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Matt Abood

Athlete Biography

30-year-old Matt Abood will make his long awaited Olympic debut at the Rio Games, after claiming

a 4x100m freestyle relay spot and an individual 50m freestyle swim.

The Sydney-born swimmer faced particular heartbreak in 2012 when he missed the London Team

by 0.02 seconds after he 倀茂nished third in the 50 freestyle. In 2010, at trials for the Commonwealth

Games, he again missed a berth in both the 4x100 freestyle relay team and the 50 freestyle by a

fraction of a second.

It was almost heartbreak again at the 2014 Commonwealth Games trials when Abood dead-heated

for third with James Magnussen. The 2013 World Champion Magnussen went on to win the swim-

o倀ࠃ for the berth and Abood was left out of the squad. His change of fortune came at the expense

of Eamon Sullivan, who had won the 50m freestyle 倀茂nal. Sullivan was forced to withdraw because

of shoulder injury and Abood came in as his replacement for his 倀茂rst Commonwealth Games.

Mid-way through 2015 Abood moved from Sydney to Canberra to train with high performance

swim coach Shannon Rollason. With less commuting to training and more time for rest, Abood has

seen plenty of improvement in his performance.

At the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, Russia, he 倀茂nished 11th in the 50m freestyle. He then

went on to 倀茂nish 倀茂fth in the 100m freestyle at this year’s trials in Adelaide where he logged his

fastest e倀ࠃort in three years (48.89) to secure his spot in the 4x100m freestyle relay and a Games

debut.

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Fast Facts

Sport Swimming Status Selected

Event/s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Men, 50m

Freestyle Men

Nickname Boody

Height 197 Weight 92

Age 30 Born Sydney, NSW, Australia

Lives Sydney, NSW, Australia

Olympic Information

Rio 2016 will be Olympic debut

Recent Performances

5th (50m freestyle) - 2016 Santa Clara Grand Prix (Santa Clara, USA)

2nd (50m freestyle), 5th (100m freestyle) – 2016 Australian Swimming Championships

(Adelaide, Australia)

1st (50m freestyle) – 2016 ACT Championships (Canberra, Australia)

11th (50m freestyle) – 2015 World Championships (Kazan, Russia)

10th (100m freestyle)– 2015 Australian Short Course Championships (Sydney, Australia)

Career Highlights

Winning gold in the 4x100m freestyle relay at the 2011 World Championships

Education

Primary Pottsville Primary School (NSW, Australia)

Secondary Kingscli倀ࠃ High School (NSW, Australia)

Tertiary Graduate Certi倀茂cate in Commerce - Sydney University (2011 - current)

Training

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Coach Shannon Rollason (2015 - current)

Primary Training Base Canberra, Australia

Q&A

Favourite food Plums

Favourite holiday destination Cinque Terre, Italy

Favourite music Passion Pit

Dream car Ferrari 458

Personal Motto Do unto others as you would have done to yourself

Star Sign Cancer

I would spend my last $10 on A nice fruit juice

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Basketball

Jessica Ashwood

Athlete Biography

Jessica Ashwood secured her place on a second Olympic team with outstanding swims in both the

400m and 800m freestyle events at the selection trials in Adelaide. Ashwood defeated teenager

Tamsin Cook in both events, to win the 400m in 4:03.71 just outside her Australian record. Her big

800m win in 8:18.42, was 0.01 outside her Australian record - when fourth at the 2015 World

Championships.

Ashwood kicked o倀ࠃ her Olympic journey when she won two silver medals (400m and 800m

freestyle) and two bronze medals (4x100m and 4x200m freestyle) at the 2009 Australian Youth

Olympic Festival.

In 2012 she made her Olympic debut in London, 倀茂nishing 7th in her 800m freestyle heat and 20th

overall. Her breakthrough meet was the 2015 World Championships where she placed third in the

400m freestyle setting a new Australian record of 4:03.34. She set another Australian record in the

1500m (15:52.17) and placed fourth in the 800m freestyle, with her third personal best time for the

competition.

At the Santa Clara Grand Prix in July this year in the US she won the 800m freestyle and set a new

national mark of 8:18.14, improving on her own time.

When Ashwood was in her early teens she discovered she has severe scoliosis, with the muscle

development in her back now following the S-bend of her spine. She has physiotherapy sessions

twice a week to put her back into alignment after training. She’s currently studying a Bachelor of

Criminology and Criminal Justice with a Bachelor of Psychological Science at Gri倀ऄth University,

inspired by both her parents who are police o倀ऄcers.


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Event/s 400m Freestyle Women, 800m

Freestyle Women

Nickname Jess


Age 23 Born Sydney, NSW, Australia


Olympic Information

2012 London - 20th (800m Freestyle)

Recent Performances

1st (800m freestyle and 400m freestyle) - 2016 Brisbane Grand Prix (Brisbane, Queensland)

1st (800m freestyle and 400m freestyle) - 2016 Santa Clara Grand Prix (Santa Clara, USA)

1st (800m freestyle and 400m freestlye) - 2016 Australian Swimming Championships (Adelaide,

Australia)

4th (800m freestyle), 3rd (400m freestyle) – 2015 World Championships (Kazan, Russia)

6th – 800m freestyle – 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games (Glasgow, Great Britain)

Career Highlights

Coming third in the Women's 400 Freestyle at the World Championships in Russia 2015

Being selected for my second Olympic Team

Education

Primary Regina Coeil Beverly Hills (NSW, Australia)

Secondary MLC Sydney, Burwood (NSW, Australia)

Tertiary Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice/ Bachelor of Psychological Science -

Gri倀ऄth University (2014-)

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Training

Coach Vince Raleigh (2014-current)

Club Chandler Swim Club

Institute/Academy Queensland Academy of Sport

Primary Training Base Brisbane, Queensland

Q&A

Favourite food Cookies

Favourite holiday destination Canada

Favourite music Anything and everything

Dream car Subaru WRX STI 2015

Star Sign Taurus

I would spend my last $10 on Co倀ࠃee

Tattoos/Piercings Olympic Rings on the side of my hip

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Water polo

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Cathy Freeman winning gold at the 2000 Olympics

First Olympic Memory? Attending the athletics in 2000

Most In䘀uential person in your career/life Mum and Dad Why this sport? Always loved being in the water

Bronte Barratt

Athlete Biography

One of the veterans of the Australia Team, Rio will be Bronte Barratt's third and last Olympics. She

will join clubmate Emma McKeon in the women’s 200m freestyle and the 4x200m relay at Rio after

倀茂nishing second to McKeon at the trials in Adelaide. Barratt was only 0.6 seconds outside of her

personal best, hitting the wall in 1:56.34.

The St Peters Western swimmer made her 倀茂rst national Team in 2005 but announced herself as a

force two years later when she broke the oldest record in Australian swimming, eclipsing Tracey

Wickham's 29-year-old 400m freestyle mark.

Barratt is a three-time Olympic medallist and one of only 倀茂ve swimmers to have been part of the

national team for 10 straight years or more. She joined teammates Stephanie Rice, Kylie Palmer

and Linda MacKenzie to claim Australia’s 倀茂rst gold medal in the 4 x 200m freestyle relay at the

Beijing 2008 Games. At the London Games in 2012 Barratt added to her relay medal with an

individual podium 倀茂nish, a bronze, in the 200m freestyle. She’s contested six world titles and is a

six-time Commonwealth Games medallist.

Barratt comes from a strong athletic family, with her grandmother an Olympian in long jump at the

Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games.

Barratt’s currently studying Medical Imaging, and has spoken of the Rio Games being her last

international competition.


