{{Short description|Australian swimmer (born 1985)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2015}} {{Infobox swimmer | name = Jessica Abbott | image = | image_size = | caption = | fullname = Jessica Abbott | nicknames = | nationality = Australian | strokes = freestyle | club = | coach = | collegeteam = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1985|07|22|df=yes}}<ref name="M2002">{{cite web|title=Profile of Jessica Abbott|url=http://m2002.thecgf.com/results/default.asp?ath=2533|publisher=Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games|accessdate=16 January 2014|archive-date=16 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116122204/http://m2002.thecgf.com/results/default.asp?ath=2533|url-status=dead}}</ref> | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | height = {{convert|1.67|m|ftin|abbr=on}}<ref name="M2002"/> | weight = {{convert|53|kg|lb|abbr=on|sigfig=3}}<ref name="M2002"/> | medaltemplates = {{MedalCompetition|Commonwealth Games}} {{MedalBronze|2002 Manchester|400 m medley}} {{MedalCompetition|Oceania Championships}} {{MedalGold|2000 Christchurch|4×100 m freestyle}} {{MedalBronze|2000 Christchurch|50 m backstroke}} | show-medals = | updated = 16 January 2014 }}
'''Jessica Abbott''' (born 22 July 1985) is an Australian swimmer.
==Career== Abbott first competed for Australia at the 2000 Oceania Swimming Championships in Christchurch where she won gold in the 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay alongside Melinda Geraghty, Michelle Engelsman and Joy Symons and won bronze in the 50 metre backstroke event.
At the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, Abbott won bronze in the 400 metre individual medley in 4:47.11.<ref>{{cite web|title=Results of the women's 400 metre individual medley at the 2002 Commonwealth Games|url=http://m2002.thecgf.com/results/default.asp?ID=SW_400IM_W&content=SW_400IM_W_ps_F&type=event&title=Phase%5EStatus|publisher=Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games|date=4 August 2002|accessdate=16 January 2014|archive-date=16 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116122207/http://m2002.thecgf.com/results/default.asp?ID=SW_400IM_W&content=SW_400IM_W_ps_F&type=event&title=Phase%5EStatus|url-status=dead}}</ref> and finished 6th 200 metre individual medley in 2:17.00.<ref>{{cite web|title=Results of the women's 200 metre individual medley at the 2002 Commonwealth Games|url=http://m2002.thecgf.com/results/default.asp?ID=SW_200IM_W&content=SW_200IM_W_ps_F&type=event&title=Phase%5EStatus|publisher=Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games|date=30 July 2002|accessdate=16 January 2014|archive-date=16 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116122241/http://m2002.thecgf.com/results/default.asp?ID=SW_200IM_W&content=SW_200IM_W_ps_F&type=event&title=Phase%5EStatus|url-status=dead}}</ref>
She competed in the 2002 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in Yokohama, Japan in the 200 metre butterfly and made the finals both the 200 and 400 metre individual medleys.
At the 2003 World Championships in Barcelona, Abbott finished 21st in the 400 metre individual medley in 4:52.72.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Results of the women's 400 metre individual medley heats at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships|url=http://www.omegatiming.com/File/Download?id=000103050063000000FFFFFFFFFFFF01|page=1|publisher=Omega|date=27 July 2003|accessdate=16 January 2014}}</ref>
At the 2003 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, both Jessica and her sister Chloe Abbott represented Australia in swimming simultaneously – the first sisters to do so since Karen and Narelle Moras at the 1972 Munich Olympics.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://secure.ausport.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/268877/eswimmer_14_July_2003.pdf |title=World Champ Sister Act as Australian Swimming takes stepping stone to Athens |last1=Hanson |first1=Ian |date=July 2004 |website=swimming.org.au |publisher=Australian_Swimming |accessdate=2014-09-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110319100959/https://secure.ausport.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/268877/eswimmer_14_July_2003.pdf |archivedate=19 March 2011 }}</ref>
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