Amie Thompson

Fast Facts

Sport: Artistic Swimming
Event: Team and Duet
Olympic History: Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020
Year Born: 1996
Place Born: England

Amie Thompson had an unorthodox start to her career in artistic swimming, in that it wasn’t initially her sport of choice. She was a swimmer and a gymnast but says she lost interest in lap swimming and “wasn’t very good” at gymnastics.

Over a decade later, she has represented Australia twice at the Olympic Games as an artistic swimmer.

In 2008 the then 12-year old took on some advice from her school swim teacher, which led her to artistic swimming.

Amie was selected as a reserve for the 2011 FINA World Championships Team. This lit a fire in the youngster, and from there, she finished high school and moved from Sydney to Perth to pursue her Olympic dream.

She was part of the successful 2015 World Championships team that qualified Australia for Rio 2016 after beating trans-Tasman rivals, New Zealand. Making her Olympic debut at Rio 2016, she helped Australia to eighth overall with 75.4333 in the free routine and 74.0667 in the technical.

Amie made her second Olympic appearance at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Games. She competed in two events, the duet and the team. She paired up with Emily Rogers for the duet and secured 20th place overall with a score of 151.9.

In the team's discipline, Amie helped the Aussie squad finish 9th overall - gaining a 75.6 technical score of 75.6 and 77.4 free score for a total of 153 points.