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Event/s 200m Freestyle Women, 4 x 200m

Freestyle Relay Women

Nickname Baz


Age 27 Born Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Lives Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Olympic Information

2008 Beijing - 1st (4x200m freestyle relay); 7th (200m freestyle); 7th (400m freestyle) 2012

London - 2nd (4x200m Freestyle relay); 3rd (200m Freestyle); 11th (400m Freestyle)

Recent Performances

1st - (200m freestyle) - 2016 Brisbane Grand Prix (Brisbane, Australia)

2nd - (200m freestyle) - 2016 Santa Clara Grand Prix (Santa Clara, USA)

2nd (200m freestyle) – 2016 Australian Swimming Championships (Adelaide, Australia)

2nd (200m freestyle) – 2016 NSW Open Championships (Sydney, Australia)

2nd (200m freestyle)– 2015 Australian Short Course Championships (Sydney, Australia)

Career Highlights

Winning gold in the 4x 200 freestyle relay at the Beijing Olympics

Winning Bronze in the 200m Freestyle at the London Olympics

Winning Silver in the 4x200m Freestyle relay at the London Olympics

Education

Primary Samford State School (QLD, Australia)

Secondary St. Margarets Anglican Girls School (QLD, Australia)

Tertiary Bachelor of Medical Imaging (2013 - present)

Training


Coach Michael Bohl (2010 - current)

Primary Training Base Queensland, Australia

Q&A

Superstition/s The number 13

Favourite food Chocolate covered macadamias

Favourite holiday destination Paris

Favourite music RnB

Dream car Audi Q7

Personal Motto I am not afraid of tomorrow for I have seen yesterday and I love today

Star Sign Aquarius

I would spend my last $10 on A lotto ticket

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Hockey

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Michael Phelps winning 8 Gold at the Beijing Olympics

First Olympic Memory? Watching Kieren Perkins win the 1500m at the 1996 Olympics

Most In倀霂uential person in your career/life My Parents

Why this sport? I have always loved the water

Josh Beaver

Athlete Biography

Inspired by Olympic medallist Geoဠ† Huegill, Joshua Beaver will make his Olympic debut in Rio after

being selected in the men’s 100m and 200m backstroke.

Beaver just missed out on the Swimming Australia’s qualifying time in the men’s 100m backstroke,

clocking 53.77, 0.18 seconds outside the nomination cut oဠ†. But in front of a packed crowd in

Adelaide, he swam the race of his life in the 200m backstroke clocking 1:56.19.

Coached by Rohan Taylor, the 2015 World Championships ††nalist trains at the Nunawading

swimming club in Melbourne.

Beaver overcame major shoulder surgery and a hernia operation between 2012 and 2014 to make

it to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow where he claimed a silver in the 200m backstroke and a

bronze in the 100m backstroke.

The Melburnian ††nished last year ranked ninth in the world for the 200m backstroke.


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Event/s 100m Backstroke Men, 200m

Backstroke Men

Nickname Beaver


Age 23 Born Dandenong, VIC, Australia

Olympic Information


Recent Performances

2nd - (200m backstroke) - 2016 Brisbane Grand Prix (Brisbane Australia)

2nd (100m backstroke) – 2016 Australian Swimming Championships (Adelaide, Australia)

8th (200m backstroke) – 2015 World Championships (Kazan, Russia)

4th (100m backstroke) – 2015 FINA World Cup 2 (Paris, France)

3rd (100m backstroke) and 2nd (200m backstroke) – 2014 Commonwealth Games (Glasgow,

Scotland),

Career Highlights

2x Silver 1x Bronze 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games

Finishing 2015 ranked 9th in the World for 200 Backstroke

2015 FINA World Swimming Championships ††nalist

Education

Primary Tooradin Primary School

Secondary Haileybury College

Training

Coach Rohan Taylor (2014 - current)

Club Nunawading Swimming Club

Institute/Academy Victorian Institute of Sport

Primary Training Base Nunawading Aqualink

Secondary Training Base Police Academy (Glen Waverley)

Q&A

Favourite food Burgers

Favourite holiday destination Port Douglas

Favourite music Foo Fighters

Dream car Mercedes AMG C63

Star Sign Pisces

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be BMX

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? 4x100 Freestyle Relay, Sydney Olympics

First Olympic Memory? 4x100 Freestyle Relay, Sydney Olympics

Georgia Bohl

Athlete Biography

Gerogia Bohl booked her ticket to her ††rst Olympic Games when she won the 100m breaststroke in

a personal best time of 1:06.12 at the selection trials in April. The time moved her to the fourth

fastest Australian in the event.

The 19-year-old then ††nished second behind Taylor McKeown in the 200m breaststroke but missed

the qualifying time by just under a second. She also went on to win the non-Olympic 50m

breaststroke event at the trials.

Georgia is the daughter of esteemed coach Michael Bohl. She has been coached by her father since

a young age with the results evident of the successful partnership. Also in their squad at St Peters

Western Swim Club are fellow Rio Team members Madeline Groves, Madison Wilson, Bronte

Barratt and Brittany Elmslie.

Rio 2016 will be her ††rst big international competition but she is not fazed by this and has plenty of

experienced mentors.

She has a kitten and loves the beach and sun.



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Fast Facts

Sport Swimming

Status Selected

Event/s 100m Breaststroke Women, 200m Breaststroke Women, 4 x 100m Medley Relay

Women

Age 19

Born Auchen††ower, QLD, Australia

Lives Wilston, QLD, Australia

Social Media Links

Instagram

Olympic Information


Associated Olympians

Bronte Barratt

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Joshua Palmer

James Magnussen

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Recent Performances

2nd (100m breaststroke), 2nd (200m breaststroke) - 2016 Santa Clara Grand Prix (Santa Clara,

USA)

1st (100m breaststroke), 2nd (200m breaststroke), – 2016 Australian Swimming Championships


1st (100m breaststroke), 3rd (200m breaststroke) - 2016 NSW State Open Championships

(Sydney, Australia)

1st (100m breaststroke), 2nd (200m breaststroke) - 2016 Victorian Open Championships

(Melbourne, Australia)

1st (100m breaststroke), 2nd (200m breaststroke) – 2015 Queensland Championships (Brisbane,

Australia)

Career Highlights

Being selected for the 2016 Australian Olympic Team

At the Perth Aquatic Super Series placing 2nd in the 100 breast with a pb

Getting under 1.06.9 in season

Education

Primary Wilston State School (QLD, Australia)

Secondary St. Peter's Lutheran college (QLD,Australia)

Training

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Coach Michael Bohl (2010-current)

Club St. Peter's Western, St Lucia, QLD, Australia

Institute/Academy Gri†�th University

Primary Training Base Australia

Q&A

Superstition/s Try to prolong shaving my legs when I compete

Favourite food Mango

Favourite holiday destination Byron bay

Favourite music Electronic

Dream car Range Rover

Personal Motto I reiterate that winning isn't easy

Star Sign Aries

I would spend my last $10 on Some chewing gum or lollies

Tattoos/Piercings Tattoo on my lift ankle of a smiley face, when I'm stretching before I get in the

water it makes me smile or laugh

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Track and ††eld

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Stephanie Rice 200 and 400 IM

First Olympic Memory? Watching Ian Thorpe come home like a train in the 4x100 free relay

Most In††uential person in your career/life My Dad

Why this sport? I ††nd it very exciting trying to compete with my own personal times and trying toget better every day

Bronte Campbell

Athlete Biography

There will be another friendly sister showdown in Rio after Bronte Campbell quali㐀ed for her

second Olympic Games in the 50m and 100m freestyle, and the 4x100m freestyle relay.

Campbell upstaged reigning World Champion and older sister Cate at the 2015 FINA World

Championships in Kazan, Russia in the 100m freestyle event taking home gold. The sisters, trained

by Simon Cusack, became the 㐀rst family to stand on a podium together as individuals in swimming

history when Cate placed third behind Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom.

Bronte also took gold in the 50m freestyle event, putting her name in the record books as the third

swimmer in history to take the 50m and 100m freestyle double at a World Championship. Campbell

was crowned joint Australian swimmer of the year in 2015 along with Emily Seebohm.

In London, the Campbell siblings were the 㐀rst Australian sisters to compete in the same event at

the same Olympic Games where Bronte 㐀nished fourth in her semi-㐀nal to miss the 㐀nal by 0.23

seconds, placing her 10th overall.

The Malawi born athlete is one of 㐀ve siblings and took up competitive swimming when she moved

to Australia in 2001 at age seven. She hopes to follow her passion in sports media after her

swimming career.


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Freestyle Relay Women, 50m Freestyle Women

Height 179

Weight 58 Age 22

Born Blantyre, Malawi Lives Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Olympic Information

2012 London - 10th (50m freestyle)

Recent Performances

2nd (50m freestyle) - 2016 Brisbane Grand Prix (Brisbane, Australia)

2nd (100m freestyle) - 2016 Australian Championships (Adelaide, Australia)

1st (50m freestyle) and 1st (100m freestyle) - 2015 FINA World Championships (Kazan, Russia)

1st (4 x 100m freestyle relay) - 2015 FINA World Championships (Kazan, Russia)

3rd (50m freestyle), 2nd (100m freestyle) - 2014 Commonwealth Games (Glasgow, Scotland)

Career Highlights

World Championship gold in the 50m and 100m freestyle in Kazan, Russia 2015

Setting a World Record as part of the women's 4x100m freestyle relay team at the

Commonwealth Games in Glasgow 2014

Medalist at Pan Paci㐀c Championships on Gold Coast 2014, Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

2014 and World Championships in Barcelona 2013.

