2016
Search results
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.
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, with Ian ...
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'. With coach Dean Boxall's athletes Ariarne Titmus and Mollie O'Callaghan tipped to take out gold and silver in the women's 200m ...
Racing in the 400m freestyle, he won the gold medal by breaking his own world record. An hour after this triumph, Thorpe swam the anchor leg for Australia in the 4x100m freestyle relay. He came from behind to barely beat Gary Hall, Jr. of the United States in a thrilling finish.
As the Australian Olympic Trials get set to begin, it's been 20 years since legend Ian Thorpe tumbled off the starting blocks.
Australia's Ian Thorpe is quite simply a swimming legend. After becoming a world champion at the age of 15, he won the first three of his five Olympic gold medals as a 17-year-old at the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
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.
Ian THORPE. Nationality. AUS. Discipline. Swimming. AQUA and Olympic medals 56 46 Gold. 8 Silver. 2 Bronze. Results Medals Profile Personal Best Results. Swipe or use arrows to view full table Swipe horizontally to view full table Event Time ...
Ian Thorpe first came to International prominence at the 1997 Pan-Pacific meet when he finished second in the 400 freestyle. He was then 14 years old. At the 1998 World Championships he won both the 200 and 400 freestyle, and was the media darling of Australia going into the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Related searches
Movies & TV Shows
