Shrone Austin

Who is Shrone Austin?

Shrone Austin is a Seychellois swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and breaststroke events. She swam for the sprint breaststroke events at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, and for the long-distance freestyle at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She is also a six-time medalist at the All-Africa Games.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Austin qualified for the 100 m breaststroke, and swam in the first heat of the event, against seven other competitors including Bolivia's Katerine Moreno, who had been competing at her third Olympics since 1988. Austin finished the race in third place and forty-third overall, with a time of 1:19.02.

For her second Olympics in Beijing, Austin decided to challenge herself in the long-distance freestyle swimming. She swam in the first heat of the 400 m freestyle event, against Hungary's Boglarka Kapas, and Thailand's Natthanan Junkrajang, who forced to pull out from the heats. Austin finished tremendously in second place and forty-first overall, with a time of 4:35.86, nearly twenty seconds behind Kapas, who won in this heat.