Education

Primary Indooroopilly State Primary School (QLD, Australia)

Secondary Kenmore State High School (QLD, Australia)

Tertiary Bachelor of Business- Queensland University of Technology (2013-)

Training


Coach Simon Cusack (2001 - current)

Club Commercial Swim Club

Primary Training Base Brisbane, Australia

Q&A

Superstition/s Don't have any

Favourite food Slow roasted lamb

Favourite holiday destination Somewhere warm and sunny and beach-like.

Favourite music Muse

Dream car Audi R8

Personal Motto Meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same

Star Sign Taurus

I would spend my last $10 on Probably food.

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Diving

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Grant Hackett 2000 1500m freestyle gold

First Olympic Memory? I remember watching the 2000 Olympics, particularly the swimming.

Most Inـuential person in your career/life My coach

Why this sport? I've always loved swimming since I was a kid, and it help that it's pretty much theonly sport I'm good at

Cate Campbell

Athlete Biography

Cate Campbell will line up in Rio as the current world record holder in the 100m freestyle after

taking 0.01 o� Britta Ste�en’s world mark with her 52.06 at the Brisbane Grand Prix on July 2.

As a 16-year-old Campbell, who was born in Malawi, returned from Beijing 2008 with an individual

(50m) and relay (4x100m) bronze medals. She almost gave the sport away after she was forced to

withdraw from the 2010 Commonwealth Games with a form of chronic fatigue syndrome. She

bounced back two years later to line up alongside Alicia Coutts, Brittany Elmslie and Melanie

Schlanger to win gold in the London 4 x 100m freestyle relay on the opening night of competition.

In 2013 she was crowned the 100m freestyle World Champion and was a member of the 4 x100m

freestyle relay world record breaking team at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

Training alongside younger sister Bronte, with coach Simon Cusack, they were the �rst Australian

siblings to qualify for the same swimming event (50m) at an Olympic Games in 2012. At the 2015

FINA World Championships in Russia they became the �rst family in history to stand on the podium

together when Campbell placed 3rd in the 100m freestyle event and witnessed her younger sister

become a World Champion.

The African born athlete is the eldest of �ve siblings and moved to Australia in 2001 where she

took up competitive swimming. Within six years she was a Youth Olympian and quali�ed for her

�rst Olympics. Campbell grew up dreaming of being a ballerina, but now wants to have a career in

the sports media industry when she hangs up her swimmers. She has a pet pig called Pepper, four

chickens and two pet lizards.. She is a massive Harry Potter fan.


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Freestyle Relay Women, 4 x 100m Medley Relay

Women, 50m Freestyle Women

Height 186

Weight 74 Age 24

Born Blantyre, Malawi Lives Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Olympic Information

2012 London - 1st (4x100m Freestyle Relay), 13th (50m freestyle) 2008 Beijing - 3rd (50m

freestyle); 3rd (4x100m freestyle); 10th (100m freestyle)

Recent Performances

1st - (50m freestyle and 100m freestyle) - 2016 Brisbane Grand Prix (Brisbane, Australia)

1st (100m freestyle) - 2016 Australian Championships (Adelaide, Australia)

1st (4 x 100m freestyle), 3rd (100m freestyle), 4th (50m freestyle) - 2015 FINA World

Championships (Kazan, Russia)

1st (100m freestyle) - 2014 Commonwealth Games (Glasgow, Scotland)

2nd (50m freestyle) - 2014 Commonwealth Games (Glasgow, Scotland)

Career Highlights

Qualifying for �rst Olympic team in 2008

Winning a Bronze in the 50m freestyle at the 2008 Olympics

Winning �rst World Championship title in the 100m freestyle in Barcelona 2013

Education

Primary Chapel Hill State School (QLD, Australia)

Secondary Kenmore State High School (QLD, Australia)

Tertiary Bachelor of Mass Communications - Queensland University of Technology (2011 - )


Training

Coach Simon Cusack (2001 - current)

Club Commercial Swimming Club

Institute/Academy QAS


Q&A

Favourite food Ice cream

Favourite holiday destination New Zealand- I haven't been there yet, but I've always wanted to.

Favourite music Muse

Dream car 1960 red convertible mustang

Personal Motto Live your fears, realise your dreams, attain your goals

Star Sign Taurus

I would spend my last $10 on Food

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Pole vault

Kyle Chalmers

Athlete Biography

Kyle Chalmers took up swimming after he was named in a team for a school swimming carnival at

age nine in Port Lincoln, seven hours drive from Adelaide. At 18 years-old he'll make his Olympic

debut in Rio.

The youngster claimed his spot on the 2016 Team with a standout performance in the men’s 100m

freestyle (48.03), ††nishing second ahead of some of his more fancied rivals.

The 2014 Youth Olympian made his World Championships debut in July last year in Kazan, Russia

with a fantastic 47.92 second leg in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay. He also raced in the 4x100m

medley heats where he swam even faster (47.86sec) to guide that team to the ††nal where they

won the silver medal.

One week after competing in Russia he competed at the World Junior Championships in Singapore

where he won seven medals, including three gold. He also took down Cameron McEvoy’s national

17 years record by winning the 100m freestyle in 48.47sec.

The Immanuel College student trains at the Marion Swimming Club in Adelaide in the High

Performance squad coached by Peter Bishop alongside Sally Hunter and Andrew Abood. Chalmers’

is almost identical in size to his father Brett, who played AFL for Adelaide and Port Adelaide.


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Event/s 100m Freestyle Men, 4 x 100m

Freestyle Relay Men

Height 193

Weight 90 Age 18

Born Ashford, SA, Australia Lives Glenelg North, SA, Australia

Olympic Information


2014 Nanjing - 3rd - 4 x 100 Mixed freestyle; 3rd - 4 x 100 Mixed Medley; 3rd - 4 x 100 IM

Recent Performances

3rd (100m freestyle) - 2016 Brisbane Grand Prix (Brisbane, Australia)

2nd (100m freestyle) – 2016 Australian Swimming Championships (Adelaide, Australia)

1st (100m freestyle) – 2015 World Junior Championships (Singapore)

2nd (4x100m medley) - 2015 World Championships (Kazan, Russia)

13th (4x100m freestyle) - 2015 World Championships (Kazan, Russia)

Career Highlights

Australian Senior Team debut - 2015 World Championships (Kazan, Russia) and being presented

with my Gold cap.

2015 Junior World Championships Singapore - GOLD 100m Freestyle, Broke the Championship

record and Australian Age Record.

2015 Junior World Championships Singapore - GOLD 50m Freestyle.

Education

Primary Saint Josephs School, Port Lincoln, SA, Australia

Secondary Immanuel College, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Training


Coach Peter Bishop 2011-Current, Shelly Jarrett 2013-Current

Club Marion Swimming Club, Adelaide, South Australia

Institute/Academy SASI - South Australian Institute of Sport

Primary Training Base Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Q&A

Superstition/s I always brush my teeth twice on the morning of race day, chew a Extra chewy on

the way to the pool and eat a banana after my warm up.

Favourite food Enchildas

Favourite holiday destination Port Lincoln, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia

Dream car Range Rover Evoque

Personal Motto To always strive to do the best that I can do and enjoy what I do.

Star Sign Cancer

I would spend my last $10 on Farmers Union Iced Coဠ†ee

Tattoos/Piercings Not applicable

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Basketball

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Sydney 2000 Olympics - 4 x 100 Mens Freestyle Relay

First Olympic Memory? Athens 2004 Ian Thorpe vs Michael Phelps

Most In††uential person in your career/life My Dad Brett Why this sport? I love competition and the experiences that it gives me.

Tamsin Cook

Athlete Biography

Tamsin Cook was the youngest swimmer selected on to the 2016 Australian Olympic Team when

the 17-year-old handled the pressure of the trials and con倀茂rmed her place at Rio 2016.

She claimed second in the 400m freestyle behind World Championship bronze medallist Jess

Ashwood to secure her spot on her maiden Olympic Team. Her time of 4:06.38 was just 0.21

seconds o倀ࠃ her personal best.

