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Swimming is Australia's most prolific Olympic sport, having been responsible for 78 of Australia's 185 Olympic gold medals. In addition, a list of the top 100 Australian Olympians of all time, compiled by the Australian Olympic Committee, named 35 swimmers in the top 100, more than any other sport. Swimmers have been given the honour of ...
Swimming Australia annually recognizes the Australian Swimmer of the Year. The Australian Swim Team has finished first in the gold medal rankings once at the Olympic Games in 1956 in Melbourne and twice at the Long Course World Championships in 2001 and 2023, both held in Fukuoka, Japan.
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 .
Kaylee Rochelle McKeown OAM (/ m ə ˈ k j uː ə n / mə-KEW-ən; born 12 July 2001) is an Australian swimmer and quintuple Olympic gold medalist. She is the reigning Olympic champion in the 100 and 200 metres backstroke.
Ian James Thorpe AM (born 13 October 1982) is an Australian retired [1] swimmer who specialised in freestyle, but also competed in backstroke and the individual medley.He has won five Olympic gold medals, the second most won by any Australian after fellow swimmer Emma McKeon.
In every single swimming event, from the men’s 50-meter free to the women’s 400-meter IM, humans have shaved second after second off world-best times throughout and since the 20th century. The ...
List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women) List of individual gold medalists in swimming at the Olympics and World Aquatics Championships (men) 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 ...
Australia: 48.56 2008 Beijing details: Alain Bernard France: 47.21 Eamon Sullivan Australia: 47.32 set WR in semifinal: Jason Lezak United States César Cielo Brazil: 47.67 2012 London details: Nathan Adrian United States: 47.52 James Magnussen Australia: 47.53 Brent Hayden Canada: 47.80 2016 Rio de Janeiro details: Kyle Chalmers Australia: 47. ...