broken the world record in a time of 8 m 24.62s, to relegated her to silver. Wickham again restricted Ford to silver in the 400 m freestyle, while in the 200 m event, 

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