Cook 倀茂nished second again behind Ashwood in the 800m freestyle and just missed the qualifying

time by an agonising 0.05 seconds. She was later selected in the event.

The youngster announced herself as star of the future at the 2015 FINA World Junior Swimming

Championships. She won gold in the 400m freestyle, was a part of the junior world record breaking

4x200m freestyle gold medal winning team and also won silver in the 200m butter倀霂y. Just under a

year out from the Rio Games, Cook set her personal best time of 4:06.17 in Singapore. That time

made her the sixth fastest Australian female swimmer in the event.

The South African born athlete moved with her family to Perth Australia at the age of 8 in 2007. In

Perth she enjoyed surf club, hockey and horse riding before focusing on swimming.


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Event/s 400m Freestyle Women, 800m

Freestyle Women

Nickname Cookie


Age 17 Born Cape Town, South Africa

Lives Perth, WA, Australia

Olympic Information


Recent Performances

2nd (400m freestyle) - 2016 Australian Swimming Championships (Adelaide, Australia)

2nd (800m freestyle) - 2016 Australian Swimming Championships (Adelaide, Australia)

4th (400m freestyle), 4th (800m freestyle) - 2016 Victorian Open Championships (Melbourne,

Australia)

1st (400m freestyle) – 2015 World Junior Championships (Adelaide, Australia)

2nd (4×200m freestyle relay) – 2015 World Junior Championships (Adelaide, Australia)

Career Highlights

Winning a silver medal and qualifying for my 倀茂rst Olympic games in the 400m freestyle at the

Australian Championships.

Being a part of the 4 x 200 m freestyle relay team with Shayna Jack, Lucy McJannett and

Gemma Cooney which broke the Junior World record and won gold at the World Junior

Championships in Singapore in 2015.

Winning gold in the 400m Freestyle at the World Junior Championships in 2015.

Education

Primary Carine Primary School, WA, Australia

Secondary SIDE, Schools of Isolated and Distance Education

Training


Coach Mick Palfrey ( November 2013 to current)

Club UWA West Coast Swim Club, HBF Stadium, Perth WA

Institute/Academy WAIS West Australian Institute of Sport

Primary Training Base Perth WA

Q&A

Favourite food Dark Chocolate

Favourite holiday destination Coral Bay WA, South Africa,

Personal Motto Be the change you wish to see in the world

Star Sign Capricorn


If I could try another Olympic sport it would be A team sport

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Cathy Freeman winning the 400m gold at the Sydney 2000

Olympics.

First Olympic Memory? Watching the 2008 Olympics on TV

Most Inꖴuential person in your career/life My Mum, and other inspiring women.

Why this sport? Its exciting, true, and being successful depends on how hard you are willing towork.

Alicia Coutts

Athlete Biography

Alicia Coutts secured selection on her third Olympic Team when she won the 200m individual

medley at the trials in Adelaide. She was also 5th in the 100m freestyle ᾄnal, after just missing in

the 100m butterᾔy (3rd).

Coutts, coached by John Fowlie, became the star of Australia’s swim team at the London 2012

Games when she took home two individual (silver 200mIM, bronze 100m butterᾔy) and three relay

medals (gold 4x100m, silver 4x200m, silver 4x100m Medley). That ᾄve medal haul matched Ian

Thorpe and Shane Gould’s record of most medals at a single Olympics.

Coutts made her Olympic debut at the Beijing Games in 2008 where she was ᾄfth in the 200m IM

before winning ᾄve gold at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games.

2015 was a year of ups and downs for the Canberra based athlete, ᾄrst missing out on the 2015

World Championships Team in July but then marrying her husband, high school teacher Steve

Hardy, in September. Her Olympic trials preparation was hampered by a left shoulder injury, which

will never return to 100 per cent.

Winning 21 medals for Australia in major championships since 2008, she was awarded an Australia

Day Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for her service to sport in 2014. She has previously announced

that she will retire from competitive swimming after the Rio Olympic Games.


Swimming

O0cial Home of the 2016 Australian Olympic Team


Fast Facts


Event/s 200m Individual Medley Women Nickname Couttsie



Lives Canberra, ACT, Australia

Tamsin Cook

Thomas Fraser-Holmes

Brittany Elmslie

Career Highlights

Placing 5th in the 200 Individual Medley at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

Education

Primary St Matthew's Cornubia (QLD, Australia)

Secondary Chisholm College (QLD, Australia)

Training

Coach John Fowlie (2007 - current)

Primary Training Base Canberra, Australia

Q&A

Superstition/s I don't cut my nails before I race and I always do exactly the same routine.

Favourite food Chocolate

Favourite holiday destination Port Douglas

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Favourite music Top 40

Dream car Audi

Personal Motto Success isn't ᾄnal, failure isn't fatal, it's courage that counts

Star Sign Virgo

I would spend my last $10 on Some yummy food

Tattoos/Piercings 6 piercings - 5 in my ears, 1 in my belly button If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Diving

Brittany Elmslie

Athlete Biography

After pulling out of the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, Russia due to a health scare, Brittany

Elmslie turned her attention towards preparing for the National Championships in April, 2016

where secured her second Olympic selection in the 4x100m freestyle.

Making her Olympic debut in London at 18 years-old, Elmslie did not appear to feel the pressure as

she came home with a gold and two silver relay medals (both as a heat swimmer), which saw her

awarded an order of Australia Medal (OAM).

Growing up in Noosa, on the Sunshine Coast, Elmslie started competitively swimming at age 13.

She had her ퟞ펹rst taste of international glory at the 2009 Junior Pan Paciퟞ펹c Championships in

Hawaii where she came home with gold in the 50m and 100m freestyle and two bronze relay

medals.

She made her international senior team debut at the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona,

winning silver in two relays, placing ninth in the 50m butterᏜ닢y and 10th in the 100m butterᏜ닢y. The

following year she won bronze in the 50m butterᏜ닢y at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and was

a member of the world record breaking 4 x 100m freestyle relay team.

She studies a Business degree, majoring in Event and Sport Management at Griဉth University.


Swimming

Oဉcial Home of the 2016 Australian Olympic Team


Fast Facts


Event/s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Women Nickname Brit

Height 179 Age 22

Born Nambour, QLD, Australia Lives Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Olympic Information

2012 London - 1st (4x100 freestyle relay); 2nd (4x200 freestyle relay); 2nd (4x100 medley relay)

Recent Performances

2nd (100m freestyle) - 2016 Brisbane Grand Prix (Brisbane, Australia)

2nd (50m freestyle) - 2016 Santa Clara Grand Prix (Santa Clara, USA)

4th (100m freestyle) – 2016 Australian Swimming Championships (Adelaide, Australia)

3rd (50m butterᏜ닢y) - 2014 Commonwealth Games (Glasgow, Scotland)

1st (4x100m freestyle relay) - 2014 Commonwealth Games (Glasgow, Scotland)

Education

Primary Good Shepherd Lutheran College (Noosa, QLD, Australia)

Secondary St Margarets A.G.S (Brisbane, QLD, Australia)

Tertiary Bachelor of Media and Communication / Bachelor of Nutrition Science - Queensland

University of Technology (2015- current)

Training

Coach David Lush

Club Brisbane Grammar Swimming



Q&A


Superstition/s I don't believe in being superstitious.

Favourite food Gluten free donuts (Nodo Donuts)

Favourite holiday destination Maui, Hawaii

Favourite music Justin Bieber

Dream car Upper class soccer mum car

Personal Motto If you want to ퟞ펹nd happiness, ퟞ펹nd gratitude!

Star Sign Gemini

I would spend my last $10 on A fresh toothbrush and some toothpaste. No matter how gross you

feel, if you have clean teeth you will feel better.

Tattoos/Piercings Tattoo - Olympic rings on my right wrist. Got the tattoo in London during the

2nd week of the 2012 Olympics when we had ퟞ펹nished racing, I used it to remind me of my 2016

Olympic dream during tough moments!

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Tennis or beach volleyball

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Allison Schmitt 200 Freestyle (London 2012)

First Olympic Memory? Watching the 2004 Olympics on TV

Most InᏜ닢uential person in your career/life Michael Sage my ퟞ펹rst elite swim coach, taught me how

to train hard and he still believes in me Why this sport? Always been a water baby

Blair Evans

Athlete Biography

Blair Evans clocked a personal best time (4:35.26) to secure her spot on her second Games Team,

upsetting the women’s 400m individual medley hot favourite, Queensland’s Keryn McMaster, to

claim this year’s national title.

