Brenton Rickard
Personal information | |
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Full name | Brenton Scott Rickard |
National team | Australia |
Born | Brisbane, Queensland | 19 October 1983
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
Weight | 92 kg (203 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Swimming |
Strokes | Breaststroke |
Club | Brothers |
Coach | Vince Raleigh |
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Medal record |
Brenton Scott Rickard[1] (born 19 October 1983) is a retired breaststroke swimmer from Australia.[2] He emerged at the international level in 2006, swimming at the Commonwealth games. He has captured multiple Olympic and World Championship medals, as well as world and Commonwealth records. During this period he was coached by Vince Raleigh.
In 2009, he was Australian Institute of Sport Athlete of the Year.[3]
Olympic Games[]
He arrived in Beijing as a medal contender and a serious threat for the gold medal in all three of his events. He set Australian, Commonwealth and Oceanic records, capturing silver medals in the 200-metre breaststroke and 4×100-metre medley relay, and finished 5th in the 100-metre breaststroke.
- Beijing Olympics in Beijing, China:
- 200-metre breaststroke.
- 4×100-metre medley relay.
- (5th) 100-metre breaststroke.
FINA World Championships[]
Rickard's first World Championships were a good one, consistently capturing medals in all of his pet events. No Australian records were set, however his status in the world rankings leapfrogged.
- FINA World Championships 2007 in Melbourne, Australia:
- 200-metre breaststroke.
- 100-metre breaststroke.
- 4×100-metre medley relay.
In the final of the 100-metre breaststroke, Rickard won the gold medal and surpassed the old world record of 58.91 held by Kosuke Kitajima with a time of 58.58.[4]
- FINA World Championships 2009 in Rome, Italy:
- 100-metre breaststroke.
- 4×100-metre medley relay.
- (5th) 200-metre breaststroke.
Career best times[]
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Doping Allegations[]
In 2020, the IOC began proceedings in the Court of Arbitration of Sport to void Rickard's results from the 2012 London Olympics[5] after his urine samples from that competition tested positive for furosemide, a banned diuretic. If the IOC's findings are upheld, six Australian swimmers would be stripped of their bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m medley,[6] in which Rickard swam the breaststroke leg of the heat. The proceedings were withdrawn on August 24th, 2021.[7]
See also[]
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- List of world records in swimming
- List of Commonwealth records in swimming
- List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)
- World record progression 100 metres breaststroke
References[]
- ^ "Results – Tuesday 5 October". BBC Sport. 5 October 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
- ^ "Brenton Rickard – Biography". Australian Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 23 July 2008. Retrieved 20 June 2008.
- ^ Australian Institute of Sport Athlete of the Year Archived 26 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Rickard sets 1st world record of Day 2". The Associated Press. 27 July 2009. Retrieved 28 July 2009.
- ^ https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/nov/06/brenton-rickard-australian-olympic-swimmer-reveals-positive-drug-test-eight-years-after-london-games
- ^ https://www.smh.com.au/sport/swimming/australia-s-proud-anti-doping-record-gets-that-sinking-feeling-20201107-p56cf7.html
- ^ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-24/ioc-drops-doping-case-against-australian-swimmer-brenton-rickard/100403634
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- 1983 births
- Living people
- Australian male breaststroke swimmers
- Olympic silver medalists for Australia
- Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Olympic swimmers of Australia
- Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers from Brisbane
- Australian Institute of Sport swimmers
- World record setters in swimming
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Swimmers at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in swimming
- Commonwealth Games medallists in swimming