Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on 16 January 2004, Waldmann is identified by the Australian Olympic Committee as a Gold Coast-based Australian artistic swimmer. The AOC profile lists Hillcrest Christian College as her high school and Gold Coast Mermaid as both her junior and senior club.
The AOC describes a demanding pathway: after strong performances as a junior, Waldmann was selected for the Australian national team, which trains at Artistic Swimming Australia’s National Centre of Excellence in Perth. Her preparation was reported as up to four hours per day, six or seven days a week, illustrating the workload behind elite artistic swimming without implying that every phase of that training took place at Gold Coast Mermaids.
Her senior international record includes the 2022 FINA World Championships in Budapest, where she and Georgia Courage-Gardiner competed in the technical duet and finished 26th with 69.6770 points. She also competed in team technical at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, and was part of Australia’s top-10 team at the 2024 World Championships in Doha, as recorded by the AOC.
At the World Aquatics World Cup in Beijing in April 2024, Waldmann was part of the Australian team that won silver in team technical and team free and bronze in team acrobat. World Aquatics records the team-acrobatic bronze at 196.5966 points and also lists her 2024 Super Final team technical and team free performances.
Waldmann made her Olympic debut at Paris 2024. In the open team competition, Australia placed ninth overall on 728.4358 points. The AOC reports scores of 235.9071 for the technical routine, 280.5521 for the free routine and 211.9766 for the acrobatic routine. Olympedia independently records the same ninth-place team result.
Beyond school, club and national-team training, the opened authoritative sources do not document Waldmann’s university studies, post-school career, hobbies or a current club/status update. Those areas are therefore left unclaimed rather than inferred from older biographies.
Career highlights
- Paris 2024 Olympian in Australia's open team artistic-swimming event; Australia finished ninth overall on 728.4358 points.
- Part of Australia's top-10 team at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha.
- Won team technical silver, team free silver and team acrobat bronze at the April 2024 World Aquatics World Cup in Beijing.
- Competed in team technical at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
- Placed 26th in the technical duet with Georgia Courage-Gardiner at the 2022 FINA World Championships in Budapest, scoring 69.6770.
- Selected for Australia's national team after strong junior performances and trained through Artistic Swimming Australia's National Centre of Excellence in Perth.
- Listed by the Australian Olympic Committee with Gold Coast Mermaid as both junior and senior club.
Selected competition results
| Year | Event | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Paris Olympic Games — Artistic Swimming, Open Team | 9th place for Australia; 728.4358 points overall |
Beyond the pool
The AOC identifies Hillcrest Christian College as Waldmann's high school. No opened authoritative source reliably documents further studies, employment, hobbies or current status, so these details are not supplied.
Sources & further reading
- 1Milena Waldmann — Australian Olympic Committee Olympians profile
- 2Milena Waldmann — Olympedia athlete profile
- 3Milena WALDMANN — World Aquatics athlete results/profile
- 4Gold Coast Mermaids to make a splash in overseas synchronised swimming competitions — Gold Coast Bulletin
The Australian Olympic Committee is the primary source and lists Gold Coast Mermaid for both junior and senior club, hometown Gold Coast, Hillcrest Christian College, Paris 2024 and the international narrative. Olympedia independently verifies the 16 January 2004 Tashkent birth data and ninth-place Paris 2024 team result. World Aquatics corroborates the 2022 and 2024 competition record, including the 2024 team-acrobat bronze. The opened Gold Coast Bulletin article establishes the club's Gold Coast training context but does not name Waldmann, so it is not used to assign her a specific 2017 result or date of membership. A subscription-gated Australian article appeared in search results but could not be opened for full verification and is not relied upon. No reserve/alternate Olympic selection is indicated in the opened sources; Paris 2024 is treated as a competed Olympic edition, and Tokyo 2020 is not included.