Evans, from West Australia, 倀茂nished second behind Stephanie Rice in the 400m Individual Medley

at the 2012 Australian Championships to secure her maiden berth on the Australian Olympic Team

for the 2012 London Games. Evans 倀茂nished sixth in her heat of the event in London before

swimming in the heat of the 4x200m freestyle, which saw Australia taking home the silver medal in

the 倀茂nal.

Evans, coached by Bud McAllister, won her 倀茂rst Australian title in the 800m at the 2009 National

Championships and went on to make her senior international debut at the World Championships

where she 倀茂nished 18th. She won gold at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the 4x200m freestyle

relay and won silver in the same event at the 2011 World Championships.

Prolonged injury during 2013 and 2014, including bulging neck discs, shoulder pain and surgery,

saw Evans almost hang up her swimmers for good. While a move to Queensland to train at the

same time didn’t work out.

Evans trains one night a week in the same pool in Perth as exciting teenager, and fellow Rio Team

member, Tamsin Cook, who will compete in the 400m freestyle. As a racing superstition, Evans

always has her nails painted red before competition


Swimming



Fast Facts


Event/s 400m Individual Medley Women Nickname B


Age 25 Born Perth, WA, Australia

Lives Perth, WA, Australia

Olympic Information

2012 London – 2nd (4 x 200m freestyle relay), 13th (400m individual medley)

Recent Performances

1st (400m IM) – 2016 Australian Open Championships (Adelaide, Australia)

2nd (200m IM), 2nd (400m IM) - 2016 Victorian Open (Melbourne, Australia)

2nd (200m IM), 2nd (400m IM) – 2015 Australian Short Course Championships (Sydney,

Australia)

1st (200m IM), 1st (400m IM) – 2015 Long Course Qualifying Meet (Perth, Australia)

Career Highlights

Making my 倀茂rst Olympic team 2012 in the 400IM

Breaking the SC AUS record in the 400 Freestyle at the Beijing leg of World Cup 2011

Winning my 倀茂rst Open National title, 800m Freestyle 2009

Education

Primary Padbury Primary School, Perth WA, AUS

Secondary Sacred Heart College Sorrento, Perth WA, AUS

Training

Coach Bud Mc Allister (2014-current)


Club UWA West Coast, Perth, WA, AUS

Institute/Academy WAIS

Primary Training Base HBF Arena PERTH

Secondary Training Base Craigie Leisure Centre PERTH

Q&A

Superstition/s NEED to have my nails painted red while racing.

Favourite food Sushi

Favourite holiday destination Bali, Indonesia Dunsborough, Yallingup, Margaret River. (South of

Perth, WA)

Dream car Range Rover or Audi Q3

Personal Motto Everything happens for a reason.

Star Sign Aries

I would spend my last $10 on I'd like to say something cool...but probably food

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Pole-vaulting looks fun.

Most In倀霂uential person in your career/life Mum and Dad,

Thomas Fraser-Holmes

Athlete Biography

London Olympian Thomas Fraser-Holmes became the 䘀쐂rst swimmer to book a spot on the 2016

Australian Olympic Team, claiming his seventh straight national 400m individual medley title

(4:11.09) on the 䘀쐂rst night of trials.

In a performance which brought down the house at the trials, Fraser-Holmes went on to secure a

spot in the men’s 200m freestyle with a thrilling dead heat for gold with fellow Rio teammate Cam

McEvoy in 1:45.63.

Four years ago in his Olympic debut, Fraser-Holmes 䘀쐂nished seventh in the 䘀쐂nals of both the 400m

individual medley and 200m freestyle. He was also 䘀쐂fth as a part of the Australian 4 x 200m

freestyle team that missed out on the medal dais by 0.7secs.

Fraser-Holmes, born in Newcastle, claimed the 200m freestyle at the 2014 Commonwealth Games

and at the Pan Pac Championships on the Gold Coast.

With three tattoos - the Commonwealth Games symbol, kangaroo and star – the Miami Swimming

Club athlete will be aiming to make a splash in Brazil.


Swimming

Fast Facts





Freestyle Relay Men, 400m Individual Medley

Men

Nickname Tommy


Age 24 Born Newcastle, NSW, Australia

Lives Gold Coast, QLD, Australia


Kotuku Ngawati

Mitch Larkin

Cate Campbell

Madi Wilson

MORE

Career Highlights

Winning gold in the 4 x 200m freestyle relay and bronze in the 200m freestyle at the 2010

Commonwealth Games in Delhi

Education

Primary St Joseph's Primary School (NSW, Australia)

Secondary St Francis Xavier's College (NSW, Australia)

Tertiary Bachelor of Commerce - Gri䘀朄th University Gold Coast

Training

Coach Denis Cottrell (2010 - present)

Primary Training Base Gold Coast, Australia

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Q&A

Favourite food Pizza

Favourite holiday destination Hawaii

Favourite music ou est le swimming pool

Dream car Ferrari

Personal Motto Failing to prepare is preparing to fail

Star Sign Libra

I would spend my last $10 on Maccas

Tattoos/Piercings Commonwealth Games symbol, kangaroo and star

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Canoe/Kayak

Madeline Groves

Athlete Biography

Madeline Groves will be hoping to take over the mantle as Australia’s next butter닢︲y star after

securing selection for Rio 2016 in the 100m and 200m butter닢︲y. The Brisbane athlete won the

200m 닢︲y clocking 2:05.47 - a time that would have won her gold at last year’s World Championships

in Kazan. This followed her second in the 100m behind Emma McKeon.

Groves is coached by Michael Bohl at St Peter’s Western and trains alongside the likes of current

World Champion Mitch Larkin, dual Olympic medallist Bronte Barratt and fellow World

Championships teammates Madison Wilson and Grant Irvine.

She took a year o繻㾾 the sport in 2011 but returned after she 펹�nished high school. Since then she has

stepped onto the podium at the Commonwealth Games, with a bronze at Glasgow 2014 in the

200m butter닢︲y.

In 2014 she su繻㾾ered from debilitating and mysterious shoulder and neck pain, which was later

identi펹�ed as pain from clenched jaw which she’s worked to 펹�x with an orthodontist.

She had a standout 12 months including her 펹�rst World Championships where she just missed out

on the 100m butter닢︲y 펹�nals.


Swimming

Fast Facts




Event/s 100m Butter닢︲y Women, 200m

Butter닢︲y Women, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay

Women

Nickname Mad Dog, Machine Gun



Lives Australia

Olympic Information


Recent Performances

1st (200m butter닢︲y) - 2016 Santa Clara Grand Prix (Santa Clara, USA)

1st (200m butter닢︲y,), 2nd (100m butter닢︲y) – 2016 Australian Swimming Championships


9th (200m butter닢︲y) – 2015 World Championships (Kazan, Russia)

11th (100m butter닢︲y) – 2015 World Championships (Kazan, Russia)

3rd (200m butter닢︲y) – 2014 Commonwealth Games (Glasgow, Scotland)

Career Highlights

3 time Australian National Champion in the 200m butter닢︲y

Competing for Australia at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, bronze in the 200m butter닢︲y

Education

Primary Wilston State Primary School

Secondary St Peters Lutheran College

Tertiary Bachelor of Social Science

Training

Coach Michael Bohl 2012-current

Club St Peters Western



Primary Training Base Brisbane

Q&A

Superstition/s Very suuperstiiiitioooous

Favourite food Calamari

Favourite holiday destination Burleigh Beach

Favourite music Smooth Jazz

Dream car Mistubishi Delica

Personal Motto Don't let anyone dull your sparkle

Star Sign Gemini

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Snowboarding

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Beijing 2008 - Aus Women 4x200m freestyle Gold

Most In倀霂uential person in your career/life My Coach Michael Bohl Why this sport? If you've seen me run you'd understand

Chelsea Lea Gubecka

Athlete Biography

At only 17 years-old, Queenslander Chelsea Gubecka will make her Olympic debut in the women’s

10km marathon swim at Rio, after booking her spot on the plane with a strong swim at the 〺癯nal

Olympic quali〺癯er in Setabul, Portugal.

Gubecka, who was born in Nambour, beat fellow Australian Kareena Lee for a position on the 2016

Team by 〺癯nishing fourth in Portugal, clocking 1hr55min34sec.

