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Ian Thorpe, with 9 medals is equal with Leisel Jones for second-most Olympic medals by an Australian. Stephanie Rice, winner of three gold medals at the 2008 Olympics, including the medley double. Grant Hackett, winner of the 1500 m freestyle in 2000 and 2004, captained Australia's swimming team at the 2008 Olympics. Leisel Jones has won nine ...
In total, Thorpe has won eleven World Championship gold medals; this is the fifth-highest number of gold medals won by any male swimmer. [7] Thorpe was the first person to have been named Swimming World Swimmer of the Year four times, [8] [9] and was the Australian Swimmer of the Year from 1999 to 2003.
List of individual gold medalists in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships (women) List of gold medalist relay teams in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships; European Aquatics Championships – Multiple medalists in swimming
Gold Silver Bronze 1988 Seoul details: Matt Biondi United States: 22.14 WR: Tom Jager United States: 22.36 Gennadiy Prigoda Soviet Union: 22.71 1992 Barcelona details: Alexander Popov Unified Team: 21.91 OR: Matt Biondi United States: 22.09 Tom Jager United States: 22.30 1996 Atlanta details: Alexander Popov Russia: 22.13 Gary Hall Jr. United ...
Michael George Klim, OAM (born 13 August 1977) is an Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and former world record-holder of the 1990s and 2000s. He is known as the creator of straight arm freestyle.
Pages in category "Olympic swimmers for Australia" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 444 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 2008, at the Australian Swimming Championships, he won gold medals four events:the 50-metre freestyle, 100-metre freestyle, 100-metre backstroke and 100-metre butterfly. At those same games, he won two silver medals in the 200-metre individual medley and 400-metre freestyle events. [ 15 ]
Australia was very successful in the swimming venue at the 2000 Olympics. They won 5 Gold, 9 Silver, and 4 Bronze medals. The biggest rivalry, both in the press and in the pool, was between the United States and Australia relay teams.