Birthdate: October 13,1982.
Birth place: Sydney, Australia.
Nick Names: Thorpedo.
Height: 6'5
Weight: 229 lbs.
Foot size: size 17.
Club: SLC Aquadot.
Achievements:
- World Championships, Perth (1998), won 400m freestyle
- Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur 1998: 4 Gold medals (200m free, 400m free, 2x200m freestyle relay, 4x100m freestyle relay
- Pacific Championships 1999: New world record, 400m freestyle, broke world record for the 200m freestyle twice in consecutive days
- Australian Olympic Swim Trials 2000: bettered own 400m freestyle mark, lowered the 200m freestyle world record twice again
- Sydney Olympic Results, 2000
- 200 meter freestyle (1 min 45.83 secs), 2nd
- 400 meter freestyle (3 mins 40.59 secs), 1st
- 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay (3 mins 13.67 secs), 1st
- 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay (7 mins 7.05 secs), 1st
- 4 x 100 meter medley relay (3 mins 35.27 secs), 2nd
- Athens Olympics Results, 2004:
- 400m freestyle, 1st, 3:43.10
- 4 x 100m freestyle relay, 6th, 48.14 (3:15.77)
- 200m freestyle, 1st, 1:44.71 (Olympic record)
- 4 x 200m freestyle relay, 2nd, 1:44.18 (7:07.46)
- 100m freestyle, 3rd, 48.56
- On November 21 2006 he announced his retirement from swimming after 10 years on the Australian team, citing that he has lost the desire, and "there are things in my life that are more important to me and I have to pursue them now".
- At the age of 14, he became the youngest male ever to represent Australia, and his victory in the 400 metre freestyle at the 1998 Perth World Championships made him the youngest ever individual male World Champion.
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