The teenager was determined to secure her spot on the Team after narrowly missing the automatic

quota spot at the 2015 World Championships where she 〺癯nished 13th, with the top 10 taking home

Rio quali〺癯cation.

The youngster made her international debut at just 14 at the 2013 World Championships after she

beat dual Olympian Mel Gorman at the Australian Championships that year. She 〺癯nished 30th in

her debut for the Australian Team.

Gubecka, coached by Michael Sage in Brisbane, started learn to swim classes when she just 〺癯ve

months old. Coincidentally Sage was fellow Rio teammate Jarrod Poort’s junior coach.


Swimming

Fast Facts




Event/s 10km Open Water Women Height 162

Weight 62 Age 17

Born Nambour, QLD, Australia Lives Brisbane, QLD

Olympic Information


Recent Performances

4th - 2016 Olympic quali〺癯er (Setabul, Portugal)

17th – 2016 World Cup (Abu Dhabi, UAE)

1st – 2016 Australian Championships (Mooloolaba, Queensland)

13th – 2015 World Championships (Kazan, Russia)

7th – 2015 World Cup (Mexico)

Career Highlights

2014 Pan Paci〺癯c Games bronze medallist - 10km

13th at 2015 World Championships - 10km

2x National 10km champion

Education

Primary Kawana Waters State College (QLD, Australia)

Secondary Kawana Waters State College (QLD, Australia)

Tertiary Bachelor of Business Management - University of Sunshine Coast (2016 - current)

Training

Coach Michael Sage (2014 - current)

Club Kawana Waters


Primary Training Base Queensland, Australia


Q&A

Favourite food Salmon

Favourite holiday destination Hawaii or Italy

Favourite music Anything recent

Personal Motto "A quitter never wins and winners never quit"

Star Sign Virgo

Jacob Hansford

Athlete Biography

Jacob Hansford, from Blacktown in Sydney’s west, booked his ticket to the Rio Olympic Games

when he was 倀茂fth in the stacked 200m freestyle at the selection trials to secure a coveted spot in

the 4x200m relay team. He was also 倀茂fth in the 400m freestyle.

The 20-year-old made his international debut in 2015 at the World University Games in South Korea

where he swam to silver in the 4x200m relay and an individual bronze in the men’s 200m freestyle.

The 2015 Hong Kong World Cup proved to be another career highlight for Hansford after he took

home the bronze medal in the men’s 200m behind fellow Aussie Dan Smith.

Hansford trains at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre and divides his time between training in

the pool and working at the Blacktown Workers Club.

Raised in a family of swimmers, Hansford 倀茂rst jumped in the pool when he was four and never

looked back. When he’s not in the pool or pouring beers, Hansford studies at the Australian College

of Physical Education where he is completing a Bachelor of sports business. He played rugby league

all through high school.


Swimming

Fast Facts




Event/s 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay Men Height 182

Weight 77 Age 20

Born Baulkham Hills, NSW, Australia Lives NSW, Australia


Jarrod Poort

Jake Packard

Cate Campbell

Grant Irvine

MORE

Career Highlights

Bronze in 200m free at 2015 World University Games

Silver in 4x200m free 2015 world university games

Education

Primary Australian college of physical education (NSW, Australia)

Tertiary Bachelor of Sports Business

Training

Coach Adam Kable 2014-current

Club Sopac, Sydney Olympic park, nsw, Australia

Primary Training Base Sydney, Australia

Q&A

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Superstition/s I have a routine before I race

Favourite food Pizza

Favourite holiday destination Hawaii

Favourite music Old school hip/hop and rap

Dream car Audi R8

Personal Motto Work hard and be good to your mother

Star Sign Libra

I would spend my last $10 on A steak at the high 倀霂yer

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Water polo

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? 2008 men's 4x100 freestyle relay

First Olympic Memory? Ian Thorpe 2000

Most In倀霂uential person in your career/life Michael Phelps

Belinda Hocking

Athlete Biography

Belinda Hocking will make her third Olympic appearance in Rio after a stunning performance in the

200m backstroke ††nal, claiming the National title in a surprise upset over World Champion Emily

Seebohm.

Born in Victoria, Hocking took up swimming as a four-year-old on her doctors recommendations to

improve her asthma. She started competitively swimming at age 12 with the Albury Swim Club.

Whilst training at the AIS in Canberra she won three gold and two silver medals at the 2007

Australian Youth Olympic Festival. In 2008 she clocked the second fastest national time in the

100m backstroke and by 2009 the 200m backstroke record was hers.

She made her Olympic debut in Beijing, placing 8th in the 200m backstroke. In London she ††nished

seventh in the 100m backstroke as compatriot Emily Seebohm won silver. Hocking ††nished ††fth in

her 200m backstroke semi-††nal and missed the ††nal.

2013 was the start of a great two years for Hocking. She claimed silver in the 200m backstroke at

the World Championships in Barcelona before taking home two gold medals (200m backstroke and

4 x 100m medley relay) and a bronze (100m backstroke) at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth

Games.

Late in 2014, Hocking accidently set herself on ††re, had a car accident and a string of sporting

injuries saw her taking a hiatus from the pool to regroup. However she was back in the pool in late

2015, claiming two fourth places at the 2015 World Cup in Tokyo and a silver medal at the

Australian Short Course Championships.




Swimming

Fast Facts


Event/s 200m Backstroke Women Nickname Bindy


Age 25 Born Wangaratta, VIC, Australia

Lives Canberra, ACT, Australia

Olympic Information

2012 London - 6th (100m backstroke), 10th (200m backstroke) 2008 Beijing - 8th (200m

backstroke)

2007 Sydney - 1st (4x100m Freestyle Relay), 1st (4x100 Medley Relay), 1st(4x200m Freestyle

Relay), 2nd (100m Backstroke), 2nd (200m Backstroke)

Recent Performances

4th (200m backstroke) - 2016 Brisbane Grand Prix (Brisbane, Australia)

1st (200m backstroke) – 2016 Australian Swimming Championship (Adelaide, Australia)

4th (100m backstroke) 2016 Australian Swimming Championship (Adelaide, Australia)

1st (200m backstroke) 2014 Commonwealth Games (Glasgow, Great Britain)

1st (200m backstroke) 2014 Pan Paci††c Games (Gold Coast, Australia)

Career Highlights

2014 Commonwealth Games: 2 Gold (200m Backstroke and 4x100m Medley Relay) and 1 Bronze

(100m Backstroke)

2013 World Championships: 2nd (200m Backstroke)

Triple Olympian 2008 Beijing, 2012 London and now 2016 Rio

Education

Primary St. Bernard's Primary School (VIC, Australia)

Secondary Galen Catholic College (VIC, Australia)

Tertiary Bachelor of Primary School Education: Deakin University (2015- current


Training

Coach Rohan Taylor (2012-current)

Club Nunawading, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)


Primary Training Base Melbourne, Australia

Q&A

Superstition/s Never put new shoes on the table!

Favourite food Chicken Parmigiana

Favourite holiday destination Anywhere with a beach

Favourite music Anything

Personal Motto If it's meant to be, it will be

Star Sign Virgo


Tattoos/Piercings Ears pierced, Tattoo of the Olympic rings on my right ankle

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Gymnastics

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Cathy Freeman, 2000 Sydney Olympics, when she won the

400m race in her iconic suit.

First Olympic Memory? 2000 Sydney Olympic Games opening ceremony

Most In倀霂uential person in your career/life My coach Rohan Taylor

Why this sport? Because i had bad asthma as a child and the doctors told me to swim to help buildmy lungs

Mack Horton

Athlete Biography

20-year-old Melburnian Mack Horton will compete in the 1500m freestyle, 400m freestyle and the

4 x 200m freestyle relay after a standout trials in Adelaide in April.

Horton narrowly missed out on selection for the London 2012 Olympics after 䘀쐂nishing second in

the 1,500 metres freestyle at the trials four years ago.

Since that disappointment, Horton has gone on to win silver at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth

Games and then despite a parasitic bug he won bronze in the 800m freestyle (a non-Olympic event)

at the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, Russia.

Horton has previously slept with a piece of paper above his bed with the list of age record holders

for the 1500m freestyle, showing how proud he is of Australia’s record in the event.

He studies commerce online at university, wears thick rimmed glasses out of the pool, and contacts

in it, to cope with short-sightedness.


