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Jul 2, 2024 · Shane Gould (born November 23, 1956, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is a former Australian swimmer who won five Olympic medals and set world records in all five freestyle distances (100, 200, 400, 800, and 1,500 meters).
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16 hours ago · The Australian swimmer - Shane Gould made headlines in 1972 during the Munich Olympic Games. She won Olympic medals in 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1,500-meter freestyle swimming distances.
Jun 16, 2024 · Shane Gould (Munich 1972) is the only Australian to win three individual gold medals at the same Olympics. If there’s one swimmer to keep an eye on this week in Indianapolis, it’s backstroker Regan Smith, who is McKeown’s biggest rival.
Jun 13, 2024 · If she can repeat the 200m-400m double she completed in Tokyo, she will surpass* the achievements of every Australian swimmer who has come before her, including Dawn Fraser, Ian Thorpe and Shane Gould, who finished their careers with three individual gold medals.
Jun 11, 2024 · Shane Gould is the only Australian swimmer to achieve the feat, doing so at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. O’Callaghan is more likely to pick up medals in her 100m and 200m freestyle events, which ...
4 days ago · The first world record in the men's 400 metres freestyle in long course (50 metres) swimming was recognised by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in 1908. In the short course (25 metres) swimming events the world's governing body recognizes world records since 3 March 1991.
Jun 12, 2024 · Titmus clocked 1:52.23 in the final, more than half a second under O’Callaghan’s Fukuoka 2023 time of 1:52.85, and now becomes the first Australian woman since Shane Gould in 1972 to concurrently hold the 200m & 400m Freestyle world records.
