Career
Brown gained national exposure in March 1994 when, at 16 years of age, she broke Anita Nall"s 200 metre breaststroke world record by 0.59 seconds in Brisbane. In the aftermath of that swim, she was feted as Australia’s newest teen swimming sensation. However, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada she loss out to Samantha Riley in both the 100 and 200 metre breaststroke events.
However, the chance to swim at a home Olympic Games was too good an opportunity pass up.
So, Brown made a pact with her then fiancé, now husband, medley swimmer Zane King that they would put everything into making the team for Sydney. Foreign Brown, this meant moving to Melbourne to link up with her former coach, Michael Piper leaving the Australian Institute of Sport-based King behind.
In May 2000, she secured her place in the Olympic squad with a 2:28.98-minute second place in the 200 metre breakststroke trail final. At the Olympics itself she failed to make to the final, finishing 7th in her semi-final and 14th overall in a time of 2:29.90 ministers