Swimming

Fast Facts



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Freestyle Relay Men, 400m Freestyle Men

Nickname Mack


Age 20 Born Malvern, VIC, Australia

Olympic Information


Recent Performances

1st (400m freestyle) – 2016 Australian Swimming Championships (Adelaide, Australia)

2nd (400m freestyle) – 2016 NSW Open Championships (Sydney, Australia)

11th (400m freestyle) – 2015 World Championships (Kazan, Russia)

4th (400m freestyle) – 2014 Commonwealth Games (Glasgow, Scotland)

2nd (1500m freestyle) – 2014 Commonwealth Games (Glasgow, Scotland)

Training

Coach Craig Jackson


Primary Training Base Melbourne Vicentre Swimming Club at Melbourne Sports and Aquatic

Centre

Grant Irvine

Athlete Biography

Grant Irvine swam a 1:55.73 in the 200m butter倀霂y 倀茂nal to sneak under the qualifying standard by

just 0.02 seconds and book his ticket for his debut Olympic Games in Rio. In a captivating 倀茂nal

Morgan and good friend Grant Irvine dragged each other to the wall and both booked their tickets

to Rio.

He again 倀茂nished in second behind Morgan in the 100m butter倀霂y with a time of 51.76 missing the

qualifying standard by 0.25 seconds. He was later selected in the event.

Having missed out on qualifying for the London 2012 Games, the Queenslander became Australia’s

second fastest man ever in the 200m butter倀霂y event in early 2013. He swam a 1:55.32 to sit only

behind Australian record holder Nick D’Arcy in the event.

Irvine 倀茂nished with the silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games behind South Africa’s Chad

le Clos. Irvine 倀茂nished in a time 1:56.34, 1.27 seconds behind le Clos who broke the Games record in

the 倀茂nal. He competed in the 200m butter倀霂y at the 2015 World Championships, 倀茂nishing 8th in his

semi in a time of 1:57.94 in Kazan, Russia.

He has a twin, loves snowboarding, beach volleyball and he used to swim backstroke


Swimming

Fast Facts




Event/s 100m Butter倀霂y Men, 200m Butter倀霂y

Men

Nickname Grunz




Olympic Information


Recent Performances

2nd (200m butter倀霂y) - 2016 Brisbane Grand Prix (Brisbane, Australia)

7th (200m butter倀霂y) - 2016 Santa Clara Grand Prix (Santa Clara, USA)

2nd (100m butter倀霂y and 200m butter倀霂y) - 2016 Australian Swimming Championships (Adelaide,

Australia)

7th (100m butter倀霂y), 3rd (200m butter倀霂y) - 2016 Victorian Open Championships (Melbourne,

Australia)

15th (200m butter倀霂y) – 2015 World Championships (Kazan, Russia)

Career Highlights

Making the Olympic Team for Rio

Qualifying for my 1st World's team in 2013 in Adelaide

Winning Silver at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014

Education

Primary Jamboree Heights State School, QLD, AUS

Secondary Centenary State High School QLD, AUS

Tertiary Queensland University of Technology Bachelor of Business - Accounting 2009-2014

Training

Coach Michael Bohl (2004 - Current)


Club St Peter's Western, Indooroopilly, QLD, AUS



Q&A

Superstition/s none

Favourite food Roast Lamb

Favourite holiday destination Any Beach

Favourite music cold play

Dream car ferrari 458

Star Sign Pisces

I would spend my last $10 on chocolate

Tattoos/Piercings none

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Tennis

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Phelps 2008

First Olympic Memory? 2000 australia 4x100 free relay

Most In䘀uential person in your career/life Michael Bohl Why this sport? I love being in the water/ i love pushing myself to new limits

Mitch Larkin

Athlete Biography

Dual World Champion Mitch Larkin has his eye on gold at Rio. He won both the 100m and 200m

backstroke at the Nationals. His 100m backstroke win (52.54) was just 0.04 o輓使 his world title time

from Kazan. Larkin's personal best is the national and Commonwealth record of 52.11.

He enjoyed a stellar 2015 alongside fellow World Champion and girlfriend Emily Seebohm,

becoming only the fourth person – and the 輓圏rst in 10 years - to complete the 100m-200m double at

the World Championships. He also claimed multiple World Cup wins, set the 200m world short

course record and was named FINA male swimmer of the year.

The Brisbane engineering student is coached by Michael Bohl at St Peters Western Swim Club

alongside fellow Rio Team members Madeline Groves, Madison Wilson, Georgia Bohl, Bronte

Barratt and Brittany Elmslie.

Larkin made his Olympic debut at London 2012 in the 200m backstroke where he made it through

to the 輓圏nals and 輓圏nished eighth.

His Olympic journey began back in 2009 at the Australian Youth Olympic Festival where he

competed in 輓圏ve events, winning silver in the 400m individual medley.


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Event/s 100m Backstroke Men, 200m

Backstroke Men, 4 x 100m Medley Relay Men

Nickname Mitch


Age 23 Born Buderim, QLD, Australia


Olympic Information

2012 London - 8th (200m backstroke)

Recent Performances

1st (100m backstroke), 1st (200m backstroke) - 2016 Brisbane Grand Prix (Brisbane, Australia)

1st (200m backstroke), 2nd (100m backstroke) - 2016 Santa Clara Grand Prix (Santa Clara, USA)

1st (200m backstroke), 1st (100m backstroke) - 2016 Australian Open Championships (Adelaide,

Australia)

1st (100m backstroke), 1st (200m backstroke) – 2015 World Championships (Kazan, Russia)

1st (100m backstroke) – 2015 World Cup (Dubai, UAE)

Career Highlights

Winning both the 100m and 200m Backstroke at the 2015 World Championships in Kazan,

Russia.

Breaking the 200m backstroke shortcourse World Record in 2015.

Education

Primary Wishart State School (QLD, Australia)

Secondary John Paul College (QLD, Australia)

Tertiary Bachelor of Engineering - Queensland University of Technology (2011 - )

Training

Coach Michael Bohl (2009 - current)

Club St Peters Western, Indooroopilly QLD AUS



Primary Training Base Birsbane, QLD

Q&A

Favourite food Good Aussie BBQ medium rare steak

Favourite holiday destination Tokyo, Japan

Favourite music Chet Faker or Flight Facilites

Dream car There are too many to choose from.

Personal Motto All the water in the entire ocean isn't able to sink a ship, only by the water it lets

inside.

Star Sign Cancer

I would spend my last $10 on Most likely food

Tattoos/Piercings I have the Olympic rings on my left hip

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Cycling First Olympic Memory? 2000 Sydney Olympics

James Magnussen

Athlete Biography

Two-time World Champion James Magnussen, on the comeback from shoulder surgery, will

compete at his second Games after being selected in the men’s 4x100m freestyle relay for Rio

2016.

Magnussen missed out on an individual berth in the men’s 100m freestyle after facing strong

competition from Cam McEvoy and young gun Kyle Chalmers but 馪䒌nished in fourth place at the

Australian Championships in April which was enough to secure a relay spot.

The Sydneysider missed out on defending his 100m freestyle world title at the 2015

Championships due to injury but made returned to the pool at this year’s nationals which doubled

as the Rio trials.

The ‘Missile’ won a silver and bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in the 100m freestyle and

4x100m medley relay respectively. Having claimed a win at the 2011 World Championships in the

100m freestyle, Magnussen overcame the disappointment of his 2012 Olympics campaign to

successfully defend his 100m freestyle world title at the 2013 FINA World Championships in

Barcelona.

Outside of the pool Magnussen likes to spend time with his mini sausage dog, Olli.


