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Rebecca "Bec" Marie Rippon (born 26 December 1978) is an Australian former water polo player. She represented Australia as a member of the Australia women's national water polo team at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won a bronze medal.
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| Full name | Rebecca Marie Rippon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Beccy, Mike, 4[citation needed] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 December 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Water polo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Cronulla Water Polo Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Olympic finals | 2004 Summer, 2008 Summer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rippon is from the Sydney area[1] of Chester Hill, New South Wales.[2] Her nicknames include Beccy, Mike, and 4. She is 167 centimetres (66 in) tall and weighs 72 kilograms (159 lb).[3] She has a sister, Melissa Rippon, who also plays water polo for Australia's national water polo team.[1] She has a step-sister Kate Gynther, who also has represented Australia in water polo.[4] Her mother died in 2000 as a result of breast cancer.[5]
Rippon's home competition pool is Sutherland Leisure Centre.[6]
Club
Rippon played club water polo for Cronulla Water Polo Club in the National Water Polo League, until her 2012 retirement from the sport.[6] She was a member of the team in 2011.[7] Her team tried to encourage her to change her mind into the second month of the season.[8] The campaign to get her to return was led by her Serbian born coach Predrag Mihailovic.[9] She has also played for Balmain Water Polo Club in 2008 and 2010 in the National Water Polo League.[3][10][11]
In 2007, she played club water polo in Greece for Vouliagmeni Nautical Club and for the Balmain Tigers in the National Water Polo League.[12]
National team
Rippon made 265 appearances for the Australian national team.[1] She won gold medals at a member of the national team at the 2006 World Cup and 2012 Pan Pacific. She won a silver medal at the 2007 World Championships.[1] She was named to the team that competed in 2008 at the FINA world league preliminary round in Tianjin, China.[11] In a 2008 Asia-Oceania qualifier against China for the World League Super Finals, she played in the 11–9 win that went to a penalty shoot out. In the match, she scored a goal for Australia.[13] In 2009, she was a member of a team that compete at the FINA World Championships. She played in the semi-finals game against New Zealand that Australia won 14–4. In the game, she scored three goals.[14] After being cut from the national team competing at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she announced her retirement from the sport.[6] In April 2011, she attended a training camp at the Australian Institute of Sport where the coach was "selecting a team for the major championships over winter."[15] In July 2011, she was a member of the Australian Stingers that competed in the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai as a field player.[16] In preparation for this tournament, she attended a team training camp in Perth, Western Australia.[17] She competed in the Pan Pacific Championships in January 2012 for the Australian Stingers.[4]
Olympics
Rippon competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics on the Australia women's national water polo team.[1][3] She scored a goal late in the Bronze medal match against Hungary that helped her team win.[1] She was not chosen to compete at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.[1][2][18][19] She was one of the last two players, alongside Lea Barta, before the final team for London was announced.[18] Prior to Rebecca Rippon being cut from the 2012 Olympic squad, .[1][2][18][19] sisters Kate Gynther, Melissa Rippon and Rebecca Rippon had hoped to become the first set of Australian siblings to all compete at three consecutive Olympic Games.[20][21]
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