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History maker Fox seals 'magical' golden double in Paris
Her sixth Olympic podium is unmatched in the sport. Fox has also become the most successful athlete in Australian Olympic history with her sixth individual medal, surpassing swimmers
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Australian female swimmers at the 2024 Olympics are now faster than Mark Spitz
(Heinz Kluetmeier/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images) Heinz Kluetmeier via Getty Images And 19 years after that, in 2001, Ian Thorpe was 4.24 seconds faster ...
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Ian James Thorpe AM (born 13 October 1982) is an Australian retired 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 .
Jun 21, 2024 · Ian Thorpe is an Australian athlete, who was the most successful swimmer in that country’s history, accumulating five Olympic gold medals and 11 world championship titles between 1998 and 2004. Thorpe began swimming competitively at age eight, and, although he had been uncoordinated in other.
Ian Thorpe entered the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney bearing the weight of tremendous expectations as a locally born swimming world champion in a nation that loves swimming heroes. And he was only 17 years old.
2 days ago · Aussie legend Ian Thorpe admitted he'd never seen anything like it, and didn't even know it was possible to allow nine teams into a final. Australia won bronze in the men's 4x200m relay, ...
3 days ago · Tracey Menzies-Stegbauer recalls what she told Ian Thorpe before he took out gold in the men's 400m freestyle at Athens, two days before he beat Pieter van den Hoogenband, then America's Michael Phelps and fellow Australian Grant Hackett in the 'Race of the Century'.
Find out what went through Ian Thorpe's mind as a 17-year-old at Sydney 2000, his path to coming out as gay, what he thinks of Caeleb Dressel, and plenty more.
Ian Thorpe retired twice, first in 2006 at the age of 24, then in 2012 after he failed to make the Australian team for the London Games, yet those divergent emotions about his chosen sport never go away. At last month’s Olympic trials in Brisbane, he was an expert caller for Channel Nine but could feel familiar tensions on the pool deck.
Ian Thorpe won five Olympic gold medals, the greatest total of any Australian. Thorpe first grabbed world attention when he won the 1998 world 400m freestyle title in Perth, becoming, at 15, the youngest world champion in history.
Swimming legend Ian Thorpe has endorsed Emma McKeon after she made Australian sporting history on day one of the Paris Olympics, becoming the country's most prolific gold medallist. The 30-year ...
Ian Thorpe AM was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2008 as an Athlete Member and elevated to Legend of Australian Sport in 2021 for his contribution to swimming. Ian Thorpe’s achievements in the pool guaranteed him a place among Australia’s sporting greats.