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Event/s 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Men Nickname Maggie


Age 25 Born Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia


Olympic Information

2012 London - 2nd (100m Freestyle); 3rd (4x100m medley); 4th (4x100m freestyle); 9th (50m

freestyle)

Recent Performances

1st (100m freestyle), 3rd (50m freestyle) - 2016 Santa Clara Grand Prix (Santa Clara, USA)

4th (100m freestyle) – 2016 Australian Swimming Championships (Adelaide, Australia)

3rd (50m freestyle) – 2016 Australian Swimming Championships (Adelaide, Australia)

1st (50m freestyle) – 2016 NSW Open Championships (Sydney, Australia)

3rd (100m freestyle) – 2016 NSW Open Championships (Sydney, Australia)

Career Highlights

Gold100m free world championships 2011 China

Gold 100m free world championships 2013 Spain

Silver 100m free London Olympics 2012

Education

Primary St Agnes Primary School Port Macquarie (NSW, Australia)

Secondary St Joseph's Regional Port Macquarie (NSW, Australia), Mackillop Senior College

(NSW, Australia)

Tertiary Bachelor of Sports Business - Australian College of Physical Education (2011 - )

Training


Coach Brant Best (2010 - 2014); Mitch Falvey (2015 - current)

Club Ravenswood, Sydney

Institute/Academy NSWIS

Primary Training Base Sydney, Australia

Q&A

Favourite food Malteasers

Favourite holiday destination Port Macquarie, NSW

Favourite music rap / hip hop

Dream car Range Rover

Star Sign Aries

I would spend my last $10 on Roullette table to double it

Tattoos/Piercings 2 - (Olympic rings on ribs) (alpha symbol on forearm)

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Rowing

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? men 4x100m free sydney 2000

First Olympic Memory? sydney 2000

Most In➏䛠uential person in your career/life parents, coaches

Why this sport? love the water

Travis Mahoney

Athlete Biography

Travis Mahoney will make his Olympic debut in Rio after a breakthrough performance at the

selection trials in Adelaide on the opening night where he 倀茂nished second in the most gruelling of

events, the 400m individual medley.

Cheered on by his Nunawading teammates in the stands, Mahoney 倀茂nished in a personal best time

of 4:14.98s, behind only Thomas Fraser-Holmes.

The Melbourne swimmer made his international debut at the World Short Course Championships in

Turkey four years ago where he won bronze in the 4x100m freestyle relay and 倀茂nished 7th in the

200m backstroke.

He went on to compete at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he placed sixth in the 400m

Individual Medley and the Pan Paci倀茂c Games on the Gold Coast where he was seventh.


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Event/s 400m Individual Medley Men Height 190

Weight 81 Age 25

Born Box Hill, VIC, Australia


Georgia Bohl

Kotuku Ngawati

Keryn McMaster

James Magnussen

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Training

Coach Rohan Taylor (2009-current)

Club Nunawading Swimming club


Primary Training Base Mellbourne, Australia

Cameron McEvoy

Athlete Biography

Nicknamed the Professor, Gold Coast-based Cameron McEvoy is aiming to leave bigger and

stronger opponents in his wake at the Rio 2016 Games. After a sensational week at the trials he

was selected to race in 立ve events in Brazil: 50m, 100 and 200m freestyle, 4 x 200m freestyle Relay

and the 4 x 100m Medley Relay. In late July he withdrew from the 200m freestyle because of his

packed schedule, with David McKeon to replace him in that event.

The budding astronaut, who weighs just 73kg, smashed the Commonwealth and Australia record in

the men’s 100m freestyle at the trials in a time of 47.04. This swim was the third fastest in history,

and just 0.13 seconds outside of the world record set by Brazil's Cesar Cielo in a now-banned super-

suit in 2009. On the second last night of competition, McEvoy became the 立rst Australian man to

claim the sprint freestyle treble at the same competition in the same year when he won the 50m.

In 2015 the Gri䘀هth University physics student claimed silver in the men’s 100m freestyle at the

2015 World Championships and gold in the same event at the 2014 Pan Paci立c Championships. At

the 2011 Australian Age Championships in Adelaide, Cameron McEvoy burst into the public eye

when he eclipsed Ian Thorpe's 16 years 100m freestyle record.

McEvoy made his Olympic debut at London 2012 at the age of 17, helping qualify the 4x100m and 4

x 200m freestyle relay teams for the 立nals before Australia went on to 立nish fourth (4x100m) and

立fth (4x200m). He then went on to win six medals (2 gold, 4 silver) at the 2014 Commonwealth

Games.

McEvoy’s brilliance can be traced back to an obsession to be the most e䘀هcient as a 7-year-old,

sitting pool deck after his training at the Miami pool watching Grant Hackett, and Ian Thorpe when

he visited, and learning from their stroke technique. Coached by Richard Scarce at Bond Swimming

Club. in his spare time he does research in Theoretical Physics under a Professor at Gri䘀هth

University.

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Freestyle Relay Men, 4 x 100m Medley Relay

Men, 4 x 200m Freestyle Relay Men, 50m

Freestyle Men

Nickname Cam


Age 22 Born Gold Coast, QLD, Australia

Lives Gold Coast, QLD, Australia

Olympic Information

London 2012 - 4th (4x100m Freestyle relay); 5th (4x200m Freestyle Relay)

Recent Performances

1st (100m freestyle), 1st (200m freestyle) - 2016 Brisbane Grand Prix (Brisbane, Australia)

1st (100m freestyle), 1st (200m freestyle) – 2016 Australian Swimming Championships


1st (50m freestyle) – 2016 Australian Swimming Championships (Adelaide, Australia)

2nd (100m freestyle) – 2015 World Championships (Kazan, Russia)

2nd (100 & 200m) – 2014 Commonwealth Games (Glasgow, Great Britain)

Career Highlights

Winning silver at the 2015 FINA World Swimming Championships in the 100m Freestyle

Winning two gold medals and a silver medal at the Fina Junior World Championships in the 50m,

100m and 200m Freestyle respectively

Qualifying for the London 2012 Australian Olympic Team at 17 years of age


Education

Primary Emmanuel College (Gold Coast, Australia)

Secondary Emmanuel College (Gold Coast, Australia)

Tertiary Bachelor of Science Majoring in Applied Mathematics and Physics at Gri䘀هth University

(2013 - Current)

Training

Coach Richard Scarce (2013 - Current)

Club Bond Swimming Club

Primary Training Base Gold Coast, Australia

Q&A

Superstition/s None

Favourite food Japanese

Favourite holiday destination I have still yet to travel leisurely enough to have a favourite

destination.

Favourite music This greatly depends on mood but varies between R&B/Hip Hop, Indie Rock and

Punk Rock

Dream car Mercedes Benz G63

Personal Motto I am human and will let nothing human be alien to me.

Star Sign ARE NOT REAL

I would spend my last $10 on A bowl of Chicken Karage Curry at my favourite Japanese restaurant

Tattoos/Piercings Olympic Rings tattoo on my left hip

If I could try another Olympic sport it would be Soccer

Most Inspiring Olympic Performance? Mens 4x100m Freestyle relay in Sydney 2000

First Olympic Memory? Mens 4x100m Freestyle Relay in Sydney 2000

Most In䎘蹒uential person in your career/life My Mum

Why this sport? It's the sport the gave me the greatest pleasure

David McKeon

Athlete Biography

David McKeon, along with sister Emma, join seven other siblings on the 2016 Australian Olympic

Team. McKeon scored his spot in Rio after a strong performance in the 400m freestyle (3:45.09) on

the �rst night of the trials in Adelaide where he �nished behind a �ying Mack Horton. He was also

third in the 200m �nal to secure a Rio relay spot. After Cameron McEvoy withdrew from competing

in the 200m freestyle he was also con�rmed in that individual event.

The Brisbane based athlete made his Olympic debut at the London 2012 Games where he �nished

�fth in his heat of the 400m freestyle, before swimming in the heats of the 4 x 200m freestyle relay

that �nished �fth overall.

At the 2014 Commonwealth Games he claimed gold in the 4x200m freestyle and �nished second in

the 400m freestyle after setting world record pace throughout the race only to be overtaken in the

last lap. He went on to �nish 10th at the 2015 World Championships in the 8-lap event.

McKeon didn’t take up competitive swimming until 2010, when he was inspired by Emma after she

competed at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.

He comes from rich swimming pedigree. His father Ron swam at the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games

and won four Commonwealth Games gold medals. His mother Susie was a Commonwealth Games

swimmer and her brother, Rob Woodhouse, swam at the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Games, winning

bronze in Los Angeles.


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Freestyle Relay Men, 400m Freestyle Men

Nickname Dave


Age 23 Born Wollongong, NSW, Australia

Lives Wollongong, NSW, Australia


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Brittany Elmslie

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Career Highlights

Winning gold at the 2011 World University Games in the men's 400m freestyle

Education

Primary The Illawarra Grammar School (NSW, Australia)

Secondary The Illawarra Grammar School (NSW, Australia)

Tertiary Public Health - The University of Wollongong

Training

Coach Ron McKeon (2011 - 2013) Vince Raleigh (2014- Current)


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